Jean Ragnotti

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Jean "Jeannot" Ragnotti (born August 29, 1945 in Pernes-les-Fontaines near Carpentras ) is a former French rally and circuit racing driver .

Career

Jean Ragnotti began rallying in the late 1960s. His first racing car was a Renault R8 Gordini . In 1970 he finished second overall in the French Rally Championship and made a name for himself for the first time. Over the years, the French established himself as an all-round driver. After a few years in monoposto racing - in 1975 he was runner-up in the European Formula Renault Championship - he returned to rallying in 1976 and also began to regularly drive sports car races. He proved his versatility in 1977 by winning the French Rallycross Championship, which he had dominated with a Renault Alpine A310 V6 .

In 1975 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , where he finished fourth in the overall standings in 1977 and 1978. However, he celebrated his greatest successes in the 1980s in the World Rally Championship . As a Renault factory driver, he won three world championship races. In 1981 he secured the overall ranking of the prestigious Monte Carlo Rally on a Renault 5 Turbo . In 1982 and 1985, Ragnotti won the Tour de Corse . In 1985 he won the so-called R5 Maxi Turbo , one of the most powerful rally cars of the time. In 1984 and 1985 he won the overall ranking of the Tour de France for automobiles with the R5 Turbo .

Until the end of his career, in the mid-1990s, Ragnotti kept switching between circuit racing and rally slopes. In 1989 he was touring car champion in his home country and in 1994 he celebrated his seventh French rally championship.

A racing car was also named after Jean Ragnotti: the Clio Renault Sport 2.0L Jean Ragnotti .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1975	Philippe Mettetal	Tecma PHM755	Michel Lateste			failure	ignition
1977	Inaltera	Inaltera LM77	Jean Rondeau			4th place and class win
1978	Ecurie Calberson	Alpine A442A	Jean-Pierre Jabouille	José Dolhem	Guy Fréquelin	Rank 4
1979	VSD Canon Jean Rondeau	Rondeau M379	Bernard Darniche			Rank 5
1980	Jean Rondeau ITT Le Point	Rondeau M379B	Henri Pescarolo			failure	overheated cylinder
1981	Calberson Jean Rondeau	Rondeau M379	Jean-Louis Lafosse			failure	fatal accident in Lafosse
1982	Jean Rondeau Automobiles	Rondeau M382	Jean Rondeau	Henri Pescarolo		failure	Engine failure

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissedre: 24 hours of mans . 1923-1992. 2 volumes. Édition d'Art JB Barthelemy, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

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