Jesús Pareja

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The Porsche 962 from Brun Motorsport with which Jesús Pareja competed in the 1990 World Sports Car Championship ...
... and the emergency vehicle of 1991

Jesús Pareja-Mayo (born March 6, 1955 in Guadalajara ) is a former Spanish car racing driver and motorsport official.

Racing career

Jesús Pareja began his career in 1976 in Spanish touring car racing, where he won the championship in his home country in 1981. After a few years in various one-make cups - including tenth overall in the Alfasprint European Cup in 1983 - he entered the sports car world championship in 1984 .

In 1985 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , where he competed 13 times in a row up to 1997 . In sports car races celebrated a total of four overall and two class wins. He achieved his first overall victory at the 360 km race in Jerez in 1986 , a race in the sports car world championship of that year ; Partner in the Brun - Porsche 962 was Oscar Larrauri . In 1994 he won the 4-hour race at Paul Ricard , the 4-hour race at Jarama and the 1,000-km race at Suzuka . All races counted towards this year's BPR Global GT Series and his teammates in the Porsche 911 Turbo S LM were Bob Wollek , Jean-Pierre Jarier and Dominique Dupuy .

At his debut in Le Mans in 1985 he reached eighth place and in 1986 with Joël Gouhier and Oscar Larrauri in a Porsche 962 he came second in the final classification; that was his best position in the final classification of the 24-hour race in western France. In 1988 he was seventh and in 1994 eighth overall.

The 1990 Montreal accident

The 480 km race in Montreal was the eighth and penultimate race of the 1990 World Sports Car Championship and took place on the Gilles-Villeneuve Circuit in early September . After almost a third of the race, a Jaguar XJR-11 tore a needle cover from its anchorage and threw it into the air. The following Pareja in the Porsche 962C registered by Brun Motorsport could no longer avoid the cover; this broke through the windshield of the Porsche and subsequently the tank. The Porsche crashed into a wall on the left in the direction of travel and went up in flames. Miraculously, except for a few bruises, Pareja was virtually unharmed. Although the cockpit was very narrow, the manhole cover missed the driver by millimeters. Rapidly engaging marshals opened the driver's door and freed the pilot from the burning race car.

After the incident, those responsible at the FIA decided to weld all manhole covers on racetracks with public road sections before the respective races.

Motorsport official

After the end of his active career in 1997, Pareja worked for many years in the event management of motorsport events. He organized the races of the International GT Open and was a long-time official of the Formula 3 Euro Series .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1985 GermanyGermany Obermaier Racing Porsche 956 GermanyGermany Jürgen Lässig BelgiumBelgium Hervé Regout Rank 8
1986 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Brun Motorsport Porsche 962C FranceFrance Joël Gouhier ArgentinaArgentina Oscar Larrauri Rank 2
1987 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Brun Motorsport Porsche 962C GermanyGermany Uwe Schäfer ArgentinaArgentina Oscar Larrauri failure accident
1988 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Repsol Brun Motorsport Porsche 962C GermanyGermany Uwe Schäfer ItalyItaly Massimo Sigala Rank 7
1989 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Repsol Brun Motorsport Porsche 962C SwitzerlandSwitzerland Walter Brun ArgentinaArgentina Oscar Larrauri failure Engine failure
1990 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Brun Motorsport Porsche 962C SwitzerlandSwitzerland Walter Brun ArgentinaArgentina Oscar Larrauri failure Engine failure
1991 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Repsol Brun Motorsport Porsche 962C SwitzerlandSwitzerland Walter Brun ArgentinaArgentina Oscar Larrauri Rank 10
1992 NetherlandsNetherlands Euro Racing Lola T92 / 10 NetherlandsNetherlands Charles Zwolsman senior NetherlandsNetherlands Cor Euser failure Gearbox damage
1993 FranceFrance Jack Leconte Porsche 911 Carrera RSR FranceFrance Pierre de Thoisy FranceFrance Jack Leconte Rank 16
1994 FranceFrance Larbre Compétition Porsche 911 Carrera RSR FranceFrance Dominique Dupuy SpainSpain Carlos Palau Rank 8 and class win
1995 FranceFrance Larbre Compétiton Porsche 911 GT2 FranceFrance Érik Comas FranceFrance Jean-Pierre Jarier failure accident
1996 GermanyGermany Roock Racing Team Porsche 911 GT2 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Dominic Chappell FranceFrance Jean-Pierre Jarier failure Engine failure
1997 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Pacific Racing Ltd. BRM P301 ChileChile Eliseo Salazar FinlandFinland Harri Toivonen failure Engine failure

literature

  • Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Jesús Pareja  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Alfasprint European Cup 1983
  2. ^ Jerez 360 km race in 1986
  3. Paul Ricard's 4-hour race in 1994
  4. ^ 4 Hours of Jarama 1994
  5. Suzuka 1000 km race in 1994
  6. Jump up ↑ 480km Montreal 1990