Joël Gouhier

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Joël Gouhier's first racing car was a Renault 8 Gordini

Joël Gouhier (born October 22, 1949 in Trizay-Coutretot-Saint-Serge ) is a former French racing driver .

Racing career

Joël Gouhier's first racing car was a Renault 8 Gordini , with which he competed in local automobile slaloms in the early 1970s . He contested his first circuit races in the Renault 5 Eurocup and in 1977 won the overall standings of the French Formula Renault championship after five victories this season . In the following two years he finished the championship in second overall; 1978 behind Philippe Alliot and 1979 behind Alain Ferté .

At the beginning of the 1980s he left the monoposto sport and returned to the Renault 5 Eurocup. In 1982 he was the overall winner of the R5 Turbo Eurocup ahead of Massimo Sigala , Jean Ragnotti and Jan Lammers and finished the series as runner-up one year later behind Lammes.

In 1983 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans as partner of Anne-Charlotte Verney and Vic Elford on a Rondeau M379 . In the 24-hour race in western France he had started six times by the end of his career. He achieved his best position in the final classification in 1986 when he finished second overall with Jesús Pareja and Oscar Larrauri in a Porsche 962C from Brun Motorsport . At the finish line, the trio was eight laps behind the winners Derek Bell , Hans-Joachim Stuck and Al Holbert in the -962C.

In addition to his involvement in sports car races, he drove for many years in various Renault Cup series and for several years drove one of the safety cars at Le Mans. After the end of the 1994 season, he retired from active racing.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1983 FranceFrance Jean Rondeau Ford France Rondeau M379 FranceFrance Anne-Charlotte Verney United KingdomUnited Kingdom Vic Elford failure suspension
1984 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Brun Motorsport Porsche 956 ItalyItaly Massimo Sigala ArgentinaArgentina Oscar Larrauri Rank 7
1985 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Brun Motorsport Porsche 962C BelgiumBelgium Didier Theys FranceFrance Walter Brun failure accident
1986 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Brun Motorsport Porsche 962C SpainSpain Jesús Pareja ArgentinaArgentina Oscar Larrauri Rank 2
1993 MonacoMonaco Monaco Media International Porsche Carrera RSR GermanyGermany Jürgen Barth FranceFrance Dominique Dupuy 15th place and class win
1994 SpainSpain Repsol Ferrari Espana Ferrari 348LM ItalyItaly Fabio Mancini ArgentinaArgentina Oscar Larrauri failure fuel pump

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ French Formula Renault Championship 1977
  2. ^ French Formula Renault Championship 1978
  3. ^ French Formula Renault Championship 1979
  4. ↑ Reanult-5 turbo Eurocup 1982
  5. ↑ Renault 5 Turbo Eurocup 1983
personal data
SURNAME Gouhier, Joël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Trizay-Coutretot-Saint-Serge