Joël Laplacette

The Porsche 930 of Joël Laplacette, Antoine Salamin , Yves Courage and Gérard Vial at the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1978

Joël Laplacette (* in Le Mans ) is a former French car racing driver and motorsport official.

Racing career

Joël Laplacette entertained a small racing team in the 1970s and went with racing cars of Porsche in 24-hour race at Le Mans at the start. He made his debut in 1975 when he and Claude Pigeon and Alain Leroux were partners in a Porsche 911 Carrera RS and achieved 25th place overall. He achieved the best placement of his four races in Le Mans the following year with 17th place.

In the same year was for the World Sportscar Championship scoring 6-hour race at Dijon total Fifteenth.

Motorsport official and organizer

After the end of his career, Laplacette worked in various motorsport functions. For many years he was the press spokesman for the Automobile Club de l'Ouest for the Le Mans 24-hour race and other sports car events, as well as an official of the French motorsport association . He was also the long-standing president of the Concours d'Élégance de La Baule , a competition for historic vehicles with an extraordinary development history.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1975	Joël Laplacette	Porsche 911 Carrera RS	Claude Pigeon	Alain Leroux		Rank 25
1976	Joël Laplacette	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Georges Bourdillat	Alain Leroux		Rank 17
1977	Joël Laplacette	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Yves Courage	André Gahinet		failure	Constant velocity joint
1978	Joël Laplacette	Porsche 930	Yves Courage	Antoine Salamin	Gérard Vial	failure	accident

Web links

Commons : Joël Laplacette  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Joël Laplacette at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 6-hour race of Dijon 1976
2. ↑ 87th Concours d'Élégance de La Baule 2017
3. ↑ 87th Concours d'Élégance de La Baule 2017