Johnny Rives

The CD SP66 , with Johnny Rives and Georges Heligouin at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans were at the start

Jean "Johnny" Rives (born December 9, 1936 in Toulon ) is a French motorsport journalist who was also active as a rally co-driver and car racing driver.

Life

Johnny Rives has been a motorsport journalist for the French sports newspaper L'Équipe since 1960 . Rives also works as a television commentator for the French television broadcaster TF1 . Rives has also published several papers on motorsport, including a biography of Alain Prost in 1988 .

In the 1970s, Rives was also hired as a co-pilot. He twice won the Tour de France for automobiles as a co- driver . After a second place in 1970 , he won 1971 with Gérard Larrousse on a Matra MS650 and 1974 , again with Larrousse and Jean-Pierre Nicolas as second driver, on a Ligier JS2 .

Rives was also active as a driver. In 1966, he started for the team of Charles German at the 24-hour race at Le Mans , but fell by an accident of. In 1967 , when he raced for the second time at Le Mans, he missed qualifying.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1966	SEC Automobiles CD	CD SP66	Georges Heligouin	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13
1966	Charles German	CD SP66	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
									DNF

Selected Works

• Johnny Rives, Gérard Flocon, Christian Moity: La Fabuleuse Histoire de la Formule 1. La Martinière, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-7324-2198-7 .
• Johnny Rives, Anne Giuntini, Arnaud Chambert-Protat: Les grands constructeurs dans la course. 1989–1999 (= 50 ans de Formule 1, 5). ETAI, Boulogne 2002, ISBN 2-7268-8478-4 .
• Johnny Rives: C'était ça, ma guerre ... récit. Audibert, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84749-063-9 .
• Johnny Rives: La Gueule du Diable. Drivers, Toulouse 2005 ISBN 2-35124-004-9 .

Web links

Commons : Johnny Rives  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Johnny Rives in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• Johnny Rives at Racing Sports Cars