Juan Barazi

Juan Barazi (left) at Le Mans in 2009

The Zytek 07S / 2 of Juan Barazi, Michael Vergers and Fernando Rees at the 2008 Silverstone 1000 km race

Juan Barazi (born January 22, 1968 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish lawyer, entrepreneur, racing team owner and former racing car driver .

Family, education and entrepreneurship

Juan Barazi comes from a widely ramified Kurdish - Syrian family. One of his relatives was Muhsin al-Barazi , Prime Minister of the Syrian Republic in the 1940s . Al-Barazi was executed in 1949 after a failed coup . Juan Barazi graduated in law in Switzerland and worked as an investor in the African mining business . He lives in the Angolan capital Luanda .

Racing career

After starting out in karting , Barazi began his monoposto career in the British Formula Ford Championship , which he finished second overall in 1999. However, Barazi became known as a GT and sports car driver . In 2005 he contested his first full season in the European Le Mans Series and made his debut at the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Le Mans . He celebrated his first major success in 2006 , when he finished second overall in the 1000 km race in Istanbul with Michael Vergers and Jean-Philippe Belloc in the Courage C65 behind Emmanuel Collard and Jean-Christophe Boullion in the Pescarolo C60 . At the end of the year he and his partner Vergers won the LMP2 overall ranking of the Le Mans Series.

In 2007 he finished third in the LMP2 overall ranking of this racing series. Barazi competed at Le Mans six times in his career. He last competed in the 24-hour race in western France in 2010 . Together with Darren Turner and Sam Hancock he drove a Lola-Aston Martin LMP1 . In the last hour of the race the car, in fourth place in the overall standings, retired with engine damage. At the end of the year he ended his career as a driver.

Barazi epsilon

In 2000 Barazi founded its own racing team, which in 2005 became Barazi-Epsilon . Michel Lecomte had left Epsilon Euskadi and joined Barazi as a partner this year. The team was active in various racing series such as the European Le Mans Series, the British Formula 3 Championship and the Superleague Formula until 2010 .

Automobile collection

Juan Barazi owns several historic racing cars. The collection includes an Aston Martin DB3S , an Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato , a Ferrari 250LM , a Porsche 917 and a Jaguar E-Type Lightweight .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2005	Intersport Racing	Courage C65	Bastien Brière	Sergei Zlobin	failure	suspension
2006	Barazi epsilon	Courage C65	Michael Vergers	Neil Cunningham	Rank 21
2007	Barazi epsilon	Zytek 07S / 2	Michael Vergers	Karim Ojjeh	failure	accident
2008	Barazi epsilon	Zytek 07S / 2	Michael Vergers	Stuart Moseley	Rank 29
2009	Barazi epsilon	Zytek 07S / 2	Phil Bennett	Stuart Moseley	Rank 28
2010	Aston Martin Racing	Lola-Aston Martin LMP1	Darren Turner	Sam Hancock	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Team colleague	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2005	IN2 Racing	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Michael Vergers	Andrew Thompson	Rank 16
2006	Barazi Epsilon	Courage C65	Michael Vergers	Elton Julian	Rank 15
2008	Barazi Epsilon	Zytek 07S	Michael Vergers	Jean-Christophe Ravier	failure	accident

Web links

Commons : Juan Barazi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Juan Barazi at the Driver Database
• Juan Barazi at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About the family of Juan Barazi
2. ↑ Istanbul 1000 km race 2006
3. ↑ Le Mans Series 2006
4. ↑ Le Mans Series 2007