Laurent Aïello

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Laurent Aïello
Aïello in the Audi TT-R (2002)
Nation: FranceFrance France
DTM
First race: Hockenheimring I 2000
Last race: Hockenheimring II 2005
Teams (manufacturers)
2000–2003 Abt ( Audi ) • 2004 Phoenix • 2005 Holzer ( Opel )
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR
59 (58) 7th 6th -
Podiums: 12
Overall wins: 1 ( 2002 )
Points: 224
Template: Infobox DTM driver / maintenance / old parameters

Laurent Aïello (born May 23, 1969 in Fontenay-aux-Roses ) is a former French car racing driver .

Career

Aïello became known as the champion of various touring car championships in France in 1994, Germany in 1997 and Great Britain in 1999 and the victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1998. From 2000 to 2003 he drove in the DTM for the Abt Sportsline team with the initially hopeless inferior Abbot Audi TT-R. After a mediocre year 2000, he achieved the first victories for his team in 2001. In 2002 he won the title in this series before record champion Bernd Schneider . In 2003 he won another race at the Nürburgring and announced his move to Opel at the end of the season . He was looking for a new challenge and regretted not having left the Abt Sportsline team after his 2002 title. From 2004 he competed in the DTM for the Opel Phoenix Racing team.

After two rather disappointing years (2004/2005), which was more down to his vehicle (Opel Vectra GTS) and less to his ability, he finally retired from motorsport on September 17, 2005 as part of the DTM race at the Euro Speedway Lausitz Known at the end of the 2005 season.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
1998 GermanyGermany Porsche AG Porsche 911 GT1 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Allan McNish FranceFrance Stéphane Ortelli Overall victory
1999 GermanyGermany Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R8R ItalyItaly Rinaldo Capello ItalyItaly Michele Alboreto Rank 4
2000 GermanyGermany Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R8 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Allan McNish FranceFrance Stéphane Ortelli Rank 2
2001 United StatesUnited States Audi Sport North America Audi R8 ItalyItaly Rinaldo Capello ItalyItaly Christian Pescatori Rank 2

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2001 United StatesUnited States Audi Sport North America Audi R8 ItalyItaly Rinaldo Capello ItalyItaly Michele Alboreto Overall victory

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