Marcel Mignot

The BMW Art Car designed by Roy Lichtenstein , driven by Hervé Poulain and Marcel Mignot in the 1977 Le Mans 24-hour race

The BMW M1 - Art Car with the paint job by Andy Warhol . Poulain, Manfred Winkelhock and Mignot achieved sixth place with the car in the 1979 Le Mans 24-hour race

Marcel Mignot (born June 11, 1944 in Martigné-Ferchaud ) is a former French racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Marcel Mignot achieved international fame by participating in the Le Mans 24-hour race several times . He had his first start at Le Mans in 1972 in a Porsche 911 . After a defect in the power transmission, he could not finish the race. He reached his first finish a year later with 17th place overall.

The BMW Art Cars attracted a great deal of attention far beyond motorsport at Le Mans in the 1970s . The idea for these vehicles came from the French art auctioneer and racing driver Hervé Poulain , who drove a BMW 3.0 CSL painted by Alexander Calder at Le Mans in 1975 . The first Art Car with the Mignot to start at Le Mans was the BMW 320i painted by Roy Lichtenstein , with which he and Poulain finished ninth in the overall standings. In 1979 he contested the 24-hour race with the Andy Warhol - BMW M1 . In addition to Poulain, Manfred Winkelhock was the third driver to drive the car . The trio reached the final sixth place.

Mignot drove at Le Mans until 1982 ; the sixth place in 1979 remained the best result in the final classification. At the Sebring 12-hour race in 1975 , he finished ninth in a Ferrari 365 GTB / 4 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1972	René Mazzia	Porsche 911	Pierre Mauroy		failure	Power transmission
1973	René Mazzia	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Pierre Mauroy		Rank 17
1974	Marcel Mignot	Ferrari 365 GTB / 4	Harry Jones		Rank 16
1975	Marcel Mignot	Ferrari 365 GTB / 4	Harry Jones	Philippe Gurdjian	Rank 13
1976	NASCAR - Junie Donlavey	Ford Torino	Dick Brooks	Dick Hutcherson	failure	Gearbox damage
1977	Marcel Mignot	BMW 320i	Hervé Poulain		Rank 9
1978	Auto Daniel Urcun	Porsche 934	Jean-Claude Lefebvre	Guy Chasseuil	failure	Engine failure
1979	Hervé Poulain	BMW M1	Hervé Poulain	Manfred Winkelhock	Rank 6
1980	BMW France	BMW M1	Didier Pironi	Dieter Quester	Rank 14
1981	Preston Henn Racing	Porsche 935K3	Michael Chandler	Preston Henn	failure	Ignition damage
1982	Goodrich Corporation	Porsche 924 Carrera GTR	Doc Bundy	Jim Busby	16th place and class win

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1975	Jones Motorsports	Ferrari 365 GTB / 4	Harry Jones	Rank 9

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909413-06-3 .

Web links

• Marcel Mignot at the Driver Database