Marcel Tarrès
Marcel Tarrès-Sala (born June 21, 1951 in Saint-Gaudens ) is a former French racing driver .
Racing career
Marcel Tarrès was born in the south of France, in the Haute-Garonne department . After leaving school, he worked for a pulp production company and moved to Belgium in the early 1970s , where the company had a branch. He played first race on a Mini Cooper S , which he in 1976 with a Formula 3 - Alpine replaced. In 1977 and 1978 he won the Belgian hill climb championship with the car . When Tarrès returned to France in 1979 to be a professional car driver, he had a Belgian driver's license, which earned him the name “The Belgian” in the specialist press.
Marcel Tarrès is the most successful hill climber in French motorsport history. Between 1982 and 1993 he won the overall ranking of the French Mountain Championship ten times . During these years he dominated this championship in Martini monoposto vehicles . Only in 1987 did he have to let Daniel Boccard go first in the final championship. At many races in France he is the record holder of racing successes. Despite thirty race victories in the sports car class of the European Hill Climb Championship , he was never able to win the overall championship there and regularly had to admit defeat to Mauro Nesti .
In the early 1980s, Tarrès completed a few races in Formula 2 . In the Formula 2 European Championship in 1984 he went into the race with a Martini at the Grand Prix de Pau , but could not classify. Tarrès was also active and successful in sports car racing. Three times, 1991.1993 and 1994, he became a French sports car champion and won in 1999 together with Jean-François Hemroulle and Tim Verbergt on a Audi A4 , the 24 Hours of Zolder . He drove the Le Mans 24-hour race twice, in 1979 and 1991 . He couldn't classify himself in either of the two missions.
statistics
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 |
 Chevalley Racing Switzerlan
|
Chevron B36 |
 Alain Dechelette
|
Charles Dechelette
|
failure | accident |
| 1991 |
Team Salamin Primagaz
|
Porsche 962C |
 Max Cohen-Olivar
|
Antoine Salamin
|
failure | Motor overheated |
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tarrès, Marcel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tarrès-Sala, Marcel (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 21, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Gaudens |