Michel Leclère

Michel Leclère

Nation:	France
Automobile world championship
First start:	1975 USA Grand Prix
Last start:	1976 French Grand Prix
Constructors
1975  Elf Team Tyrrell 1976 Walter Wolf Racing
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 7th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Michel Leclère (born March 18, 1946 in Mantes-la-Jolie ) is a former French racing driver .

Career

Michel Leclère finished the Formula Renault Championship in 1971 in second place overall and won the French Formula 3 Championship a year later . In the following two years he was one of the top drivers in Formula 2 and won the races in Rouen , Zolder and Silverstone .

This strong performance enabled him to get into Formula 1 for the first time in 1975 . Ken Tyrrell gave him a factory Tyrrell 007 for the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen . Leclère retired prematurely with engine failure.

This was followed by an annual contract with the British team Walter Wolf Racing , which had emerged from the Frank Williams Racing Cars team and was operated by Frank Williams together with Walter Wolf . The Williams FW05 was a technically inferior vehicle with which Leclère mostly struggled to qualify. The eleventh places in the world championship races in Belgium and Monaco were the best results of the year. In the middle of the season he had to leave the team and returned to Formula 2.

After a catastrophic Formula 2 season with the Willi Kauhsen Racing Team in 1977, the Frenchman's career stalled. He was unable to return to Formula 1 and after a few sports car races and others at Le Mans at the 24-hour race , he retired from racing in the early 1980s.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
1975
														DNF
1976
		13	DNQ	10	11	11	DNF	13

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1974	Automobiles Ligier	Ligier JS2	Guy Chasseuil		failure	Engine failure
1977	Gran Touring Cars Inc.	Mirage GR8	Sam Posey		failure	fuel pump
1978	Gran Touring Cars Inc.	Mirage M9	Sam Posey		failure	Electrics
1979	JMS Racing Charles Pozzi	Ferrari 512 BB LM	Claude Ballot-Léna	Peter Gregg	failure	accident

literature

• Rainer W. Schlegelmilch: Portraits of the 60s Formula I. Könemann, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-89508-047-0 .
• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

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