Patrice Goueslard

Larbre Compétition Porsche 911 GT2; the emergency vehicle with which Patrice Goueslard started in the 1997 French GT championship

Goueslard and Guillaume Moreau's Alphand Chevrolet Corvette C6.R at the 2008 Silverstone 1000 km race

Patrice Goueslard (born November 26, 1965 in Caen ) is a French racing driver .

Career

Monoposto

Patrice Goueslard's career began in 1990 in the French Formula Renault championship . He drove in this monoposto series for four years and tried to gain a foothold in motorsport. After he was only 18th in the overall ranking in 1992 (Master Jean-Philippe Belloc ), in 1993 he climbed to 11th place in the final ranking (Master David Dussau ). After the end of the 1993 season, Goueslard decided against continuing the monoposto attempts and turned to GT and sports car racing .

GT and sports cars

In his almost two decades-long career in GT and sports car racing, Goueslard developed into one of the most successful French sports car drivers of the 1990s and 2000s. He celebrated 17 overall and 21 class wins. It made its first appearance in the most important sports car race of the year, the Le Mans 24-hour race . In 1994 he started for the team of Swiss driver Olivier Haberthur , but dropped out prematurely due to damage to the turbocharger. In 1995 and the following year he was a regular starter in the French Porsche Carrera Cup, where he finished fourth in the overall standings in 1996 behind Christophe Bouchut , Dominique Dupuy and Jean-Pierre Jarier .

1996 was the start of the collaboration with Jack Leconte , the owner of Larbre Compétition , with a commitment in the BPR Global GT Series . His best result of the season was third overall with partner André Ahrlé in the 4 Hours of Le Mans .

In 1997 the season began for Gouselard with fourth place in the Daytona 24-hour race , with the partners Ralf Kelleners , Claudia Hürtgen and Ahrle in a Porsche 911 GT2 registered by Roock Racing and won the GT2 class. The biggest success of the year was the overall victory in the French GT Championship, also known as the FFSA GT Championship , a racing series that ended after the end of the BPR Global GT Series in 1996.

From 1998 until 2005 he competed for Jack Leconte in Le Mans every year. The best place in this phase of his career at the 24-hour race in western France was 10th in 2001 . He had already achieved the best result of his motorsport time in these races in 1997 , when Armin Hahne and Pedro Lamy drove the Schübel Engineering Porsche 911 GT1 to fifth place in the classification.

After a third overall place in 1998 and the runner-up in 1999 behind Jean-Pierre Javier, he secured the overall ranking of the NGT class of the FIA GT championship in 2000 . Another runner-up in the GT championship of France followed in 2001 ; this time behind Dominique Dupuy. Overall victories in the championship in 2002 and 2003 followed.

After the end of the collaboration with Leconte, Groueslard switched to the racing team of the former Ski World Cup winner Luc Alphand in 2006 . For Alphand he won the overall standings in the GT1 class of the Le Mans Series in 2008 and 2009 . The emergency vehicle was a Chevrolet Corvette C6.R , team partner in 2008 was Guillaume Moreau and in 2009 Yann Clairay . At the beginning of the 2010s he competed in the Blancpain Endurance Series , where he had his last race appearance so far in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring in 2013 . According to his own statements, the sponsorship funds to continue his career have been missing since 2014.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1994	Eleven Haberthur Racing	Porsche 911 3.6	Olivier Haberthur	Patrick Vuillaume	failure	turbocharger
1996	Larbre Compétition	Porsche 911 GT2	André Ahrlé	Patrick Bourdais	Rank 20
1997	Schübel Engineering	Porsche 911 GT1	Armin Hahne	Pedro Lamy	Rank 5
1998	Société Labre Compétition	Porsche 911 GT2	Pierre Yver	Jean-Luc Chéreau	failure	accident
1999	Ets. Chéreau Sports	Porsche 911 GT2	Pierre Yver	Jean-Luc Chéreau	not classified
2000	Larbre Compétition	Porsche 996 GT3-R	Christophe Bouchut	Jean-Luc Chéreau	failure	accident
2001	Larbre Compétition	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Sébastien Dumez	Jean-Luc Chéreau	Rank 10
2002	Larbre Compétition	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Christophe Bouchut	Vincent Vosse	Rank 18
2003	Larbre Compétition	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Christophe Bouchut	Steve Zacchia	Rank 16
2004	Larbre Compétition	Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello	Christophe Bouchut	Olivier Dupard	Rank 14
2005	Larbre Compétition	Ferrari 550 GTS Maranello	Vincent Vosse	Olivier Dupard	Rank 12
2006	Luc Alphand Aventures	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	Jérôme Policand	Luc Alphand	Rank 7
2007	Luc Alphand Aventures	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Jérôme Policand	Luc Alphand	Rank 12
2008	Luc Alphand Aventures	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Jean-Luc Blanchemain	Laurent Pasquali	Rank 21
2009	Luc Alphand Aventures	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Stéphan Grégoire	Luc Alphand	failure	accident
2010	Luc Alphand Aventures	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Julien Jousse	Xavier Maassen	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2001	Larbre Compétition	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Christophe Bouchut	Sébastien Dumez	Rank 13

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre: 24 heures du Mans 1994 . Éditions IHM, Brussels 1994, ISBN 2-930120-00-2 .

Web links

• Patrice Goueslard at the Driver Database
• Patrice Goueslard at Racing Spors Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ French Formula Renault Championship 1992
2. ^ French Formula Renault Championship 1993
3. ^ French Porsche Carrera Cup 1996
4. ^ 4 Hours of Le Mans 1996
5. ↑ 1997 Daytona 24 Hours
6. ^ French GT Championship 1997
7. ^ French GT Championship 1998
8. ↑ French GT Championship 1999
9. ↑ French GT Championship 2001
10. ↑ French GT Championship 2002
11. ↑ French GT Championship 2003
12. ↑ Goueslard on his future (French) ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.