Paul Belmondo

Paul Belmondo

Nation:	France
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1992 Spanish Grand Prix
Last start:	1994 Spanish Grand Prix
Constructors
1992  March • 1994  Pacific
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 7th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Paul Alexandre Belmondo (born April 23, 1963 in Boulogne-Billancourt , Île-de-France ) is a former French racing car driver and racing team owner who drove in Formula 1 for March Engineering and Pacific Racing .

Career

Monoposto

Belmondo was active in Formula 3 and Formula 3000 , but could not finish a race in the top ten in either of the two classes. In 1992 he drove as a " pay driver " (a driver who pays for his starts) for March in Formula 1; ninth place at the Hungarian Grand Prix was his best result.

In the 1992 Formula 1 World Championship he was able to qualify four more times before running out of money and being replaced by Emanuele Naspetti . Two years later he tried a comeback in Formula 1 with the non-competitive Pacific Racing team . He only qualified twice for one race and each performed worse than his team-mate Bertrand Gachot .

GT and sports cars

Belmondo later started in the FIA GT championship . He drove a Chrysler Viper GTS-R and took part in the Le Mans Series with his own racing team, Paul Belmondo Racing . He competed ten times in the Le Mans 24-hour race . His best place in the overall ranking was 17th in 1999 .

Private

Belmondo is the son of the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo . Around 1991 he was in a relationship with Princess Stéphanie of Monaco .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1985	New-Man Joest Racing	Porsche 956	Mauricio de Narváez	Kenper Miller	failure	accident
1987	Brun Motorsport	Porsche 962C	Michel Trollé	Pierre de Thoisy
1988	Courage Compétition	Cougar C22	François Migault	Ukyo Katayama
1989	Obermaier Racing	Porsche 962C	Jürgen Lässig	Pierre Yver
1993	TWR Jaguar Racing	Jaguar XJ220	Jay Cochran	Andreas Fuchs		Overheated cylinder
1995	Venturi Automobiles SA	Venturi 600SLM	Jean-Marc Gounon	Arnaud Trévisiol	not classified
1996	Ennea SRL Igol	Ferrari F40 GTE		Eric Bernard	failure	Electrics
1999	Paul Belmondo Racing	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	Marc Rostan	Tiago Monteiro	Rank 17
2004		Courage C65	Claude-Yves Gosselin	Marco Saviozzi	failure	accident
2005			Didier André	Rick Sutherland	Rank 22

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1984	DS Racing Team	Porsche 956	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	BRH	MOS	SPA	IMO	FUJ	KYA	SAN
													11
1985	Joest Racing		MUG	MON	SIL	LEM	HOK	MOS	SPA	BRH	FUJ	SEL
					6th	DNF					DNF
1987	Brun Motorsport	Porsche 962	JAR	JER	MON	SIL	LEM	NOW	BRH	ONLY	SPA	FUJ
							DNF
1988	Courage Compétition	Cougar C22	JER	JAR	MON	SIL	LEM	BRÜ	BRH	ONLY	SPA	FUJ	SAN
							DNF

Web links

Commons : Paul Belmondo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at F1 Rejects (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Le Mans 1999