Raymond Touroul

Raymond Touroul (born January 1, 1939 , † March 11, 2006 in Créteil ) was a French circuit , rally driver , racing team owner and stuntman .

Career in motorsport

The versatile motor sportsman Raymond Touroul was active between 1969 and 1996 in the various racing forms and series. The connecting link in all of these activities was the Porsche sports car brand . He enters almost all of his races with models from this manufacturer; largely self-financed and reported.

As a rally driver, he competed several times in the world championship races in Morocco and on the Ivory Coast . He finished fifth in the 1971 Morocco Rally and sixth in the 1972 Tour de France for automobiles . In 1981 he became French rallycross champion and won the prologue of the Dakar Rally in 1982 .

He had his first international outing on the circuit at the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race in 1969 , which he was unable to finish after a retirement. He also had his last race in Spa . When the GTR Euro Series scoring four-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps was his Porsche 993 Carrera Cup made after engine failure. There were 71 race starts between these two races; including 14 participations in the Le Mans 24-hour race . At the endurance race in western France, he celebrated two class wins ( 1971 and 1984 ) and was sixth overall - in 1971 and 1976 .

Stuntman

After the end of his racing career, Touroul worked as a stunt driver for international film production. He appeared as a driver in the productions Taxi and The Bourne Identity .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1971	ASA Cachia Bundi	Porsche 911S	André Anselme		Rank 6 and class win
1972	Jean Égreteaud	Porsche 908/2	Jean-Claude Lagniez		failure	no petrol
1973	Raymond Touroul	Porsche 910	Jean-Pierre Rouget		failure	Gasoline system
1974	ASA Cachia	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Henri Cachia	Dennis Rua	Rank 10
1975	X Racing	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Philippe Hesnault		Rank 18
1976	Gérard Méo	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Alain Cudini		Rank 6
1977	Osella Squadra Corse	Osella PA5	Alain Cudini	Anna Cambiaghi	failure	Engine failure
1978	Ecurie Francorchamps	Ferrari 512 BB	Teddy Pilette	Jean Blaton	failure	Gearbox damage
1979	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Porsche 935	Jean-Pierre Jarier	Randy Townsend	failure	Engine failure
1983	Michel Lateste	Porsche 930	Michel Lateste	Michel Bienvault	Rank 20
1984	Raymond Touroul	Porsche 911SC	Valentin Bertapelle	Thierry Perrier	17th place and class win
1985	Raymond Touroul team	Porsche 911SC	Philippe Dermagne	Thierry Perrier	failure	Cylinder overheated
1986	Cosmik Racing Promotions	March 84G	Costa's lot	Neil Crang	Disqualified
1989	France Prototeam	Spice SE88C	Bernard Thuner	Pierre de Thoisy	failure	Chassis broken

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. 2 volumes. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

• Information about Raymond Touroul (French)
• Raymond Touroul at Racing Sports Cars
• Raymond Tourol in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps 1969
2. ^ 4-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps 1998