René Metge

Metge Porsche 961 from 1987

René Metge (born October 23, 1941 in Montrouge ) is a French rally driver .

Career

Metge managed in the years 1981 , 1984 and 1986 , the Paris-Dakar rally to win. Metge also took part repeatedly in the Le Mans 24-hour race , which he finished in 1986 as a class winner for the Porsche works team. He also won the first season of the Porsche 944 Turbo Cup France in 1987 . In the same year Metge started his last Le Mans race for Porsche AG, but dropped out early. In 2003 Metge was registered again, but he only drove the pre-tests in a Chrysler Viper GTS-R . However, he no longer took part in the race itself.

Although Metge no longer actively participates in races today, he has remained connected to rallying through the organization of the Rallye d'Orient and as the organizer and race director of the Africa Eco Race . Most recently he was active in motorsport as a co-driver in the Nissan team at the 2007 Dakar Rally with a placement of 22 overall cars.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1977	Anne-Charlotte Verney BP	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Anne-Charlotte Verney	Dany Snobeck	Hubert Striebig	Rank 18
1979	Anne-Charlotte Verney	Porsche 934	Anne-Charlotte Verney	Patrick Bardinon		Rank 19
1982	Cooke Racing - BP	Porsche 935 K3	François Sérvanin	Dany Snobeck		Rank 5
1984	GTi engineering	Porsche 956	Richard Lloyd	Nick Mason		Disqualified	unauthorized help
1986	Porsche AG	Porsche 961	Claude Ballot-Léna			Rank 7 and class win
1987	Porsche AG	Porsche 961	Claude Haldi	Kees Nierop		failure	accident

Web links

• Dakar team picture ( Memento from January 20, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )