Sylvain Boulay

Sylvain Boulay 2011

Sylvain Boulay (born July 3, 1955 in Saint-Mars-d'Outillé ) is a former French racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Sylvain Boulay has competed in the Le Mans 24-hour race seven times in his career . He made his debut in 1987 for the racing team of his compatriot Louis Descartes . He was able to finish the race with his partners Michel Lateste and Gérard Tremblay , but the team was not rated due to the lack of distance covered. 13 years later, on his fourth appearance, he achieved first place in the overall classification. He drove a WR LMP from Welter Racing with his partners Richard Balandras and Yōjirō Terada in 26th place in the final classification. His best placement at Le Mans was finishing 24th in 2003 ; retracted together with Michele Rugolo and Jean-Bernard Bouvet on a Durango LMP1 .

His best result apart from Le Mans was eleventh place in the 2004 Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km race .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1987	Automobiles Louis Descartes	ALD 02	Michel Lateste	Gérard Tremblay	not classified
1988	Automobiles Louis Descartes	ALD 04	Michel Lateste	Gérard Tremblay	failure	Cylinder head gasket
1994	Stealth engineering	ALD 06	Dominique Lacaud	Bernard Robin	failure	Engine failure
2000	Rachel Welter	WR LMP	Richard Balandras	Yōjirō Terada	Rank 26
2003	Automotive Durango SRL	Durango LMP1	Michele Rugolo	Jean-Bernard Bouvet	Rank 24
2004	Noël del Bello Racing	Reynard 2KQ	Bruno Besson	Jean-Luc Maury-Laribière	failure	accident
2005	Gérard Welter	WR LMP04	Robert Julien	Jean-Bernard Bouvet	failure	malfunction

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1987	Automobiles Descartes	ALD 02	JAR	JER	MON	SIL	LEM	NOW	BRH	ONLY	SPA	FUJ
						14th	DNF
1988	Louis Descartes	ALD 03	JER	JAR	MON	SIL	LEM	BRÜ	BRH	ONLY	SPA	FUJ	SAN
			DNF				DNF

Web links

Commons : Sylvain Boulay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sylvain Boulay at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1000 km race of Spa-Francorchamps 2004