Sylvain Garant

Sylvain François Garant (born June 29, 1925 in Palaiseau , † June 6, 1993 in Clearwater ) was a French rally and circuit racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Sylvain Garant began his career as a rally driver in the early 1960s and switched to the circuit in 1962. He celebrated his first success in the same year at the Albi Grand Prix on the Circuit des Planques , when he finished third overall behind Henri Oreiller ( Ferrari 250 GT SWB ) and Edgar Berney (also in a Ferrari 250 GT) in a Jaguar E-Type . In addition to his regular appearances in the French rally championship , he celebrated further successes on the circuit. In 1964 he finished third at the Coupe du Salon and won the Coupes de Vitesse a year later . Both races took place on the Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry ; The emergency vehicle in both cases was a Ferrari 250 GTO .

1968 he went on a Porsche 911S of the Scuderia Filipinetti in the World Sportscar Championship at the start and drove their Ferrari 250LM in sportscar race without World Championship status. In the same year he made his debut at the Le Mans 24-hour race in the Scuderia's Corvette C3 . His best placement at Le Mans, where he started four times, was 13th overall in 1972 . This result, achieved with Jürgen Barth and Michael Keyser in the Porsche 911S, was victory in the GTS class up to 2.5-liter displacement.

In 1969 he was tenth overall at the Daytona 24-hour race and 13th in the Sebring 12-hour race in 1968 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1968	Scuderia Filipinetti	Chevrolet Corvette	Jean-Michel Giorgi		failure	accident
1970	Wicky Racing Team	Porsche 911TH	Guy Verrier		not classified
1971	Pierre Greub	Porsche 911S	Pierre Greub		failure	Gearbox damage
1972	Louis Mezanarie	Porsche 911S	Jürgen Barth	Michael Keyser	Rank 13 and class win

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1968	Jean-Pierre Hanrioud	Porsche 911S	Jean-Pierre Hanrioud	Rank 13

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
1964	AGACI	Ferrari 250 GTO	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
																			DNF
1967	Robert Buchet Sylvain Garant	Porsche 911 Ferrari 250LM	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
							DNF							DNF
1968	Jean-Pierre Hanrioud Scuderia Filipinetti	Porsche 911 Chevrolet Corvette	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
			18th	13		12	17th					DNF
1969	Wicky Racing	Porsche 911	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
			10
1970	Wicky Racing Sylvain Garant	Porsche 911	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
						21st	17th	DNF		DNF	18th	18th
1971	Pierre Greub	Porsche 911	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
									8th		DNF
1972	Louis Mezanarie	Porsche 911	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
											13

Web links

• Sylvain Garant at Racing Sports Cars