Xavier Pompidou

Xavier Pompidou's Speedy Racing Team-Lola-B08 / 80 before the Le Mans 24-hour race 2009

Xavier Pompidou (born June 27, 1972 in Meulan-en-Yvelines ) is a French racing driver .

Career

Like many racing drivers, Pompidou began his motorsport career in karting . At the age of 18, he finished second overall in the Formula A World Championship in 1990. In 1992, he climbed into the single-seater racing and competed in the Formula Renault . Via the French championship he got into the pan-European competition, where he finished fourth overall with 111 points in 1994.

The French Formula 3 championship followed as a further step in his career . In 21 races - spread over two years - he only achieved one pole position and a podium finish. In addition to a lack of sporting success, he also lacked sponsorship funds to continue his monoposto career. Pompidou switched to sports car and GT racing . At the beginning he had to make do with small private teams, but quickly made a name for himself as a fast pilot and was soon offered better cockpits.

In 1998 he made his debut for Kremer Racing at the Le Mans 24-hour race . The twelfth overall position achieved this year remained the best overall result in this endurance race , along with the same position in the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2008 . In 2001 he won the GT classification of the 1000 km race in Estoril and a year later, also in the GT class, at the 1000 km race in Suzuka .

His greatest successes he achieved in the Le Mans Series , where he in 2005 together with Marc Lieb won the overall title in the GT2 class. In 2007 he was runner-up in this class. In 2009 he reached another runner-up, this time in the LMP2 class.

Since 2010 he has been racing in the V de V Challenge Endurance Moderne - the French GT championship.

Private

Xavier Pompidou is married with two children and lives in the south of France.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1998	Kremer Racing	Kremer K8 Spyder	Riccardo Agusta	Almo Coppelli	Rank 12
2000	Gérard Welter	WR LMP	Stéphane Daoudi	Jean-Bernard Bouvet	failure	Engine failure
2001	Team Ascari	Ascari A410	Klaas Zwart	Scott Maxwell	failure	accident
2005	T2M Motorsports	Porsche 911 GT3 RS	Yutaka Yamagishi	Jean-Luc Blanchemain	failure	accident
2006	Sebah Automotive Ltd.	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	Christian Ried	Thorkild Thyrring	failure	Axle bearing
2008	Speedy Racing Team	Lola B08 / 80	Steve Zacchia	Andrea Belicchi	failure	accident
2009	Speedy Racing Team	Lola B08 / 80	Benjamin Leuenberger	Jonny Kane	Rank 12