Benoît Tréluyer

Benoît Treluyer ( born December 7, 1976 in Alençon ) is a French racing driver.

Career

Beginnings in motorsport

Benoît Treluyer began his career in 1983 as a motocross racer and remained true to the sport until 1989. He then moved to karting, he exercised from 1990 to 1994. In 1995 he succeeded to the participation in the French Formula Campus the rise in single-seater range. In the years '96 and '97 he competed in the French Formula Renault Championship, where he was able to celebrate a race win in the second season.

Formula 3

1998 Tréluyer rose in the French Formula 3 and scored, driving for Signature, one pole position and ninth overall. He also played for the team race in the British Championships. The following year he spent again in the French Formula 3 and in Signature and was with two wins, two pole positions and eight other podium finishes in third place overall. In addition, he won, starting from pole position, the European Formula 3 Cup in Pau and was third in the Korea Super Prix. In 2000, he joined the Japanese Formula 3 championship team Inging and reached with a win, one pole position and two other podium results, a fifth place overall. He also ended the Zandvoort Formula 3 Masters in fourth. In 2001, he won, antretend for Dome Project, with 16 victories, 14 pole positions and a total of 19 podium finishes in 20 races superior to the Japanese Formula 3 and also gained his first experience in the Japanese GT Championship ( podium ). In Super Prix, he scored again in third place in the Macau F3 Grand Prix, he managed to rank second after he was there resigned two years earlier. In Zandvoort F3 Masters him so much happiness, however, was not granted, he was 24

Formula Nippon, Super GT and Le Mans 24 Hours

2002 Tréluyer came first in the Formula Nippon, moreover, he continued his irregular appearances in the All- Japan GT Championship continues. He also appeared at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the GTS class and finished third. This combination would shape his career in the coming years. In 2003, he was the first full-time engaged in the two Japanese Topcategories and finished, each with team Inpul standing under contract, the Formula Nippon with two wins. Than runner-up and the GT series, also with two racing successes in seventh 2004 had Tréluyer again despite two victories in the F. Nippon to make do with fourth place in the GT series handed it with a success only for the eleventh place overall. In Le Mans, he started this time in the LMP1 class and finished fourth. 2005 was a victory and sixth overall in the F. Nippon to book in the Super GT he placed only among the "also rans".

In the 2006 season Tréluyer was finally with four wins Formula Nippon champion, winning the prestigious Suzuka 1000 km race ( " Pokka 1000 km " ) also earned him eighth place overall in the Super GT Championship. In 2007, he missed with overall two just to defend the title in Formula Nippon, in the Super GT he played no role in the front of the field overall; on his Le Mans comeback of the thirteenth place (sixth in the LMP1 rating ) jumped out. In 2008 he experienced as a disappointing eighth championship season in Formula Nippon, but managed to enlist with three wins, along with Satoshi Motoyama for the first time the Super GT series, probably paid off the NISMO team of change. He finished the 24 Hours of Le Mans in seventh. In 2009 Tréluyer started to also in these three categories; in Formula Nippon he was with a race win for the third time runner-up in the Super GT as he reached double race winner overall 4th place in Le Mans he had experienced a failure.

In 2010 he completed the first time since 2001, no race in the Formula Nippon championship more, but still came in the Super GT series and finished the season with two podium finishes in seventh place. He also recorded his best result at Le Mans, a second place in the Audi Sport Team Joest. In addition Tréluyer for Joest at a respective races of the American Le Mans Series and the Le Mans Series took part.

The 24 - hour race at Le Mans in 2011, he was after two serious accidents within the team ( Allan McNish # 1 and Mike Rockenfeller # 3) with his driver colleagues Marcel Fässler and André Lotterer at the one remaining Audi R18 just before three Peugeot 908 win.

Le Mans results

Others

Benoît Treluyer has already survived several spectacular accidents in his career. So in 2007 during a Formula Nippon race at Suzuka, a collision occurred on the crossover line, as a result of which his race car was torn apart in the middle, but he suffered no serious injuries. During the 24 hours of Le Mans 2009, driven by his Peugeot 908 HDi FAP struck the Dunlop bow hard into the barriers and was thrown in the sequence through the air, he could emerge from the wreckage but unhurt.