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Henri Pescarolo Born (1942-09-25) 25 September 1942 (age 69) Formula One World Championship career Nationality French Active years 1968 - 1974, 1976 Teams Matra, March, Williams, BRM, privateer Surtees Races 64 (57 starts) Championships 0 Wins 0 Podiums 1 Career points 12 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 1 First race 1968 Canadian Grand Prix Last race 1976 United States Grand Prix 24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 1966–1968, 1970–1999 Teams Equipe Matra (Matra-Simca), Scuderia Filipinetti, Ligier, Inaltera, Martini Racing-Porsche, Rondeau, Joest Racing, Kouros Racing Team, Tom Walkinshaw Racing (Silk Cut Jaguar), Konrad Motorsport, Courage Compétition, La Filière Elf, Pescarolo Sport Best finish 1st (1972, 1973, 1974, 1984) Class wins 6 (1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1984, 1992)

Henri Pescarolo (born 25 September 1942^[1]) is a former racing driver from France. He participated in 64 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 22 September 1968. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of 12 championship points. He wore a distinctive green helmet, and still has a full face beard, that partially covers burns suffered in a crash.

Henri Pescarolo to this day drives in the yearly Dakar Rally.

After Pescarolo's retirement from Formula 1, he went on to start his own team which now competes in the Le Mans Endurance Series, and the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which he won as a driver in 1972 in a Matra, co-driven by Graham Hill. His team, Pescarolo Sport, is notably sponsored by Sony's PlayStation 2 and by Gran Turismo 4. During the five years that Pescarolo has campaigned Courage C60 prototypes, so many modifications have been made to the model that Courage allowed the team to name the car after themselves, such was the differences between their model and the standard C60. In 2005, it was developed further still to meet the "hybrid" regulations, before the change to LMP1/2 format. It is unknown whether Pescarolo will use the newer Courage C70 in the future.

Franck Montagny driving the Pescarolo C60 during practice for the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Pescarolo holds the record for Le Mans starts with 33 and has won the race on four occasions as a driver. He has yet to win the race as a team owner, coming very close in 2005 with the Pescarolo C60H. His team did manage to win the LMES championship in the same year. His team was also second at Le Mans in 2006, followed by a third in 2007 behind a pair of diesel-powered prototypes.

Henri Pescarolo is also a keen helicopter pilot.

Complete Formula One World Championship results[link]

(key) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

See also[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Henri Pescarolo

• Pescarolo Sport

References[link]

Gérard Larrousse

Born	(1940-05-23) 23 May 1940 (age 72)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	French
Active years	1974
Teams	Scuderia Finotto
Races	2 (1 start)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1974 Belgian Grand Prix
Last race	1974 French Grand Prix

Gérard Larrousse (born 23 May 1940 in Lyon) is a former sports car racing, rallying and Formula One driver from France.

He participated in two Grands Prix, debuting on 12 May 1974, scoring no championship points. He drove Brabham BT42s for Scuderia Finotto.

Gérard Larrousse driving Porsche 908/2 at the Nürburgring in 1970

Before focusing on circuit racing, Larrousse won the French Rally Championship with an Alpine A110. His biggest successes in international rallies came in a Porsche 911. He won the Tour de Corse in 1969, and placed second at the Monte Carlo Rally in 1969, 1970 and 1972. On gravel, he achieved a sixth place at the 1970 RAC Rally.

In a team with Vic Elford in 1971, Larrousse won the 12 Hours of Sebring with a Porsche 917K and the 1000km Nürburgring in a Porsche 908/03. He would follow this with victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1973 and 1974 alongside Henri Pescarolo for Matra-Simca.

Following his sports car career, he moved into racing management, running the Elf Switzerland operation in the European Formula Two Championship. From there, Larrousse went on to run the original factory Renault Formula One team during its final days as a full fledged factory team in 1984 and 1985.

Larrousse also shared ownership of an eponymous Formula One team with various partners, from 1987 to 1994.

Formula One World Championship results[link]

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External links[link]

• Gerard Larrousse official website (French)

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Pierre Desproges en scène (1985).

Pierre Desproges (May 9, 1939 – April 18, 1988) was a French humorist. He was famous for his elaborate, eloquent and above all, virulent diatribes criticizing anything and everything. He was born in Pantin, Seine-Saint-Denis. According to himself, he made no significant achievements before the age of 30. From 1967 to 1970, he worked as: life insurance salesman, opinion pool investigator, "lonely hearts" columnist, horse racing forecaster, and sales manager for a styrofoam beam company.

From 1970 to 1976, he worked for the newspaper L'Aurore. Starting in 1975, he became a "reporter" on Le petit rapporteur (The Little Snitch), a satirical TV show hosted by Jacques Martin . He caught the public's attention with unconventional interviews of celebrities, among them novelists Françoise Sagan or Jean-Edern Hallier.

He appeared for the first time on stage at the Olympia theater during a Thierry Le Luron show. Among other things, he became very famous for his Chroniques de la haine ordinaire (Chronicles of Ordinary Hatred), a 1986 radio show.

In the 1980s, he appeared daily on Le tribunal des flagrants délires (a pun on the French term "flagrant délit" meaning red-handed), a comedy show where celebrities were judged in mock-trials. Desproges held the part of the prosecutor for more than two years, a part for which his verve, his scathing humour and his literary erudition were ideally suited.

In 1982, he created La minute nécessaire de Monsieur Cyclopède, a series of shorts for TV, where he played an omniscient professor. He would answer to metaphysical and nonsensical questions such as "How to make King Louis XVI fireproof?", proved that Beethoven was not deaf but stupid, and explained why the improbable encounter between the Venus de Milo and Saint Exupéry's 'Petit Prince' was a fiasco.

Grave of Pierre Desproges at Cimetière du Père-Lachaise

In 1984, he had his first stand-up show at the Théâtre Fontaine. In 1986, his second stand-up, Pierre Desproges se donne en spectacle was presented at the Théâtre Grévin.

He died in 1988 from lung cancer, a disease he had bitterly laughed at time and time again, often saying "I won't have cancer: I'm against it". He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Books[link]

• "Le petit rapporteur" (1999) (The Little Snitch)
• "La seule certitude que j'ai, c'est d'être dans le doute" (1998) (The Only Certainty I Have, Is to Be in Doubt)
• "Les bons conseils du professeur Corbiniou" (1997) (The Good Advice of Professor Corbiniou)
• "La minute nécessaire de Monsieur Cyclopède" (1995) (The Necessary Minute of Mr Cyclopede)
• "Les étrangers sont nuls" (1992) (Foreigners Are Worthless)
• "Fond de tiroir" (1990) (Drawer Bottom)
• "L'almanach" (1989) (The Almanac)
• "Textes de scène" (1988) (Stand-up Texts)
• "Des femmes qui tombent" (1985) (Falling Women)
• "Dictionnaire superflu à l'usage de l'élite et des biens-nantis" (1985) (Superfluous Dictionary for the Elite and the Well-to-do)
• "Vivons heureux en attendant la mort" (1983) (Let Us Live Happily While We're Waiting for Death)
• "Manuel de savoir-vivre à l'usage des rustres et des malpolis" (1981) (Handbook of Good Manners for the Uncouth and the Impolite)

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Pierre Desproges

• Official website
• Desproges at the Internet Movie Database

Emmanuel Collard

Nationality	French
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	1995 -
Teams	Larbre Compétition, La Filière, Porsche AG, Toyota Motorsport (Toyota Team Europe), DAMS, Team Cadillac, Alex Job Racing, Pescarolo Sport, Team Essex, Corvette Racing
Best finish	2nd (2005)
Class wins	1 (2003, 2009)

Emmanuel Collard (born April 3, 1971 in Arpajon, Essonne) is a French racing driver. He is a member of the Porsche Junioren factory team, but drives also for other marques.

He is the winner of the Le Mans Series for Pescarolo Sport in 2005 and 2006 with Jean-Christophe Boullion and in 2011 for Pescarolo Team with Julien Jousse. He co-drove the overall winner of the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring.

He also was the Formula One test driver for Prost Grand Prix in 1997, Benetton in the late 1990s and Ligier-Ford in 1990.

Collard driving in the Porsche Supercup in 1995. His car's livery reflects his role as the Benetton Formula One team's test driver.

24 Hours of Le Mans results[link]

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1995	GT1	37	P	Porsche 911 GT2 Evo Porsche 3.6L Turbo Flat-6	Larbre Compétition	Dominique Dupuy Stéphane Ortelli	82	DNF	DNF
1996	LMP1	5	M	Courage C36 Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	La Filière Elf	Henri Pescarolo Franck Lagorce	327	7th	2nd
1997	GT1	26	G	Porsche 911 GT1 Porsche 3.2L Turbo Flat-6	Porsche AG	Ralf Kelleners Yannick Dalmas	327	DNF	DNF
1998	GT1	28	M	Toyota GT-One Toyota R36V 3.6L Turbo V8	Toyota Motorsports Toyota Team Europe	Martin Brundle Eric Hélary	191	DNF	DNF
1999	LMGTP	1	M	Toyota GT-One Toyota R36V 3.6L Turbo V8	Toyota Motorsports Toyota Team Europe	Martin Brundle Vincenzo Sospiri	90	DNF	DNF
2000	LMP900	3	P	Cadillac Northstar LMP Cadillac Northstar 4.0L Turbo V8	Team DAMS	Éric Bernard Franck Montagny	300	19th	9th
2001	LMP900	5	M	Cadillac Northstar LMP01 Cadillac Northstar 4.0L Turbo V8	DAMS	Éric Bernard Marc Goossens	56	DNF	DNF
2002	LMP900	7	M	Cadillac Northstar LMP02 Cadillac Northstar 4.0L Turbo V8	Team Cadillac	Éric Bernard JJ Lehto	334	12th	10th
2003	GT	93	M	Porsche 911 GT3-RS Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	Alex Job Racing Petersen Motorsports	Sascha Maassen Lucas Luhr	320	14th	1st
2004	LMP1	17	M	Pescarolo C60 Judd GV5 5.0L V10	Pescarolo Sport	Sébastien Bourdais Nicolas Minassian	282	DNF	DNF
2005	LMP1	16	M	Pescarolo C60 Hybrid Judd GV5 5.0L V10	Pescarolo Sport	Jean-Christophe Boullion Érik Comas	368	2nd	2nd
2006	LMP1	16	M	Pescarolo C60 Hybrid Judd GV5 S2 5.0L V10	Pescarolo Sport	Érik Comas Nicolas Minassian	352	5th	4th
2007	LMP1	16	M	Pescarolo 01 Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5L V10	Pescarolo Sport	Jean-Christophe Boullion Romain Dumas	358	3rd	3rd
2008	LMP1	16	M	Pescarolo 01 Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5L V10	Pescarolo Sport	Jean-Christophe Boullion Romain Dumas	238	DNF	DNF
2009	LMP2	31	M	Porsche RS Spyder Evo Porsche MR6 3.4L V8	Team Essex	Casper Elgaard Kristian Poulsen	357	10th	1st
2010	GT2	64	M	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R Chevrolet 5.5L V8	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta	255	DNF	DNF
2011	LMP1	16	M	Pescarolo 01 Judd GV5 S2 5.0L V10	Pescarolo Team	Christophe Tinseau Julien Jousse	305	DNF	DNF