The Matra Company's racing team, under the names of Matra Sports , Equipe Matra Elf and Equipe Matra Sports (after a takeover by Simca in 1969 as Matra-Simca Division Automobile ), was formed in 1965 and based at Champagne-sur-Seine (1965–1967), Romorantin-Lanthenay (1967–1969) and Vélizy-Villacoublay (1969–1979). In 1979 the team was taken over by Peugeot and renamed as Automobiles Talbot .
23-579: Pescarolo may refer to: Henri Pescarolo , a French Formula One, sports car, and rally driver Pescarolo Sport , the French motorsports team founded by Henri Pescarolo Juliano Pescarolo Martins (born 1974), Brazilian footballer Pescarolo ed Uniti , an Italian comune in the Province of Cremona Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
46-542: A French-licensed team and a French engine, as well as the first all-French victory in the Formula One World Championship. The company was also successful in endurance racing with cars powered by their V12 engine. The sportscar racing team was based at first at Vélizy-Villacoublay and then moved to Le Castellet , near Marseille , France. The Matra MS670 car won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1972 , 1973 , and 1974 . It also delivered
69-504: A single season. The decision was even more radical given that Matra was seeking a partnership with Simca , which would preclude using Ford -branded engines for the following year. Stewart won the 1969 title easily with the new Cosworth -powered Matra MS80 car, which was designed by Gérard Ducarouge and Bernard Boyer , and corrected most of the weaknesses of the MS10 car. The 1969 World Drivers' and Constructors' Championship titles were
92-571: A solid season with a third place at the Monaco Grand Prix being the high point. He also won the Paris 1000 km and Buenos Aires 1000 km sports car races partnered with Beltoise. Pescarolo was not retained by Matra, and in 1971, 1972, and 1973 with Motul sponsorship, he drove for the fledgling Formula One team run by the young Frank Williams , but with little success. In 1974, Pescarolo drove for BRM , again with Motul backing, but
115-601: Is a French former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1968 to 1976 . In endurance racing , Pescarolo is a four-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans , and won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1991 with Joest . Born and raised in Paris , Pescarolo began his career in a Lotus Seven aged 22. Pescarolo participated in 64 Formula One Grands Prix , achieving one fastest lap, one podium finish, and 12 championship points. He also entered
138-528: The 24 Hours of Le Mans a record 33 times between 1966 and 1999 , with four overall and six class wins; he won several other major sportscar racing events, including the: 24 Hours of Daytona , 1000 km of Monza , 1000 km of Spa-Francorchamps , 6 Hours of Nürburgring and 1000 km Buenos Aires . Pescarolo also drove in the Dakar Rally in the 1990s, before retiring from racing aged 57. Upon his retirement from motor racing in 1999, Pescarolo founded
161-632: The Bathurst 1000 for touring cars held at the Mount Panorama Circuit , driving on all three occasions with 1974 race winner John Goss . Unfortunately all races resulted in a DNF for the Goss built Ford XC Falcon GS500 Hardtops , completing only 113 laps (of 163) in 1977, 68 in 1978 and 118 in 1979. The 1977 race saw Pescarolo's Le Mans rival Jacky Ickx win the race in a semi-works Falcon driving with Allan Moffat . Pescarolo holds
184-591: The MS5 monocoque-based car, winning the French and European championships. In 1967 , Jacky Ickx surprised the F1 establishment by posting the third-fastest qualifying time of 8:14" at the German Nürburgring in his 1600cc Matra MS7 F2, which was allowed to enter alongside the 3000cc F1 cars . In the race, he failed to finish due to a broken suspension. Matra entered Formula One in 1968 when Jackie Stewart
207-604: The Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans whilst testing the Matra sports car. Pescarolo was badly burned and did not compete again until mid-season. He returned at the German GP where he drove a Formula 2 Matra into fifth place winning the small capacity class, in his only Grand Prix race that season. For 1970 Pescarolo was signed full-time by Matra for their Formula One team and once again as team-mate to Beltoise, put in
230-533: The Shadow DN7 car in two races of the 1975 season and then cars built and entered by the Ligier Formula 1 team from 1976 – 1978 , and again (under the name Talbot Ligier ) from 1981 - 1982 , winning three races (the 1977 Swedish Grand Prix , 1981 Austrian Grand Prix and 1981 Canadian Grand Prix ). Jacques Laffite ´s victory at the 1977 Swedish Grand Prix was the first Formula One victory for
253-528: The eponymous racing team, Pescarolo Sport , which competed at Le Mans until 2013 . He was widely known for his distinctive green helmet, and full-face beard that partially covers burns suffered in a crash. Born in Montfermeil near Paris, Pescarolo began his career in 1965 with a Lotus Seven . He was successful enough to be offered a third car in the Matra Formula 3 team for 1966, but the car
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#1732787365201276-468: The 1990s, and is also a keen helicopter pilot. ( key ) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Graded drivers not eligible for European Formula Two Championship points ( key ) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) ( key ) Equipe Matra Sports In the mid-1960s, Matra enjoyed considerable success in Formula 3 and F2 racing, particularly with
299-708: The Constructors' Championship without running its own works team. Like Cosworth , Lotus and McLaren , Matra experimented with four wheel drive during the 1969 season. Johnny Servoz-Gavin became the one and only driver to score a point with a 4WD car, finishing sixth with the Matra MS84 at the Canadian Grand Prix . The MS84, along with Brabham 's BT26A , was one of the last spaceframe cars to compete in Formula One. For 1970 following
322-556: The agreement with Simca , Matra asked Tyrrell to use their Matra Sports V12 engine rather than the Cosworth. Stewart got to test Matra's V12, but since a large part of the Tyrrell budget was provided by Ford , and another significant sponsor was French state-owned petroleum company Elf , which had an agreement with Renault that precluded supporting a Simca partner, the partnership between Matra and Tyrrell ended. Matra V12s powered
345-524: The final 5 races, even scoring a season's best finish of 9th at the 1976 Austrian Grand Prix . After Pescarolo's retirement from Formula One, he went on to start his own team, which competed until 2012 in the Le Mans Endurance Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans , which he won as a driver four times (1972, 1973, 1974 and 1984). His team, Pescarolo Sport , was notably sponsored by Sony's PlayStation 2 and by Gran Turismo 4 . During
368-545: The first titles won by a French constructor, and still remain the only titles won by a car built in France as well as a car entered by a privateer team. It was a spectacular achievement from a constructor that had only entered Formula One the previous year. France became only the third country (after the United Kingdom and Italy ) to have produced a winning constructor , and Matra became the only constructor to have won
391-508: 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. In 1977 , 1978 and 1979 Pescarolo drove in Australia 's most famous motor race,
414-531: 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. Pescarolo drove the Dakar Rally in
437-478: The team's best days were gone and a ninth place in Argentina was his best result in a season with many retirements. Pescarolo did not compete in Formula One in 1975 but returned to the championship in 1976 with a Surtees privately entered by BS Fabrications . Although neither car nor driver was considered to be competitive, failing to qualify for 2 of 9 Grands Prix entered, Pescarolo did begin to show speed in
460-436: The technology to be unsafe and decided to ban it for 1970 . Matra CEO Jean-Luc Lagardère made a strategic decision for the 1969 championship: the Matra works team would not compete in Formula One. Matra would instead focus its efforts on Ken Tyrrell 's privateer team (renamed Matra International ) and build a new Ford Cosworth DFV -powered car with structural fuel tanks, even though it would only be eligible for
483-623: The title Pescarolo . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pescarolo&oldid=938647857 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Henri Pescarolo Henri Jacques William Pescarolo ( French pronunciation: [ɑ̃.ʁi pɛs.ka.ʁɔ.lo] ; born 25 September 1942)
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#1732787365201506-517: Was a serious contender, winning several Grands Prix in the Tyrrell -run Matra MS10 which competed alongside the works team . The F1 team was established at Vélizy-Villacoublay in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. The car's most innovative feature was the use of aviation-inspired structural fuel tanks. These allowed the chassis to be around 15 kg (33 lb) lighter, while still being stronger than its competitors. The FIA considered
529-532: Was not ready until mid-season. However, in 1967 he won the European Championship with Matra and was promoted to Formula 2 for 1968. That season he was team-mate to Jean-Pierre Beltoise and achieved several second places and a win at Albi , which led to him being given a drive in Matra 's Formula One team for the last three races of 1968. His career suffered a setback, in 1969, when he crashed on
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