Jean-Marc Gounon

Jean-Marc Gounon

Born	1 January 1963 Aubenas, Ardèche, France
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	French
Active years	1993–1994
Teams	Minardi, Simtek
Entries	9
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Career points	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First entry	1993 Japanese Grand Prix
Last entry	1994 Portuguese Grand Prix

Jean-Marc Gounon (born 1 January 1963) is a French racing driver. He raced in Formula One in 1993 and 1994, participating in a total of 9 Grands Prix and scoring no championship points.

Career

After winning the French Formula 3 Championship in 1989, Gounon moved into International Formula 3000 in 1990. He was the only man to win F3000 races in a non-Reynard in 1991 and 1992, in a RALT and Lola respectively. He also became known for his quick starts, and might have had another win at Enna in 1991, but was controversially adjudged to have jumped the start in the era before electronic detection.

In 1993 Gounon bought a two-race deal with Minardi after Christian Fittipaldi was dropped but he finished neither race, being withdrawn at Suzuka and spinning off in the season-closer, Adelaide's 1993 Australian Grand Prix.

The next year Gounon benefited from Andrea Montermini having broken his leg, and finished 9th for Simtek at his home race, France (Simtek's joint best ever result). He raced in seven grands prix that season and qualified for all of them, being finally replaced after the Portuguese Grand Prix by the better-funded Domenico Schiattarella, ending his F1 career.

Later in his career he went on to drive sports cars.

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
1990	Madgwick International	DON Ret	SIL 13	PAU DNQ	JER Ret	MNZ Ret	PER DSQ	HOC 3	BRH 6	BIR 4	BUG 4	NOG Ret	9th	11
1991	3001 International	VAL DNQ	PAU 1	JER 6	MUG 10	PER 6	HOC 5	BRH Ret	SPA 7	BUG Ret	NOG Ret		6th	13
1992	DAMS	SIL 4	PAU Ret	CAT Ret	PER Ret	HOC Ret	NÜR 6	SPA 9	ALB 16†	NOG 2	MAG 1		7th	19

† Driver did not finish, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance.

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
1993	Minardi Team	Minardi M193	Ford V8	RSA	BRA	EUR	SMR	ESP	MON	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL	ITA	POR	JPN Ret	AUS Ret	NC	0
1994	MTV Simtek Ford	Simtek S941	Ford V8	BRA	PAC	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA 9	GBR 16	GER Ret	HUN Ret	BEL 11	ITA Ret	POR 15	EUR	JPN	AUS	NC	0

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1995	Venturi Automobiles	Paul Belmondo Arnaud Trévisiol	Venturi 600LM	GT1	193	NC	NC
1996	Ennea SRL Igol	Éric Bernard Paul Belmondo	Ferrari F40 GTE	GT1	40	DNF	DNF
1997	Gulf Team Davidoff GTC Racing	Pierre-Henri Raphanel Anders Olofsson	McLaren F1 GTR	GT1	360	2nd	1st
1998	AMG-Mercedes	Ricardo Zonta Christophe Bouchut	Mercedes-Benz CLK-LM	GT1	31	DNF	DNF
2000	Thomas Bscher Promotion David Price Racing	Thomas Bscher Geoff Lees	BMW V12 LM	LMP900	180	DNF	DNF
2003	Courage Compétition	Jonathan Cochet Stéphan Grégoire	Courage C60-Judd	LMP900	360	7th	5th
2004	Courage Compétition	Alexander Frei Sam Hancock	Courage C65-JPX	LMP2	127	DNF	DNF
2005	Audi PlayStation Team Oreca	Franck Montagny Stéphane Ortelli	Audi R8	LMP1	362	4th	4th
2006	Courage Compétition	Shinji Nakano Haruki Kurosawa	Courage LC70-Mugen	LMP1	35	DNF	DNF
2007	Courage Compétition	Guillaume Moreau Stefan Johansson	Courage LC70-AER	LMP1	175	DNF	DNF
2008	Epsilon Euskadi	Shinji Nakano Stefan Johansson	Epsilon Euskadi EE1-Judd	LMP2	158	DNF	DNF

Sources

• Profile at www.grandprix.com