Jean-Marc Gounon

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

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 was originally signed to drive in F1 for March but the team collapsed at the start of the season. He later bought a two-race deal with Minardi after Christian Fittipaldi was dropped but he finished neither race, being withdrawn at Suzuka and spinning off in the season-closer, Adelaide's 1993 Australian Grand Prix.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 ninth 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, Gounon 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 SIL PAU JER MNZ PER HOC BRH BIR BUG NOG 9th 11 1991 3001 International VAL PAU JER MUG PER HOC BRH SPA BUG NOG 6th 13 1992 DAMS SIL PAU CAT PER HOC NÜR SPA ALB NOG MAG 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 Minardi Team Minardi M193 Ford V8 RSA BRA EUR SMR ESP MON CAN FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR JPN AUS NC 0 MTV Simtek Ford Simtek S941 Ford V8 BRA PAC SMR MON ESP CAN FRA GBR GER HUN BEL ITA POR EUR JPN AUS NC 0

24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Venturi Automobiles Paul Belmondo Arnaud Trévisiol Venturi 600 LM GT1 193 NC NC Ennea SRL Igol Éric Bernard Paul Belmondo Ferrari F40 GTE GT1 40 DNF DNF Gulf Team Davidoff GTC Racing Pierre-Henri Raphanel Anders Olofsson McLaren F1 GTR GT1 360 2nd 1st AMG-Mercedes Ricardo Zonta Christophe Bouchut Mercedes-Benz CLK-LM GT1 31 DNF DNF AMG-Mercedes Marcel Tiemann Mark Webber Mercedes-Benz CLR LMGTP 0 DNS DNS Thomas Bscher Promotion Thomas Bscher Geoff Lees BMW V12 LM LMP900 180 DNF DNF Courage Compétition Jonathan Cochet Stéphan Grégoire Courage C60-Judd LMP900 360 7th 5th Courage Compétition Alexander Frei Sam Hancock Courage C65-JPX LMP2 127 DNF DNF Audi PlayStation Team Oreca Franck Montagny Stéphane Ortelli Audi R8 LMP1 362 4th 4th Courage Compétition Shinji Nakano Haruki Kurosawa Courage LC70-Mugen LMP1 35 DNF DNF Courage Compétition Guillaume Moreau Stefan Johansson Courage LC70-AER LMP1 175 DNF DNF Epsilon Euskadi Shinji Nakano Stefan Johansson Epsilon Euskadi ee1-Judd LMP1 158 DNF DNF