Christophe Bouchut

Christophe Bouchut (born 24 September 1966 in Voiron, Isère) is a French professional racing driver. He currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, driving for Dexwet-df1 Racing and Alex Caffi Motorsport in a part-time effort. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1993. He was named as the first driver for the F1 Larrousse team for the 1995 season, but the team withdrew before the first race.

Christophe Bouchut
Bouchut in 2013
Nationality	French
Born	(1966-09-24) 24 September 1966 (age 58) Voiron, Isère, France
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1993 – 2005, 2007 – 2013
Best finish	1st (1993)
Class wins	1 (1993)

In his 30 years of racing, Bouchut has earned 105 victories, 85 pole positions, four overall wins in 24-hour races (1993 Le Mans, 1995 Daytona, 2001 and 2002 Spa), three FIA GT titles (2000–2002) and the 2011 American Le Mans Series LMP2 championship.^[1]

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1993	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Éric Hélary Geoff Brabham	Peugeot 905 Evo 1B	C1	375	1st	1st
1994	Kremer Honda Racing	Armin Hahne Bertrand Gachot	Honda NSX	GT2	257	14th	6th
1995	Porsche Kremer Racing	Thierry Boutsen Hans-Joachim Stuck	Kremer K8 Spyder	WSC	289	6th	2nd
1996	Kremer Racing	Jürgen Lässig Harri Toivonen	Kremer K8 Spyder	LMP1	110	DNF	DNF
1997	Kremer Racing	Andy Evans Bertrand Gachot	Porsche 911 GT1	GT1	207	DNF	DNF
1998	AMG-Mercedes	Jean-Marc Gounon Ricardo Zonta	Mercedes-Benz CLK LM	GT1	31	DNF	DNF
1999	AMG-Mercedes	Nick Heidfeld Peter Dumbreck	Mercedes-Benz CLR	LMGTP	75	DNF	DNF
2000	Larbre Compétition	Patrice Goueslard Jean-Luc Chéreau	Porsche 911 GT3-R	GT	34	DNF	DNF
2001	Larbre Compétition	Jean-Philippe Belloc Tiago Monteiro	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	234	20th	4th
2002	Larbre Compétition	Patrice Goueslard Vincent Vosse	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	319	18th	4th
2003	Larbre Compétition	Patrice Goueslard Steve Zacchia	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	317	16th	4th
2004	Larbre Compétition	Patrice Goueslard Olivier Dupard	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	GTS	317	14th	5th
2005	Cirtek Motorsport Russian Age Racing Convers Team	Nikolai Fomenko Alexey Vasilyev	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	GT1	315	17th	5th
2007	Aston Martin Racing Larbre	Fabrizio Gollin Casper Elgaard	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	305	7th	3rd
2008	Larbre Compétition	David Smet Patrick Bornhauser	Saleen S7-R	GT1	306	28th	7th
2009	JMB Racing	Manuel Rodrigues Yvan Lebon	Ferrari F430 GT2	GT2	304	29th	8th
2010	Kolles Level 5 Motorsports	Scott Tucker Manuel Rodrigues	Audi R10 TDI	LMP1	182	DNF	DNF
2011	Level 5 Motorsports	Scott Tucker João Barbosa	Lola B08/80-HPD	LMP2	319	10th	3rd
2012	Level 5 Motorsports	Scott Tucker Luis Díaz	HPD ARX-03b	LMP2	240	DNF	DNF
2013	Lotus	Kevin Weeda James Rossiter	Lotus T128	LMP2	17	DNF	DNF

Complete International Formula 3000 results

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

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos.	Pts
1995	Danielson	Reynard 95D	Cosworth	SIL DSQ	CAT DSQ							10th	6
		Lola T95/50				PAU 8	PER Ret	HOC Ret	SPA 2	EST 14†	MAG Ret

Complete FIA GT Championship results

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

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Pos.	Pts
1997	Kremer Racing	Porsche 911 GT1	GT1	HOC 8	SIL	HEL	NÜR 9	SPA Ret	A1R		DON Ret	MUG 12	SEB	LAG	NC	0
	Roock Racing									SUZ 13
	Kremer Racing	Porsche 911 GT2	GT2	HOC	SIL	HEL	NÜR	SPA	A1R 6	SUZ	DON	MUG	SEB	LAG	68th	1
1998	Team Persson Motorsport	Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR	GT1	OSC Ret	SIL 7	HOC 10	DIJ 4	HUN DNS	SUZ 4	DON 8	A1R 10	HOM Ret	LAG 6		15th	7
2000	Larbre Compétition Chéreau	Porsche 911 GT3-R	N-GT	VAL 1	EST 1	MNZ 3	SIL 1	HUN 1	ZOL 2	A1R 6	LAU 2	BRN 1	MAG 1		1st	72
2001	Larbre Compétition Chéreau	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT	MNZ 2	BRN 1	MAG 2	SIL 1	ZOL 1	HUN 2	SPA 1	A1R 5	NÜR 7	JAR 4	EST 3	1st	77
2002	Larbre Compétition Chéreau	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT	MAG 3	SIL 3	BRN 2	JAR 3	AND 2	OSC Ret	SPA 1	PER 5	DON Ret	EST 4		1st	49
2003	Larbre Compétition	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT	CAT Ret	MAG Ret	PER	BRN	DON	SPA 4	AND	OSC	EST	MNZ		16th	17
2004	Zwaans GTR Racing Team	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT	MNZ 6	VAL 9	MAG 8	HOC 7	BRN	DON	SPA	IMO 15	OSC	DUB		27th	11
	Care Racing Developments	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello												ZHU 4
2005	Russian Age Racing	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	GT1	MNZ Ret	MAG 8	SIL 10	IMO Ret	BRN 8		OSC 11	IST 8				13th	24
	Larbre Compétition								SPA 3
	Russian Age Racing	Aston Martin DBR9										ZHU Ret	DUB 11	BHR 1
2006	Cirtek Motorsport	Aston Martin DBR9	GT1	SIL 4											24th	13.5
	B-Racing RS Line Team	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT			BRN 6	OSC 9
	Race Alliance	Aston Martin DBR9					SPA 8	PRI
	All-Inkl.com Racing	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT							DIJ 8	MUG Ret	HUN 8	ADR Ret	DUB
2007	All-Inkl.com Racing	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	GT1	ZHU 1	SIL	BUC 2	MNZ Ret	OSC DSQ	SPA Ret	ADR 9	BRN 6	NOG 11	ZOL 10		18th	21
2008	Selleslagh Racing Team	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GT1	SIL 4	MNZ 1	ADR 4	OSC 7	SPA Ret	BUC 5	BUC 6	BRN 3	NOG 8	ZOL Ret	SAN	13th	32.5

Complete Porsche Supercup results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Pts
2002	Larbre Compétition Chéreau	Porsche 996 GT3	ITA 2	ESP Ret	AUT Ret	MON 7	GER 9	GBR 2	GER 6	HUN 10	BEL 9	ITA 3	USA 7	USA 6	5th	119

Complete GT1 World Championship results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos.	Pts
2010	All-Inkl.com Münnich Motorsport	Lamborghini	ABU QR	ABU CR	SIL QR 17	SIL CR Ret	BRN QR	BRN CR	PRI QR 16	PRI CR 17	SPA QR 15	SPA CR Ret	NÜR QR	NÜR CR	ALG QR Ret	ALG CR 17	NAV QR 8	NAV CR Ret	INT QR EX	INT CR EX	SAN QR	SAN CR	50th	0

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos.	Pts
2013	Lotus	LMP2	Lotus T128	Praga Judd 3.6 L V8	SIL Ret	SPA	LMS Ret	SÃO Ret	COA	FUJ	SHA Ret	BHR	NC	0
2014	Lotus	LMP1	CLM P1/01	AER P60 Turbo V6	SIL	SPA	LMS	COA 15	FUJ Ret	SHA	BHR	SÃO	25th	0.5

Complete Blancpain Sprint Series results

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Pos.	Pts
2015	GT Russian Team	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	Pro-Am	NOG QR 14	NOG CR 9	BRH QR	BRH CR	ZOL QR	ZOL CR	MOS QR 13	MOS CR 12	ALG QR 12	ALG CR 10	MIS QR 14	MIS CR 15	ZAN QR	ZAN CR	25th	3

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Whelen Euro Series - Elite 1

NASCAR Whelen Euro Series - Elite 1 results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	NWES	Pts
2014	DF1 Racing	77	Chevy	VAL 10	VAL 7	BRH 6	BRH 3	TOU 22	TOU 21	NÜR 10	NÜR 10	UMB	UMB	BUG	BUG		20th	264
2015		66		VAL 19	VAL DNS	VEN	VEN	BRH DNS	BRH DNS	TOU	TOU	UMB	UMB	ZOL	ZOL		32nd	64
2017	DF1 Racing	66	Chevy	VAL 3	VAL 5	BRH 8	BRH 23	VEN	VEN 17	HOC 21	HOC 5	FRA 16	FRA 11	ZOL	ZOL		17th	357
2018	Dexwet-df1 Racing			VAL 29	VAL 26	FRA 9	FRA 7	BRH 6	BRH 5	TOU	TOU	HOC	HOC	ZOL 7	ZOL 7		21st	260
2019				VAL 9	VAL DNS	FRA 11	FRA DNS										33rd*	56*
	Alex Caffi Motorsport	1	Ford					BRH	BRH	MOS DNS	MOS 23	VEN	HOC	HOC	ZOL	ZOL

^* Season still in progress.

References

1. "CV - Christophe Bouchut". Bouchut.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-11. Retrieved 2012-02-04.

External links

• Official homepage
• Christophe Bouchut driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Christophe Bouchut career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Éric Hélary	French Formula Three Champion 1991	Succeeded by Franck Lagorce
Preceded by Derek Warwick Yannick Dalmas Mark Blundell	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1993 with: Geoff Brabham Éric Hélary	Succeeded by Yannick Dalmas Hurley Haywood Mauro Baldi
Preceded by Dominique Dupuy	Porsche Carrera Cup France Champion 1994–1996	Succeeded by Dominique Dupuy
Preceded by Dominique Dupuy	Porsche Carrera Cup France Champion 2000	Succeeded by Philippe Gache
Preceded by Julian Bailey Jamie Campbell-Walter	FIA GT Champion 2001–2002 with: Jean-Philippe Belloc (2001)	Succeeded by Thomas Biagi Matteo Bobbi
Preceded by Soheil Ayari	French Touring Car Champion 2003	Succeeded by Soheil Ayari
Preceded by Soheil Ayari Raymond Narac	FFSA GT Champion 2008 with: (Patrick Bornhauser)	Succeeded by Eric Debard