1. Jean-Pierre Beltoise was a class winner at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1976 with Inaltera.
15 Facts About Jean-Pierre Beltoise
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Jean-Pierre Beltoise won 11 French national motorcycle road racing titles in three years.
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Jean-Pierre Beltoise competed in international Grand Prix motorcycle racing from the 1962 to 1964 seasons in the 50,125,250 and 500 cc classes.
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Jean-Pierre Beltoise's best finish was a sixth place in the 1964 50 cc World Championship.
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In 1966, Jean-Pierre Beltoise drove in the German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring in a Formula Two one litre Matra MS5-Cosworth.
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Jean-Pierre Beltoise finished one lap down but won the F2 class.
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In 1967 Jean-Pierre Beltoise competed in three Grands Prix with a Formula Two Matra MS7 1.6 litre Cosworth, and finished seventh at both Watkins Glen and Mexico City.
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Jean-Pierre Beltoise won the 1967 Buenos Aires Grand Prix, which was not part of the World Championship calendar.
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In 1968 Jean-Pierre Beltoise began the season again with an F2 car but from the second race onward had Formula One machinery and finished second in the 1968 Dutch Grand Prix.
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Jean-Pierre Beltoise returned to the works Matra team for both 1970 and 1971.
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In that same year, Jean-Pierre Beltoise won a non-championship race in the end of the F1 season, at Brands Hatch, thus marking the last two victories of BRM make in Formula One.
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Jean-Pierre Beltoise spent three seasons with BRM, and finally retired from Formula 1 at the end of the 1974 season.
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Jean-Pierre Beltoise later did most of the testing for the Ligier F1 team, although a proposed Formula One drive for 1976 went instead to Jacques Laffite and he thereafter turned his attention to touring car racing in France, twice winning the French title for BMW before entering rallycross in an Alpine-Renault with which he won the French title.
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In fiction, Jean-Pierre Beltoise frequently appeared in the Michel Vaillant series of comic books, amongst others being part of the winning Vaillante Le Mans team.
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Jean-Pierre Beltoise died at his holiday home in Dakar, Senegal, on 5 January 2015, aged 77, following two strokes.