Jean-Pierre_Nicolas

Jean-Pierre Nicolas

Jean-Pierre Nicolas

French rally driver (born 1945)

For the French deputy, see Jean-Pierre Nicolas (politician).

Jean-Pierre Nicolas (born 22 January 1945) is a French former rally driver who competed mainly in the 1970s.

Quick Facts Personal information, Nationality ...

Nicolas took five WRC event wins in the World Rally Championship. His best result in the drivers' championship was second with 31 points, after Markku Alén (53) and ahead of Hannu Mikkola (30), in the 1978 FIA Cup for Drivers.[1]

Nicolas was born in Marseille. He was the Sporting Director for Peugeot in the WRC until 2005, around the time the 206 WRC and the short-lived factory-spec 307 WRC from 2004 to 2005 was the official works Peugeot car. He was then the FIA Intercontinental Rally Challenge's Motorsport Development Manager.

WRC wins

More information #, Event ...
Nicolas and Jean-Claude Lefèbvre won the 26th Safari Rally in 1978 driving a Peugeot 504 V6 Coupé

Complete IMC results

More information Year, Entrant ...

References

  1. [1]
    RallyBase – 1978 FIA Cup for Rally Drivers Archived 2007-01-05 at the Wayback Machine


Stub icon

This biographical article related to French rallying is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Jean-Pierre_Nicolas, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.