Jean-Philippe Belloc

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Jean-Philippe Belloc
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Belloc at the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans driver parade
Nationality	French
Participating years	1997–2002, 2007, 2011
Teams	La Filière Elf Courage Compétition Viper/Mopar Team Oreca Larbre Compétition Equipe de France FFSA
Best finish	7th (1997)
Class wins	0

Jean-Philippe Belloc is a racecar driver from France. He was born in Montauban, in 24 April 1970.

Belloc started racing in single-seaters and won the French Formula Renault Championship in 1992, at his second attempt, after four wins. Moving up to the French Formula Three Championship in 1993, he took the title the following year with five wins.^[1] He raced in Formula 3000 until 1997.

After a few seasons with occasional races in the French Porsche Carrera Cup, he became a full-time sports car racing driver in 1998, when he was third in the Carrera Cup. The following year he became a Chrysler works driver, in the Oreca Chrysler Viper GTS-R, and took third place in the FIA GT Championship, also racing in the American Le Mans Series. In 2001 he became FIA GT Champion, also winning the Spa 24 Hours.^[1]

From 2002, Belloc raced mainly in the ALMS, for Carsport America, but also took part in the French Supertouring Championship, FIA Sportscar Championship and FIA GT Championship. In 2006 he drove occasionally in the FIA GT, ALMS and Le Mans Series, where he took an LMP2 class win at the 1000 km Istanbul. For 2007 he drove an Oreca Saleen S7-R in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.^[2]

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1997	La Filière Elf	Henri Pescarolo Emmanuel Clérico	Courage C36-Porsche	LMP	319	7th	4th
1998	Courage Compétition	Didier Cottaz Marc Goossens	Courage C51-Nissan	LMP1	232	DNF	DNF
1999	Viper Team Oreca	David Donohue Soheil Ayari	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	271	DNF	DNF
2000	Mopar Team Oreca	Yannick Dalmas Nicolas Minassian	Reynard 2KQ-LM-Mopar	LMP900	1	DNF	DNF
2001	Larbre Compétition	Christophe Bouchut Tiago Monteiro	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	234	20th	4th
2002	Equipe de France FFSA Oreca	Jonathan Cochet Benoît Tréluyer	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	326	14th	3rd
2007	Team Oreca	Laurent Groppi Nicolas Prost	Saleen S7-R	GT1	337	10th	5th
2011	Larbre Compétition	Christophe Bourret Pascal Gibon	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Am	301	21st	2nd
2012	Larbre Compétition	Christophe Bourret Pascal Gibon	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	GTE Am	309	28th	5th

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Didier Cottaz	French Formula Three Champion 1994	Succeeded by Laurent Redon

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Name	Belloc, Jean-Philippe
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Short description	French racing driver
Date of birth	1970
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