Jean de Pourtales

Jean de Pourtales
Nationality	French
Born	August 19, 1965 (age 58)
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	2007 – 2010
Teams	Kruse Motorsport (KSM)
Best finish	26th (2010)
Class wins	0

Jean de Pourtales (born 19 August 1965) is a French racing driver from Neuilly-sur-Seine. Before his motorsport career, de Pourtales was a member of the British junior alpine ski team, and attended the junior world ski championships. However, an accident unfortunately cut short his skiing career. De Pourtales began his career in British Formula Vauxhall Junior in 1995 and moved to British Formula Renault in 1998 and finished 10th. He competed in Euro Formula 3000 part-time in 1999 and from 2001 to 2004 with his best season finish being 17th in 2003. Since then he has participated part-time in the Le Mans Series LMP2 class and the 24 Hours of Le Mans for Kruse Schiller Motorsport.

Handicap edit

Jean de Pourtales is a rarity in motorsport, as he competes with an artificial limb. A road accident in his twenties resulted in the loss of his left hand and forearm and has since raced with a special steering wheel that attaches to a prosthetic arm enabling him to compete just like his rivals.

24 Hours of Le Mans results edit

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2007	Kruse Motorsport	Tony Burgess Norbert Siedler	Pescarolo 01-Judd	LMP2	98	DNF	DNF
2008	Kruse Schiller Motorsport	Hideki Noda Allan Simonsen	Lola B05/40-Mazda	LMP2	147	DNF	DNF
2009	Kruse Schiller Motorsport	Hideki Noda Matthew Marsh	Lola B07/46-Mazda	LMP2	261	DNF	DNF
2010	Kruse Schiller Motorsport	Hideki Noda Jonathan Kennard	Lola B07/40-Judd	LMP2	291	26th	10th
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