Stéphane Ortelli

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Stéphane Ortelli
Stéphane Ortelli in the Porsche GT1.jpg
Stéphane sitting in the 1998 Le Mans winning Porsche GT1-98. Stéphane won the race along with Allan McNish and Laurent Aïello.
Nationality Monaco Monagasque
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years 19952002, 20042007, 2009
Teams Larbre Compétition
New Hardware Racing/Parr Motorsport
Roock Racing
Porsche AG
Audi Sport UK
Audi Sport Team Joest
Team Bentley
Pescarolo Sport
Freisinger Motorsport
Audi PlayStation Team Oreca
Aston Martin Racing
Team Oreca Matmut
Best finish 1st (1998)
Class wins 1 (1998)

Stéphane Ortelli (born 30 March 1970, Hyères, France) is a Monagasque motor racing driver who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1998. He also won the GT1 Class at the 12 Hours of Sebring in 2005, driving for Aston Martin.

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[edit] 2008 Monza Le Mans Series crash

On April 27, 2008, during a Le Mans Series race at the Monza circuit, Ortelli lost control of his Courage car under braking which caused him to slide onto the grass. This in turn instigated a cartwheeling motion upon the vehicle, which resulted in most of the car's bodywork and all but one wheel being torn off before it came to rest on the opposite side of the track. It narrowly missed the tail of Allan McNish's Audi R10 which was in front. Ortelli sustained a broken ankle as a result.[1]

[edit] Career

[edit] Complete WTCC 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 Position Points
2005 Team Oreca Playstation SEAT Toledo Cupra MON Italy MGN France SLV United Kingdom IMO Italy PUE Mexico SPA Belgium OSC Germany IST Turkey VAL Spain MAC Macau 20th 3
6 15 Ret Ret 9 22
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Michele Alboreto
Stefan Johansson
Tom Kristensen
Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
1998 with:
Laurent Aïello
Allan McNish
Succeeded by
Pierluigi Martini
Yannick Dalmas
Joachim Winkelhock
Preceded by
Jörg Bergmeister
Porsche Supercup champion
2002
Succeeded by
Frank Stippler


[edit] References

  1. ^ Strang, Simon (2008-04-27). "Ortelli breaks ankle in horror crash". Autosport.com. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66987. Retrieved 2008-05-06. 

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