Jesús Ángel Pareja Mayo (born 6 March 1955) is a retired Spanish racing driver.[1] Pareja drove in the FIA World Sports-Prototype Championship, the Spanish Touring Car Championship and Global GT Championship.

The 1990 Montreal incident

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Pareja was involved in a massive accident during the 1990 WSPC round at Montreal. On his 59th lap driving a Porsche 962C entered by (and shared with) Walter Brun, he hit a fragment of a manhole cover which had been torn out of the ground by a car further ahead. Several cars hit the debris but Pareja was especially unfortunate. His fuel tank was ruptured and the car immediately burst into flames. Remarkably, the marshals were able to put the fire out and rescue Pareja.

Later career

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Jesús Pareja was a winner of the Le Mans 24 hours in the GT2 class in 1994. From 1999, Pareja had been involved with the running of the European GT Championship and the Spanish Formula 3 Championship.

Jesús Pareja is the founder and CEO of GT Sport which was created in 1998 and runs the International GT Open and the Euroformula open.

Racing results

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24 Hours of Le Mans results

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Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1985   Ducados Obermaier Racing   Jürgen Lässig
  Hervé Regout
Porsche 956 Gr. C1 357 8th 8th
1986   Brun Motorsport   Joël Gouhier
  Oscar Larrauri
Porsche 962C Cr. C1 360 2nd 2nd
1987   Brun Motorsport   Oscar Larrauri
  Uwe Schäfer
Porsche 962C Cr. C1 40 DNF DNF
1988   Repsol Brun Motorsport   Uwe Schäfer
  Massimo Sigala
Porsche 962C C1 372 7th 7th
1989   Brun Motorsport   Walter Brun
  Oscar Larrauri
Porsche 962C C1 242 DNF DNF
1990   Repsol Brun Motorsport   Walter Brun
  Oscar Larrauri
Porsche 962C C1 353 DNF DNF
1991   Brun Motorsport   Walter Brun
  Oscar Larrauri
Porsche 962C C2 338 10th 10th
1992   Euro Racing   Cor Euser
  Charles Zwolsman
Lola T92/10-Judd C1 50 DNF DNF
1993   Jack Leconte
  Larbre Compétition
  Pierre de Thoisy
  Jack Leconte
Porsche 911 Carrera RSR C4 301 16th 2nd
1994   Larbre Compétition   Dominique Dupuy
  Carlos Palau
Porsche 911 Carrera RSR LMGT2 307 8th 1st
1995   Société Larbre Compétition   Érik Comas
  Jean-Pierre Jarier
Porsche 911 GT2 Evo LMGT1 64 DNF DNF
1996   Roock Racing Team   Dominic Chappell
  Jean-Pierre Jarier
Porsche 911 GT2 Evo LMGT1 93 DNF DNF
1997   Pacific Racing Ltd.   Eliseo Salazar
  Harri Toivonen
BRM P301-Nissan LMP 6 DNF DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Profile". driverdb.com. Retrieved 7 July 2012.