Pierre Dieudonné (born 24 March 1947 in Brussels) is a Belgian auto racing driver and motoring journalist.
Career Dieudonné spent a large part of his career competing in touring car racing. He twice finished third in the European Touring Car Championship in 1977 and 1979. He won two consecutive Spa 24 Hours in 1974 and 1975 with a BMW 3.0 CSi. He won the title again in 1981 alongside Tom Walkinshaw in a Mazda RX-7.
In 1987, Dieudonné competed in the inaugural World Touring Car Championship for the Eggenberger Motorsport works Ford team driving the RS Cosworth and RS500 versions of the Ford Sierra. His teammates for the championship were West German pair Klaus Ludwig and Klaus Niedzwiedz and Englishman Steve Soper, who was his regular co-driver. He won Round 8 of the championship, the Bob Jane T-Marts 500 at the Calder Park Raceway in Australia, which was run on a combined road course and the NASCAR-style "Thunderdome" high-banked oval, driving with Soper, and finished fifth in the championship (Dieudonné and Soper had won the Bathurst 1000 in Australia the week before the Calder race, but were disqualified for illegal wheel arch modifications). He finished third in the ETCC in the 1988 season, again for Eggenberger. Dieudonné competed in one round of the 1989 British Touring Car Championship for JQF Engineering with Chris Hodgetts in a Ford Sierra RS500.Official 1989 BTCC standings British Touring Car Championship That same year he was a 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans GTP Class winner with Hodgetts and David Kennedy for Mazdaspeed. The 1991 24 Hours of Le Mans saw him finish eighth for Mazdaspeed in a Mazda 787 in the C2 Class.
Dieudonné also made the trip to Australia on other occasions to drive in the Bathurst 1000. After the 1987 disqualification, he returned in 1988 to drive a Sierra alongside Andrew Bagnall (Bagnall's Sierra was an Andy Rouse 'kit car', Rouse being the pioneer of racing Sierras in Europe and one of the main Sierra's rivals to the Eggenberger team). After Dieudonné qualified the car in seventh place, the car ran into overheating problems and only lasted nine of the scheduled 161 laps. He returned in 1989 to drive an Eggenberger built Sierra for Allan Moffat Racing with Gregg Hansford, the pair qualified 14th but the car was out after only 30 laps. Again racing for Moffat in 1990, "The Dude" (as he was known in Australia) drove both team cars, recording a DNF in the car he shared with Hansford and Niedzwiedz, and 10th in the teams lead car with Niedzwiedz and Biela in what was his last race at the Mount Panorama Circuit.
Career results Season Series Position Car Team 1973 European Formula Super Vee Championship 21st 1975 B.A.R.C. BP Super Visco British F3 Championship 9th March 753-BMW Bang & Olufsen Team Michel Vaillant 1975 Italian Formula Three Championship NC March 753-BMW Bang & Olufsen Team Michel Vaillant 1976 B.A.R.C. BP Super Visco British F3 Championship 18th March 743-Toyota Dr. Joseph Ehrlich 1976 B.R.D.C. Shellsport British F3 Championship 21st March 743-Toyota Dr. Joseph Ehrlich 1976 European Touring Car Championship 1st BMW 3.0 CSL Luigi Racing 1977 European Touring Car Championship 3rd BMW 3.0 CSL Luigi Racing 1977 B.R.D.C. Vandervell British F3 Championship 25th Ehrlich ES6-Toyota Dr. Joseph Ehrlich 1979 European Touring Car Championship 3rd BMW 3.0 CSL Luigi Racing 1980 Belgian Touring Car Championship 1st Mazda RX-7 Tom Walkinshaw Racing 1982 World Sportscar Championship 70th Ferrari 512BB LMURD C81-BMW Prancing Horse Farm RacingURD Junior 1985 European Touring Car Championship 9th Volvo 240T Eggenberger Motorsport 1985 World Sportscar Championship 93rd Cheetah G604-Aston Martin Cheetah Switzerland 1986 FIA Touring Car Championship 12th Ford Sierra XR4Ti Eggenberger Motorsport 1987 World Touring Car Championship 5th Ford Sierra RS CosworthFord Sierra RS500 Eggenberger Motorsport 1988 European Touring Car Championship 3rd Ford Sierra RS500 Eggenberger Motorsport 1988 Belgian Touring Car Championship Div 2 25th Suzuki Swift GTi Suzuki Belgium 1989 British Touring Car Championship 50th Ford Sierra RS500 JQF Engineering 1989 World Sportscar Championship 46th Mazda 767B Mazdaspeed 1989 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft 37th Ford Sierra RS500 Ringshausen Motorsport 1990 Australian Endurance Championship 41st Ford Sierra RS500 Allan Moffat Racing 1990 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship 26th Mazda 767BMazda 787 Mazdaspeed 1991 All Japan Sports Prototype Car Endurance Championship 33rd Mazda 787B Mazdaspeed 1991 World Sportscar Championship 34th Mazda 787B Mazdaspeed
Complete World Touring Car Championship 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 11 DC Points 1987 Ford Texaco Racing Team Ford Sierra RS Cosworth MNZDSQ JARovr:4cls:1 DIJovr:4cls:2 NURRet SPARet 5th 193 Ford Sierra RS500 BNOovr:2cls:2 SILovr:13cls:4 BATDSQ CLDovr:1cls:1 WELovr:3cls:2 FJIovr:5cls:3 Silverstone shows overall results for all cars. For registered WTCC cars, Dieudonné finished 7th in points and 2nd in class.
Complete Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Team Car 1 2 3 4 DC Points 1988 Miedecke Motorsport Ford Sierra RS500 BATRet WELRet PUK7 FJI NC 0
Complete British Touring Car Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.) Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 DC Pts Class 1989 JQF Engineering Ford Sierra RS500 OUL SIL THR DONovr:5‡cls:5‡ THR SIL SIL BRH SNE BRH BIR DON SIL 51st 2 20th ‡ Endurance driver.
Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft 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 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DC Pts 1989 Ford Ringhausen Motorsport Ford Sierra RS500 ZOL1 ZOL2 HOC1 HOC2 NÜR1 NÜR2 MFA1 MFA2 AVU1 AVU2 NÜR1 NÜR2 NOR1 NOR2 HOC1 HOC2 DIE1 DIE2 NÜR1 NÜR2 HOC1 HOC2 38th 6
Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 1977 Luigi Racing Jean Xhenceval Spartaco Dini BMW 3.0 CSL IMSA 294 8th 1st 1980 JMS Racing Charles Pozzi Jean Xhenceval Hervé Regout Ferrari 512BB/LM IMSA 312 10th 3rd 1981 Rennod Racing Jean Xhenceval Jean-Paul Libert Ferrari 512BB/LM IMSA 320 9th 3rd 1982 Prancing Horse Farm Racing Carson Baird Jean-Paul Libert Ferrari 512BB/LM IMSA GTX 322 6th 3rd 1984 Mazdaspeed Takashi Yorino Yojiro Terada Mazda 727C C2 261 20th 6th 1986 Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. David Kennedy Mark Galvin Mazda 757 GTP 137 DNF DNF 1987 Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. David Kennedy Mark Galvin Mazda 757 GTP 319 7th 1st 1988 Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. Yojiro Terada David Kennedy Mazda 757 GTP 337 15th 1st 1989 Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. David Kennedy Chris Hodgetts Mazda 767B GTP 368 7th 1st 1990 Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. Stefan Johansson David Kennedy Mazda 787 C2 147 DNF DNF 1991 Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. Oreca Takashi Yorino Yojiro Terada Mazda 787 C2 346 8th 8th
Complete Spa 24 Hour results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 1974 Luigi Racing Jean Xhenceval Alain Peltier BMW 3.0 CSi Div.4 194 1st 1st 1975 Luigi Racing Jean Xhenceval Hughes de Fierlant BMW 3.0 CSi Div.4 300 1st 1st 1976 Luigi Racing Jean Xhenceval Martino Finotto BMW 3.0 CSL Div.4 NA DNF DNF 1977 Luigi BMW Racing with Castrol Jean Xhenceval BMW 530i US +2500 NA DNF DNF 1978 Luigi Racing Lotto Jo De Gheldere J.P. Wielemans BMW 530i US +2500 281 9th 7th 1979 Team Willeme Thierry Boutsen Philippe Bervoets BMW 530i +2500 NA DNF DNF 1980 Juma Eddy Joosen Dirk Vermeersch BMW 530i +2500 425 2nd 2nd 1981 Tom Walkinshaw Racing Tom Walkinshaw Mazda RX-7 -2500 456 1st 1st 1982 Team Motul Jaguar Jeff Allam Pete Lovett Jaguar XJS Div.3 (9th Hour) DNF DNF 1983 TWR Jaguar Racing with Motul Tom Walkinshaw Jaguar XJS Div.3 (11th Hour) DNF DNF 1984 GTM Engineering Michel Delcourt Philippe Bervoets Jean-Marie Baert Volvo 240T Div.3 422 15th 15th 1985 Eggenberger Motorsport Carlo Rossi Didier Theys Volvo 240T Div.3 489 4th 4th 1986 Eggenberger Motorsport Siegfried Müller Jr. Manuel Reuter Ford Sierra XR4Ti Div.3 35 DNF DNF 1987 Eggenberger Motorsport Steve Soper Philippe Streiff Ford Sierra RS Cosworth Div.3 322 DNF DNF 1988 Eggenberger Motorsport Klaus Ludwig Thierry Boutsen Ford Sierra RS500 Div.3 506 2nd 1st
Complete Bathurst 1000 results Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 1987 Ford Texaco Racing Team Steve Soper Ford Sierra RS500 1 161 DSQ DSQ 1988 Andrew Bagnall Andrew Bagnall Ford Sierra RS500 A 9 DNF DNF 1989 Allan Moffat Enterprises Gregg Hansford Ford Sierra RS500 A 30 DNF DNF 1990 Allan Moffat Enterprises Frank Biela Klaus Niedzwiedz Ford Sierra RS500 1 151 10th 10th Gregg Hansford Klaus Niedzwiedz Ford Sierra RS500 1 138 DNF DNF
References
External links
Career highlights at race driver archive History of Touring Car Racing