Jesús Pareja

Jesús Ángel Pareja Mayo (born 6 March 1955) is a retired Spanish racing driver.{{cite web|title=Profile |url=http://www.driverdb.com/drivers/jesus-pareja-mayo/career/|publisher=driverdb.com|access-date=7 July 2012}}

Pareja drove in the FIA World Sports-Prototype Championship, the Spanish Touring Car Championship and Global GT Championship.

The 1990 Montreal incident

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

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

=24 Hours of Le Mans results=

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"
Year ! Team ! Co-Drivers ! Car ! Class ! Laps ! {{Tooltip\|Pos.\|Overall Position}} ! {{Tooltip\|Class Pos.\|Class Position}}
1985 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|DEU}} Ducados Obermaier Racing \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|DEU}} Jürgen Lässig {{flagicon\|BEL}} Hervé Regout \|align="left"\| Porsche 956 \| Gr. C1 \| 357 \| 8th \| 8th
1986 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|SUI}} Brun Motorsport \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Joël Gouhier {{flagicon\|ARG}} Oscar Larrauri \|align="left"\| Porsche 962C \| Cr. C1 \| 360 \|style="background:#DFDFDF;"\| 2nd \|style="background:#DFDFDF;"\| 2nd
1987 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|SUI}} Brun Motorsport \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|ARG}} Oscar Larrauri {{flagicon\|DEU}} Uwe Schäfer \|align="left"\| Porsche 962C \| Cr. C1 \| 40 \| DNF \| DNF
1988 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|SUI}} Repsol Brun Motorsport \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|DEU}} Uwe Schäfer {{flagicon\|ITA}} Massimo Sigala \|align="left"\| Porsche 962C \| C1 \| 372 \| 7th \| 7th
1989 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|SUI}} Brun Motorsport \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|SUI}} Walter Brun {{flagicon\|ARG}} Oscar Larrauri \|align="left"\| Porsche 962C \| C1 \| 242 \| DNF \| DNF
1990 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|SUI}} Repsol Brun Motorsport \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|SUI}} Walter Brun {{flagicon\|ARG}} Oscar Larrauri \|align="left"\| Porsche 962C \| C1 \| 353 \| DNF \| DNF
1991 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|SUI}} Brun Motorsport \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|SUI}} Walter Brun {{flagicon\|ARG}} Oscar Larrauri \|align="left"\| Porsche 962C \| C2 \| 338 \| 10th \| 10th
1992 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|NLD}} Euro Racing \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|NLD}} Cor Euser {{flagicon\|NLD}} Charles Zwolsman \|align="left"\| Lola T92/10-Judd \| C1 \| 50 \| DNF \| DNF
1993 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Jack Leconte {{flagicon\|FRA}} Larbre Compétition \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Pierre de Thoisy {{flagicon\|FRA}} Jack Leconte \|align="left"\| Porsche 911 Carrera RSR \| C4 \| 301 \| 16th \|style="background:#DFDFDF;"\| 2nd
1994 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Larbre Compétition \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Dominique Dupuy {{flagicon\|ESP}} Carlos Palau \|align="left"\| Porsche 911 Carrera RSR \| LMGT2 \| 308 \| 8th \|style="background:#FFFFBF;"\| 1st
1995 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Société Larbre Compétition \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Érik Comas {{flagicon\|FRA}} Jean-Pierre Jarier \|align="left"\| Porsche 911 GT2 Evo \| LMGT1 \| 64 \| DNF \| DNF
1996 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|DEU}} Roock Racing Team \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|GBR}} Dominic Chappell {{flagicon\|FRA}} Jean-Pierre Jarier \|align="left"\| Porsche 911 GT2 Evo \| LMGT1 \| 93 \| DNF \| DNF
1997 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|GBR}} Pacific Racing Ltd. \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|CHI}} Eliseo Salazar {{flagicon\|FIN}} Harri Toivonen \|align="left"\| BRM P301-Nissan \| LMP \| 6 \| DNF \| DNF

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:90%"

Year

! Team

! Co-Drivers

! Car

! Class

! Laps

! {{Tooltip|Pos.|Overall Position}}

! {{Tooltip|Class
Pos.|Class Position}}

1985

|align="left"| {{flagicon|DEU}} Ducados Obermaier Racing

|align="left"| {{flagicon|DEU}} Jürgen Lässig
{{flagicon|BEL}} Hervé Regout