Patrick Bornhauser

{{short description|French racing driver and businessman|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| name = Patrick Bornhauser

| image = Patrick Bornhauser Driver of Larbre Competition's Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1 (8667972457).jpg

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| caption = Patrick Bornhauser, 2013

| nationality = {{flagicon|FRA}} French

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1957|6|29|df=y}}

| birth_place = Orléans, France

| racing licence = 12px FIA Bronze

| current series = FIA World Endurance Championship

| first year = 2012

| current team = Larbre Compétition

| car number = 50

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| prev series = Intercontinental Le Mans Cup
American Le Mans Series
Le Mans Series
FIA GT Championship
FIA GT3 European Championship
FFSA GT Championship
Global GT Championship
Peugeot 905 Spider Cup

| prev series years = 2011
2011
2008, 11
2006
2006
1997–99, 2003–
1995–96
1994

| titles = FFSA GT Championship

| title years = 2004–05, 08, 10

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{{Infobox Le Mans driver|subbox=yes

| Years = {{24hLM|2006}}–{{24hLM|2008}}, {{24hLM|2011}}–{{24hLM|2013}}

| Team(s) = Larbre Competition

| Best Finish = 20th ({{24hLM|2011}}, {{24hLM|2012}})

| Class Wins = 2 ({{24hLM|2011}}, {{24hLM|2012}})

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Patrick Bornhauser (born 29 June 1957 in Orléans) is a French racing driver and businessman. In 2011 and 2012 he won the GTE-Am class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Racing career

Bornhauser started competing in hillclimbing and then rallying.{{cite web|url=http://www.europeanlemansseries.com/palmares/Patrick_Bornhauser.pdf|title=Palmares|work=europeanlemansseries.com|publisher=ACO|date=27 December 2011|accessdate=21 June 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605051701/http://www.europeanlemansseries.com/palmares/Patrick_Bornhauser.pdf|archivedate=5 June 2014}} In 1994 he started circuit racing in the Peugeot 905 Spider Cup, finishing fifth.

From 1995 he raced the VBM 400 GTC (VBM stood for Vehicles Bornhauser-Metz, started by Bornhauser and fellow driver Jean-François Metz), in BPR Global GT Series races in 1995–96 and then in French GT until 2001.

Bornhauser switched to a Porsche for 2002, and then to a Chrysler Viper GTS-R in 2004 with which he won his first French GT titles in 2004 and 2005. In 2006 he made his 24 Hours of Le Mans debut in a Larbre Competition Ferrari 550 Maranello. The following year he raced an Aston Martin DBR9 for Larbre.

In 2008 he won the French GT title for a third time after sharing a Larbre-run Saleen S7 with Christophe Bouchut, which they also raced at Le Mans. Bornhauser regained the French GT title in 2010 in a Larbre-run Porsche together with Laurent Groppi.

After two years away, Bornhauser returned to Le Mans in 2011 and won the GTE-Am class in a Chevrolet Corvette C6.R entered by Larbre. He repeated the feat with the same team and car in 2012.

Business

Bornhauser is the Group CEO of French moving company Demeco.

24 Hours of Le Mans results

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Year ! Team ! Co-Drivers ! Car ! Class ! Laps ! {{Tooltip\|Pos.\|Overall Position}} ! {{Tooltip\|Class Pos.\|Class Position}}
2006 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Larbre Compétition \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Jean-Luc Blanchemain {{flagicon\|SUI}} Gabriele Gardel \|align="left"\| Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello \| GT1 \| 222 \| DNF \| DNF
2007 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Aston Martin Racing Larbre \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Roland Bervillé {{flagicon\|GBR}} Gregor Fisken \|align="left"\| Aston Martin DBR9 \| GT1 \| 272 \| 29th \| 13th
2008 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Larbre Compétition \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} David Smet {{flagicon\|FRA}} Christophe Bouchut \|align="left"\| Saleen S7-R \| GT1 \| 306 \| 28th \| 7th
2011 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Larbre Compétition \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Julien Canal {{flagicon\|SUI}} Gabriele Gardel \|align="left"\| Chevrolet Corvette C6.R \| GTE Am \| 302 \| 20th \|style="background:#FFFFBF;"\| 1st
2012 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Larbre Compétition \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Julien Canal {{flagicon\|POR}} Pedro Lamy \|align="left"\| Chevrolet Corvette C6.R \| GTE Am \| 329 \| 20th \|style="background:#FFFFBF;"\| 1st
2013 \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Larbre Compétition \|align="left"\| {{flagicon\|FRA}} Julien Canal {{flagicon\|USA}} Ricky Taylor \|align="left"\| Chevrolet Corvette C6.R \| GTE Am \| 302 \| 29th \| 5th

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2006

|align="left"| {{flagicon|FRA}} Larbre Compétition

|align="left"| {{flagicon|FRA}} Jean-Luc Blanchemain
{{flagicon|SUI}} Gabriele Gardel