Luc Alphand

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Luc Alphand (born 6 August 1965) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from France. He specialized in the speed events and later became a race car driver.

Ski racing

Born in Briançon (Hautes-Alpes), Alphand was world junior champion in 1983 and made his World Cup debut in 1984. It took a decade for him to make his breakthrough winning his first world cup at Kitzbühel 1995, and going on to take the overall downhill title 3 years in a row. In 1997 he won the World Cup overall title by collecting points only in the two speed disciplines, downhill and super G – a unique achievement in World Cup history. For this accomplishment he was voted L'Equipe Champion of Champions in 1997.[1] The previous year he won a bronze medal at the 1996 World Championships at Sierra Nevada, Spain.

In the village of Chantemerle (which neighbours his home town of Briançon in the Serre-Chevalier region) an expert ski run has been named in his honour.

His daughter, Estelle Alphand, represents Sweden in FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.

World Cup results

Season standings

Season Age Overall Slalom Giant
Slalom		 Super G Downhill Combined
1988 22 61 — — 16 37 —
1989 23 40 — — 10 — —
1990 24 80 — — 21 — —
1991 25 35 — — 10 17 —
1992 26 53 — — 19 25 —
1993 27 59 — — 20 40 23
1994 28 27 — — 17 14 —
1995 29 8 — — 14 1 11
1996 30 4 — — 4 1 —
1997 31 1 — — 1 1 —

Season titles

Season Discipline
1995 Downhill
1996 Downhill
1997 Overall
Downhill
Super G

Race victories

  • 12 wins (10 DH, 2 SG)
  • 23 podiums (18 DH, 5 SG)
Season Date Location Discipline
1995 13 Jan 1995 Template:Flagicon Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill
14 Jan 1995 Downhill
15 Mar 1995 Template:Flagicon Bormio, Italy Downhill
1996 1 Dec 1995 Template:Flagicon Vail, USA Downhill
9 Dec 1995 Template:Flagicon Val-d'Isère, France Downhill
2 Feb 1996 Template:Flagicon Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Downhill
1997 20 Dec 1996 Template:Flagicon Val Gardena, Italy Downhill
29 Dec 1996 Template:Flagicon Bormio, Italy Downhill
24 Jan 1997 Template:Flagicon Kitzbühel, Austria Downhill
29 Jan 1997 Template:Flagicon Laax, Switzerland Super-G
21 Feb 1997 Template:Flagicon Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Super-G
22 Feb 1997 Downhill

Other results

  • Junior World Champion of the downhill in 1983
  • French Alpine Skiing Championship
    • Champion of the downhill in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990 and 1994
    • Champion of the super-G in 1988
    • Champion of combined in 1987

Auto racing

Template:Infobox Le Mans driver He retired from competitive skiing in 1997 and started a career in auto racing. First in the Nissan Micra Stars Cup (1997–1998), then in the European Le Mans Series (2001), the FIA GT Championship (2002), and the Lamborghini Supertrophy (2002). He won the 2006 Dakar Rally, in which he had finished runner-up a year earlier. With this victory, he was the first ex-skier to win the Paris-Dakar. He recently purchased two Corvette race cars from Pratt & Miller for use in the Le Mans Series and 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Alphand suffered severe back injuries in an accident on the Rand'Auvergne all-terrain motorcycle race on 27 June 2009.[2] In November 2010 he retired from competitive auto racing for health reasons.

From 2021 to 2022, he was the sporting director for the Silk Way Rally. He departed the position following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3] Alphand became the Extreme E team principal for Veloce Racing in late 2022.[4]

24 Hours of Le Mans results

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2001 Template:Flagicon Warm-Up Luc Alphand Aventures
Template:Flagicon JMB Racing 		Template:Flagicon Michel Ligonnet
Template:Flagicon Luis Marques 		Porsche 911 GT3-RS GT 265 17th 8th
2002 Template:Flagicon Luc Alphand Aventures Template:Flagicon Christian Lavieille
Template:Flagicon Olivier Thévenin 		Porsche 911 GT3-RS GT 299 24th 5th
2003 Template:Flagicon Luc Alphand Aventures Template:Flagicon Jérôme Policand
Template:Flagicon Frédéric Dor 		Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello GTS 298 21st 5th
2004 Template:Flagicon Luc Alphand Aventures Template:Flagicon Christian Lavieille
Template:Flagicon Philippe Almeras 		Porsche 911 GT3-RS GT 316 16th 5th
2005 Template:Flagicon Luc Alphand Aventures Template:Flagicon Jérôme Policand
Template:Flagicon Christopher Campbell 		Porsche 911 GT3-RS GT2 311 18th 5th
2006 Template:Flagicon Luc Alphand Aventures Template:Flagicon Patrice Goueslard
Template:Flagicon Jérôme Policand 		Chevrolet Corvette C5-R GT1 346 7th 3rd
2007 Template:Flagicon Luc Alphand Aventures Template:Flagicon Patrice Goueslard
Template:Flagicon Jérôme Policand 		Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1 327 12th 7th
2008 Template:Flagicon Luc Alphand Aventures Template:Flagicon Guillaume Moreau
Template:Flagicon Jérôme Policand 		Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1 335 17th 5th
2009 Template:Flagicon Luc Alphand Aventures Template:Flagicon Stéphan Grégoire
Template:Flagicon Patrice Goueslard 		Chevrolet Corvette C6.R GT1 99 DNF DNF

Dakar Rally results

Year Class Vehicle Position Stages won
1998 Car Template:Flagicon Mitsubishi DNF 0
1999 16th 0
2000 Template:Flagicon Schlesser-Renault DNF 0
2001 DNF 0
2002 Template:Flagicon Mitsubishi 7th 0
2003 Template:Flagicon BMW 9th 1
2004 4th 2
2005 Template:Flagicon Mitsubishi 2nd 1
2006 1st 2
2007 2nd 0
2008 Event cancelled – replaced by the 2008 Central Europe Rally
2009 Car Template:Flagicon Mitsubishi DNF 0

References

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External links

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