Pierre Dieudonné

Pierre Dieudonné (born 24 March 1947 in Brussels) is a Belgian auto racing driver and motoring journalist.

He 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 he 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 team mates 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 JQMF Engineering with Chris Hodgetts in a Ford Sierra RS500. 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 7th 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.

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	MNZ DSQ	JAR ovr:4 cls:1	DIJ ovr:4 cls:2	NUR Ret	SPA Ret							5th	193
		Ford Sierra RS500						BNO ovr:2 cls:2	SIL ovr:13 cls:4	BAT DSQ	CLD ovr:1 cls:1	WEL ovr:3 cls:2	FJI ovr:5 cls: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	BAT Ret	WEL Ret	PUK 7	FJI	NC	0

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
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	GTP	147	DNF	DNF
1991	Mazdaspeed Co. Ltd. Oreca	Takashi Yorino Yojiro Terada	Mazda 787B	C2	346	8th	8th

Complete Spa 24 Hour results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
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	Pos.	Class Pos.
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