Jesús Pareja

Jesús Ángel Pareja Mayo (born 6 March 1955) is a retired Spanish racing driver. 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

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1985	Ducados Obermaier Racing	Jürgen Lässig Hervé Regout	Porsche 956	Gr. C1	357	8th	8th
1986	Brun Motorsport	Joël Gouhier Oscar Larrauri	Porsche 962C	Cr. C1	360	2nd	2nd
1987	Brun Motorsport	Oscar Larrauri Uwe Schäfer	Porsche 962C	Cr. C1	40	DNF	DNF
1988	Repsol Brun Motorsport	Uwe Schäfer Massimo Sigala	Porsche 962C	C1	372	7th	7th
1989	Brun Motorsport	Walter Brun Oscar Larrauri	Porsche 962C	C1	242	DNF	DNF
1990	Repsol Brun Motorsport	Walter Brun Oscar Larrauri	Porsche 962C	C1	353	DNF	DNF
1991	Brun Motorsport	Walter Brun Oscar Larrauri	Porsche 962C	C2	338	10th	10th
1992	Euro Racing	Cor Euser Charles Zwolsman	Lola T92/10-Judd	C1	50	DNF	DNF
1993	Jack Leconte Larbre Compétition	Pierre de Thoisy Jack Leconte	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	C4	301	16th	2nd
1994	Larbre Compétition	Dominique Dupuy Carlos Palau	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	LMGT2	307	8th	1st
1995	Société Larbre Compétition	Érik Comas Jean-Pierre Jarier	Porsche 911 GT2 Evo	LMGT1	64	DNF	DNF
1996	Roock Racing Team	Dominic Chappell Jean-Pierre Jarier	Porsche 911 GT2 Evo	LMGT1	93	DNF	DNF
1997	Pacific Racing Ltd.	Eliseo Salazar Harri Toivonen	BRM P301-Nissan	LMP	6	DNF	DNF