years championships birth_place races nationality points birth_date wins poles article_title name podiums
1987 -- 1990 , 1994 0 le beausset , var , france 49 -lrb- 24 starts -rrb- fra french 0 28 july 1961 0 0 yannick dalmas
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yannick dalmas

yannick dalmas -lrb- born 28 july 1961 in le beausset , var -rrb- is a former racing driver from france .
he participated in 49 formula one grands prix , debuting on 18 october 1987 , but qualified for only 24 of them .
his best result in f1 was a 5th place at the 1987 australian grand prix , but he was not eligible for world championship points at that race .
his f1 career was blighted by his health issues , towards the end of , dalmas was diagnosed with legionellosis which caused him to miss the final two races .
he recovered before the start of but his illness had clearly affected him .
after the 1990 formula one season , dalmas left the series and began racing in le mans prototypes .
there he found much more success , winning the 24 hours of le mans four times -lrb- in 1992 , 1994 , 1995 and 1999 -rrb- , each with different teams .
in 1994 , dalmas made a brief return to formula one with cash-strapped larrousse , but only entered two races .
he crashed in italy , and finished two laps off the lead in portugal .
dalmas was french formula three champion in 1986 .
