Jean-Marie Balestre (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ maʁi balɛstʁ]; 9 April 1921 – 27 March 2008) was a French motorsport administrator and journalist. From...

treatment from his countryman Jean-Marie Balestre, the president of the FISA. Prost had previously persuaded Balestre to write to Honda insisting that...

and girlfriend Xuxa Meneghel, rivalry with Alain Prost, feud with Jean-Marie Balestre, and complex relationship with the sensationalist racing media. Gabriel...

conductor and violinist Jean-Marie Balestre (1921–2008), president of FISA Jean-Marie Basset (born 1943), French chemist Jean-Marie Beaupuy (born 1943),...

FIA and its then-president, Jean-Marie Balestre, whom he blamed for his disqualification in Japan. Senna claimed that Balestre had forced the race stewards...

this event, with worldwide television coverage, helped persuade Jean-Marie Balestre, the FISA president, that FISA would have to negotiate a settlement...

spaceframe, making it impossible to determine the cause. Within hours, Jean-Marie Balestre, then President of the FISA, banned the powerful Group B rally cars...

level, with a Nations Cup organised in the first year. In 1978, Jean-Marie Balestre begun his presidency of the CSI, and it was renamed to Fédération...

note, because on the Friday morning of race weekend, FISA president Jean-Marie Balestre announced the Spanish Grand Prix would not be counted as a championship...

made by FISA President Jean-Marie Balestre to give the championship to his fellow countryman Prost (the race stewards and Balestre both denied this was...

his car and win the race, but the FIA (led by Prost's countryman Jean-Marie Balestre, whom Senna disliked) disqualified him for missing the chicane, fined...

teammate Alain Prost and struggles with Formula One's top regulator, Jean-Marie Balestre. Senna wins three Formula One titles in four years. The Senna-Prost...

his legal advisor was Max Mosley, while the president of FISA was Jean Marie Balestre. The two organizations' disagreements, which came to be known as...

constructors – Renault, Ferrari and Alfa Romeo – were aligned to) led by Jean-Marie Balestre, argued that the ground effect cars of the time were too fast through...

places in Monaco's government. At one time he was expected to succeed Jean-Marie Balestre as president of the FIA, but Max Mosley got the post instead. On...

Henri Toivonen's crash at the 1986 Tour de Corse, FISA president Jean-Marie Balestre announced that Group B cars were banned for the 1987 season. However...

enforced by FISA for a single central negotiation of television rights. Jean-Marie Balestre, president of FISA, announced that the Monaco Grand Prix would not...

Lauda told the media that the Formula One race would be postponed. Jean-Marie Balestre, the president of FISA, was furious and summoned race organisers...

l'Automobile (FIA) and its head, Paul Metternich, instated Frenchman Jean-Marie Balestre as the head of the Commission Sportive Internationale in 1978, which...

was seen as having been given the Drivers' title by FIA president Jean-Marie Balestre at Senna's expense after Senna was disqualified from that race in...

South African Grand Prix until apartheid ended, with FISA president Jean-Marie Balestre announcing days after the race that the Grand Prix would not return...

abandoning the rule change for the time being. In 1987, FISA president Jean-Marie Balestre almost made a successful attempt to settle the dispute by announcing...

his legal advisor was Max Mosley, while the president of FISA was Jean Marie Balestre. The two organizations' disagreements, which came to be known as...

driver the advantage into the first corner. He went to FISA president Jean Marie Balestre to change the side on which pole was located, but was refused. After...

Automobile Club Motor Sports Association until 1988. FIA president Jean-Marie Balestre, who was searching for an English-speaking press relations man for...

whether this race would take place or not. Governing body president Jean-Marie Balestre announced that the race would take place despite opposition from...

American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929) 2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French businessman (b. 1921) 2009 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist...

and then-FIA president Jean-Marie Balestre. He denied apparent allegations that he had referred to Balestre as a Nazi (Balestre apparently was part of...

had missed the chicane and, according to FIA and FISA president Jean Marie Balestre, had not completed the lap. It is worth noting that many drivers...

The stewards initially agreed but an injunction by FISA president Jean Marie Balestre later that night rejected the decision and the original pole position...