Claude Galopin is a French automotive engineer who currently works for Pescarolo Sport

Pescarolo Sport

Pescarolo Sport is a motorsport team based in Le Mans, France and founded in 2000 by French racing driver Henri Pescarolo. They race in the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In October 2007, Henri Pescarolo purchased Jacques Nicolet's Saulnier Racing and created Pescarolo Automobiles,...

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Career

In , Galopin was recruited by the Ligier Formula One

Formula One

Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

 team as a race engineer, a position he remained in for four years. He then stepped down to International Formula 3000 to work for the GBDA Motorsport team, whose driver Olivier Grouillard

Olivier Grouillard

Olivier Grouillard is a racing driver from France. He raced in Formula One from to , participating in 62 Grands Prix, scoring 1 championship point....

 finished second in the 1988 Drivers' Championship. GBDA folded at the end of the season, and Galopin was recruited by the Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives

Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives

Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives was a small French racecar constructor that competed in various racing categories over a period of thirty years, including Formula One from to ....

 F1 team for , where he took the position on chief engineer.

Galopin returned to Ligier for as Philippe Alliot

Philippe Alliot

Philippe Alliot is a former racing driver who participated in Formula One from to and from to . He raced for RAM, Ligier, Larrousse and McLaren....

's race engineer. He designed the Ligier JS35 chassis with Richard Divila

Richard Divila

.Richard Divila is a Brazilian motorsports designer. He has worked in Formula One, Formula Two, Formula Three, Formula 3000 and Sports Car Racing....

, but the car's performance was disappointing and he was summarily fired by team owner Guy Ligier

Guy Ligier

Guy Ligier is a French former rugby player and racing driver.He first made his name as a rugby player in the late 1940s when he was working as a butcher's assistant in his home town of Vichy. An orphan, he was determined to build up a successful business and saved all his money in order to buy a...

. For 1992 he returned to Formula 3000 with the DAMS team—which, like GBDA, was part owned by former driver René Arnoux

René Arnoux

René Alexandre Arnoux is a retired French racing driver who is a veteran of 12 Formula One seasons...

—where he engineered Olivier Panis

Olivier Panis

Olivier Panis is a French racing driver. Panis is best known in F1 not only as a test driver for the McLaren team but for his win at the eventful Monaco Grand Prix in 1996 for the Ligier team after starting 14th...

 and Jean-Christophe Boullion

Jean-Christophe Boullion

Jean-Christophe "Jules" Boullion is a former Formula One driver who raced for the Sauber team....

 to the 1993 and 1994 championships. Galopin worked for DAMS until 2002, during which time he also designed the team's unraced GD-01

DAMS GD-01

The DAMS GD-01 was an unraced Formula One car used by the French motorsport team, Driot-Arnoux Motor Sport . The GD-01 was designed and built by a collaboration of DAMS and Reynard engineers from 1994 to 1995, and was intended to establish the team—which had achieved considerable success in...

chassis intended for F1, before moving to Pescarolo.