Lionel Régal was a French hillclimbing

Hillclimbing

Hillclimbing is a branch of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock to complete an uphill course....

 racer.

After winning the French hillclimbing championship in 2005, 2006 and 2007, he won the French and European

European Hill Climb Championship

The European Hill Climb Championship is an FIA-run motorsport competition held across Europe on mountain roads.Unlike circuit racing, each driver competes alone, starting from a point at the base of a mountain and reaching a finish point near the summit...

 championships in 2008, becoming the first winner of both the national and international hillclimbing competitions. He again won the French championship in 2009.

He used to drive a Reynard

Reynard Motorsport

Reynard Motorsport was at one time the world's largest racing car manufacturer. Initially based at Bicester and latterly at Reynard Park, Brackley, England the company built successful cars in Formula Ford 1600, Formula Ford 2000, Formula Vauxhall Lotus, Formula Three, Formula 3000 and Indy...

/Mugen-Honda Formula Nippon

Formula Nippon

Formula Nippon is a type of formula racing and the top level of single-seater racing in Japan.Formula Nippon evolved from the Japanese Formula 2000 series begun in 1973 by way of the Japanese Formula Two and Japanese Formula 3000 championships...

.

He was born in Lentilly, France

Lentilly

Lentilly is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France....

 on 21 July 1975 and died crashing into a tree in Saint-Ursanne, Switzerland on 15 August 2010.

External links

• presentation of his crew, calendar and last successes (French)