Pierre Ragues

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Pierre Ragues
Pierre Ragues - Le Mans 2012.JPG
Nationality Flag of France.svg French
Born (1984-01-10) 10 January 1984 (age 41)
Caen, France
FIA World Endurance Championship career
Debut season 2012
Current team Signatech-Nissan
Racing licence FIA Silver Driver.png FIA Silver
Car number26
Previous series
2011
2011
2007
2006, 0811
20042005
2004–05
2003
2003
Intercontinental Le Mans Cup
American Le Mans Series
International Formula Master
Le Mans Series
Eurocup Formula Renault
French Formula Renault
FIA GT Championship
Formula Renault Campus
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years 2006, 20082020
Teams Paul Belmondo Racing, Saulnier Racing, Signature Team, OAK Racing
Best finish4th overall / 3rd in class (2017)
Ragues driving for Saulnier Racing at the 2008 1000km of Silverstone. Saulnier Pescarolo 35.jpg
Ragues driving for Saulnier Racing at the 2008 1000km of Silverstone.

Pierre Ragues (born 10 January 1984 in Caen) is a French racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

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Career

Karting

Debuting in karting in 1994, Ragues was second in the Monaco Kart Cup in Formula A in 2001, and third in the French Elite Championship. Since starting to race cars, Ragues has continued to compete in karts. [1]

Single-seaters

Ragues started racing cars in 2003 when he took part in Formula Renault Campus in France, finishing runner-up to dominant champion Laurent Groppi and scoring one race win. He also took part in the 2003 Spa 24 Hours in a Paul Belmondo Racing-run Chrysler Viper GTS-R. For the following years he raced in French Formula Renault, finishing 12th and 15th overall in the two seasons.

After racing sportscars in 2006, Ragues took part in International Formula Master in 2007, finishing 14th overall with one podium finish.

Sportscars

In 2006 Ragues started in sports car racing, contesting the LMP2 class of the Le Mans Series and 24 Hours of Le Mans for Paul Belmondo Racing. After his brief return to single-seaters, in 2008 he raced for Saulnier Racing and finished fifth in the Le Mans Series LMP2 drivers' standings and third in class at Le Mans.

2009 saw him start his relationship with the Signature team. They finished 11th overall and tenth in LMP1 at the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans and seventh in the Le Mans Series. Signature switched to a Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 for 2010, and the team finished second in the LMS teams' championship with their drivers in fourth place.

In 2011 Ragues switched back to the Saulnier team, now operating as OAK Racing, before returning to Signature in 2012, now racing as Signatech-Nissan. He finished tenth overall and fourth in LMP2 at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Racing record

Complete Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

YearEntrant12345678910111213141516DCPoints
2005 Epsilon Sport ZOL
1

ZOL
2

VAL
1

Ret
VAL
2

22
LMS
1

Ret
LMS
2

9
BIL
1

BIL
2

OSC
1

11
OSC
2

24
DON
1

DON
2

EST
1

33
EST
2

17
MNZ
1

MNZ
2

31st2

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

YearTeamCo-DriversCarClassLapsPos.Class
Pos.
2006 Flag of France.svg Paul Belmondo Racing Flag of France.svg Claude-Yves Gosselin
Flag of Saudi Arabia.svg Karim Ojjeh
Courage C65-Ford LMP284DNFDNF
2008 Flag of France.svg Saulnier Racing Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Cheng Congfu
Flag of France.svg Matthieu Lahaye
Pescarolo 01-Judd LMP233318th3rd
2009 Flag of France.svg Signature-Plus Flag of France.svg Franck Mailleux
Flag of France.svg Didier André
Courage-Oreca LC70E-Judd LMP134411th10th
2010 Flag of France.svg Signature-Plus Flag of France.svg Franck Mailleux
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Vanina Ickx
Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 LMP1302DNFDNF
2011 Flag of France.svg OAK Racing Flag of France.svg Guillaume Moreau
Flag of Portugal.svg Tiago Monteiro
OAK Pescarolo 01 Evo-Judd LMP180DNFDNF
2012 Flag of France.svg Signatech-Nissan Flag of France.svg Nelson Panciatici
Flag of Russia.svg Roman Rusinov
Oreca 03-Nissan LMP235110th4th
2013 Flag of France.svg Signatech-Alpine Flag of France.svg Nelson Panciatici
Flag of France.svg Tristan Gommendy
Alpine A450-Nissan LMP231714th8th
2014 Flag of France.svg Larbre Compétition Flag of Japan.svg Keiko Ihara
Flag of the United States.svg Ricky Taylor
Morgan LMP2-Judd LMP234114th9th
2015 Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Team SARD-Morand Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Oliver Webb
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Zoël Amberg
Morgan LMP2 Evo-SARD LMP2162DNFDNF
2016 Flag of France.svg Larbre Compétition Flag of France.svg Jean-Philippe Belloc
Flag of Japan.svg Yutaka Yamagishi
Chevrolet Corvette C7.R GTE
Am
31637th8th
2017 Flag of France.svg Signatech Alpine Matmut Flag of France.svg Nelson Panciatici
Flag of Brazil.svg André Negrão
Alpine A470-Gibson LMP23624th3rd
2019 Flag of France.svg Duqueine Engineering Flag of France.svg Nico Jamin
Flag of France.svg Romain Dumas
Oreca 07-Gibson LMP236312th7th
2020 Flag of France.svg Signatech Alpine Elf Flag of Brazil.svg André Negrão
Flag of France.svg Thomas Laurent
Alpine A470-Gibson LMP23678th4th

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

YearEntrantClassChassisEngine12345678RankPoints
2012 Signatech-Nissan LMP2 Oreca 03 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 SEB SPA
12
LMS
4
SIL
3
SÃO
7
BHR
4
FUJ
EX
SHA
7
6th†60†
2013 Signatech-Alpine LMP2 Alpine A450 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 SIL SPA LMS
8
SÃO COA FUJ SHA BHR NC0
2014 Larbre Compétition LMP2 Morgan LMP2 Judd HK 3.6 L V8 SIL SPA LMS
9
COA FUJ SHA BHR SÃO NC0
2015 Team SARD Morand LMP2 Morgan LMP2 Evo SARD (Judd) 3.6 L V8 SIL SPA
2
LMS NÜR COA FUJ SHA BHR 5th*18*
2019–20 Signatech Alpine Elf LMP2 Alpine A470 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 SIL
2
FUJ
6
SHA
4
BHR
4
COA
6
SPA
Ret
LMS
3
BHR
5
8th109

* Season still in progress.
There was no drivers championship that year, the result indicates rank in the LMP2 Trophy.

References

  1. "Pierre Ragues career statistics". driverdb.com. Driver Database. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
Sporting positions
Preceded by Le Mans Series Champion
2013 with:
Nelson Panciatici
Succeeded by