| Gabriel Aubry | |
| Nationality: |  France |
| Birth Date: | 3 April 1998 |
| Birth Place: | Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France |
| Racing Licence: | FIA Gold |
| Starts: | 29 (29 entries) |
| Wins: | 3 |
| Poles: | 0 |
| Fastest Laps: | 0 |
| Best Finish: | 2nd |
| Year: | 2018–19 (LMP2) |
| Prev Series: | IMSA - DPi IMSA - LMP2 GP3 Series Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC French F4 Championship |
| Prev Series Years: | 2020 2019–21 2018 2016–17 2016 2015 |
| Last Series: | FIA World Endurance Championship |
| Podiums: | 11 |
Gabriel Aubry (born 3 April 1998) is a French racing driver who last competed in the World Endurance Championship for Vector Sport. He is a stalwart of the LMP2 category, having taken a runner-up spot for Jackie Chan DC Racing in the 2018–19 WEC season before competing in the IMSA SportsCar Championship and the European Le Mans Series.
Born in Saint Germain-en-Laye, Aubry began karting in 2008 at the age of eleven, partaking in events across Europe. One of his karting achievements was the third place in the KFJ class of the Andrea Margutti Trophy, when he finished ahead of such drivers as Jehan Daruvala and Lando Norris.[1]
In 2015, Aubry graduated to single-seaters. He competed in the French F4 Championship, where he won Hungaroring race and had another nine podium finishes. As a result, he finished in the top-three in the overall standings and as runner-up in the International F4 Championship standings.
In 2016, Aubry switched to Formula Renault 2.0 with Tech 1 Racing, joining his French F4 rival Sacha Fenestraz.[2] He had six point-scoring finishes and finished eleventh in the drivers' standings.[3] He also had a partial 2016 Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup campaign with the same team.[4]
Aubry continued with Tech 1 in 2017.[5] He won three races—two of them on Hungaroring and one at Spa—and had finished another five races on the podium position.[6] [7] He ended the season fifth.[8] He again competed in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, ending the season fifth as well.[9]
Aubry joined Arden International to compete in the GP3 Series in 2018.[10] It proved to be a difficult rookie season, as the French driver scored just two points finishes on his way to 18th in the standings.
After making his sportscar debut with two races in the LMP3 class of the 2017–18 Asian Le Mans Series, which included a win at Sepang, Aubry progressed to LMP2 machinery for the WEC's "Super Season", driving alongside Ho-Pin Tung and Stephane Richelmi at Jackie Chan DC Racing.[11] [12] Following a second place at the season-opening Spa round, Aubry made his 24 Hours of Le Mans debut, finishing sixth in class.[13] Thereafter, he and his teammates took three podiums, which included wins at Silverstone and Shanghai, with Aubry being entrusted with the final stint at the latter event.[14] [15] Though the team celebrated two further podium appearances towards the end of the campaign, culminating in a runner-up finihsh at Le Mans, Aubry and his stablemates ended up second in the standings, only behind the Le Mans-winning Signatech Alpine crew.[16] During 2019, the Frenchman partook in the endurance rounds of the IMSA SportsCar Championship with PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, winning the 6 Hours of The Glen and helping Matt McMurry to the title.[17] [18]
For the 2019–20 WEC season, Aubry returned to Jackie Chan DC, with him and Tung being joined by Will Stevens. Until the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic, Aubry and the team were firmly in the title race, having finished on the podium on five occasions.[19] Aubry missed the postponed Spa event due to a positive COVID-19-test, which he had contracted as a result of his dealings in the ELMS driving for Algarve Pro Racing, leaving him unable to be part of the championship picture.[20] A piece of redemption arrived in the final race at Bahrain, where Aubry charged past António Félix da Costa to take the team's final win in the category.[21]
The 2021 campaign saw Aubry join gentleman driver John Farano at Starworks-run Tower Motorsport for the entire IMSA season.[22] In a season where only three teams competed in all rounds, a pair of retirements became the duo's undoing, as they finished third in the standings despite winning the season-ending Petit Le Mans event.[23]
Going into 2022, Aubry transitioned to GT racing, joining Spirit of Race as their pro-ranked driver in the LMGTE Am class of the WEC.[24] The team struggled to achieve results, retiring from two of the opening three races before taking a season-best finish of fifth at Monza, one that left SoR 13th and last of all outfits in the teams' standings. The year also yielded no success in LMP2, as Aubry and bronze-rated Rob Hodes finished seventh and last in the Pro-Am subclass of the ELMS with Team Virage.[25]
Vector Sport became Aubry's new home in 2023, as he moved back to LMP2 on a full-time basis in the WEC.[26] Despite driving alongside two silvers in the form of Matthias Kaiser and Ryan Cullen, the French driver was able to showcase his pace, notably by qualifying second at Portimão, merely 0.001 seconds off polesitter Mirko Bortolotti.[27] He helped the team to finish seventh at Le Mans but got unlucky with a number of technical issues throughout the season, leaving him and Vector tenth overall.
Initially announced as one of Vector Sport's drivers for the 2024 European Le Mans Series campaign, Aubry was released via a phone call one week before pre-season testing to make way for Felipe Drugovich, in a decision the Frenchman described as having shocked him.[28]
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Pos | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | nowrap | Tech 1 Racing | ALC 1 | ALC 2 | ALC 3 | MON 1 | MNZ 1 | MNZ 2 | MNZ 1 | RBR 1 | RBR 2 | LEC 1 | LEC 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | EST 1 | EST 2 | 12th | 35 | |||||||||
| 2017 | nowrap | Tech 1 Racing | MNZ 1 | MNZ 2 | SIL 1 | SIL 2 | PAU 1 | PAU 2 | MON 1 | MON 2 | HUN 1 | HUN 2 | HUN 3 | NÜR 1 | NÜR 2 | RBR 1 | RBR 2 | LEC 1 | LEC 2 | SPA 1 | SPA 2 | SPA 3 | CAT 1 | CAT 2 | CAT 3 | 5th | 232 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Class | Car | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Rank | Points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nowrap | 2018–19 | nowrap | Jackie Chan DC Racing | LMP2 | nowrap | Oreca 07 | nowrap | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | SPA | LMS | SIL | FUJ | SHA | SEB | SPA | LMS | 2nd | 166 |
| nowrap | 2019–20 | nowrap | Jackie Chan DC Racing | LMP2 | nowrap | Oreca 07 | nowrap | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | SIL | FUJ | SHA | BHR | COA | SPA | LMS | BHR | 7th | 128 |
| 2021 | nowrap | Richard Mille Racing Team | LMP2 | nowrap | Oreca 07 | nowrap | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | SPA | ALG | MNZ | LMS | BHR | BHR | 23rd | 8 | |||
| 2022 | nowrap | Spirit of Race | nowrap | LMGTE Am | nowrap | Ferrari 488 GTE Evo | nowrap | Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 | SEB | SPA | LMS | MNZ | FUJ | BHR | 22nd | 16 | ||
| 2023 | nowrap | Vector Sport | LMP2 | nowrap | Oreca 07 | nowrap | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | SEB | ALG | SPA | LMS | MNZ | FUJ | BHR | 16th | 29 |
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 |  Jackie Chan DC Racing | Ho-Pin Tung Stéphane Richelmi | Oreca 07-Gibson | LMP2 | 356 | 10th | 6th | |
| 2019 | Jackie Chan DC Racing | Ho-Pin Tung Stéphane Richelmi | Oreca 07-Gibson | LMP2 | 367 | 7th | 2nd | |
| 2020 | Jackie Chan DC Racing | Ho-Pin Tung Will Stevens | Oreca 07-Gibson | LMP2 | 141 | DSQ | DSQ | |
| 2021 |  PR1 Motorsports | Patrick Kelly Simon Trummer | Oreca 07-Gibson | LMP2 Pro-Am | 261 | DNF | DNF | |
| 2022 | Spirit of Race | Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues | Ferrari 488 GTE Evo | GTE Am | 127 | DNF | DNF | |
| 2023 | Vector Sport |  Ryan Cullen Matthias Kaiser | Oreca 07-Gibson | LMP2 | 325 | 15th | 7th |
| Year | Entrant | Class | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Rank | Points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | nowrap | IDEC Sport | LMP2 | nowrap | Oreca 07 | nowrap | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | LEC | MNZ | RBR | SIL | SPA | ALG | 16th | 14 | |
| 2020 | nowrap | Algarve Pro Racing | LMP2 | nowrap | Oreca 07 | nowrap | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | LEC | SPA | LEC | MNZ | ALG | 12th | 19.5 | ||
| 2021 | nowrap | Panis Racing | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | CAT | RBR | 20th | 18.5 | |||||||
| nowrap | IDEC Sport | LEC | MNZ | SPA | ALG | |||||||||||
| 2022 | Team Virage | LMP2 | Oreca 07 | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | LEC | IMO | MNZ | CAT | SPA | ALG | 26th | 0 | ||||
| Pro-Am Cup | 7th | 34 | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | nowrap | Nielsen Racing | LMP2 | nowrap | Oreca 07 | nowrap | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | CAT | LEC | IMO | SPA | MUG | ALG | 25th | 0 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
| Year | Entrant | Class | Make | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Rank | Points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | nowrap | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | LMP2 | nowrap | Oreca 07 | nowrap | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | DAY | SEB | MDO | WGL | MOS | ELK | LGA | PET | 4th | 130 | ||
| 2020 | nowrap | PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports | LMP2 | nowrap | Oreca 07 | nowrap | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | DAY | SEB | ELK | ATL | NC† | 0† | ||||||
| nowrap | JDC-Miller MotorSports | DPi | nowrap | Cadillac DPi-V.R | nowrap | Cadillac 5.5 L V8 | DAY | MDO | PET | LGA | SEB | 22nd | 46 | ||||||
| 2021 | nowrap | Tower Motorsport by Starworks | LMP2 | nowrap | Oreca 07 | nowrap | Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 | DAY | SEB | WGL | WGL | ELK | LGA | PET | 3rd | 2012 |