Pierre Ragues Explained

Pierre Ragues
Nationality: French
Birth Date:10 January 1984
Birth Place:Caen, France
Racing Licence: FIA Silver
First Year:2012
Current Team:Signatech-Nissan
Car Number:26
Prev Series: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
Prev Series Years:2011
2011
2007
2006, 0811
20042005
2004–05
2003
2003
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Years:, –
Best Finish:4th overall / 3rd in class

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

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 24 Hours of Le Mans results

YearTeamCo-DriversCarClassLaps
2006 Paul Belmondo Racing Claude-Yves Gosselin
Karim Ojjeh
Courage C65-FordLMP284DNFDNF
2008 Saulnier Racing Cheng Congfu
Matthieu Lahaye
Pescarolo 01-JuddLMP233318th3rd
2009 Signature-Plus Franck Mailleux
Didier André
Courage-Oreca LC70E-JuddLMP134411th10th
2010 Signature-Plus Franck Mailleux
Vanina Ickx
Lola-Aston Martin B09/60LMP1302DNFDNF
2011 OAK Racing Guillaume Moreau
Tiago Monteiro
OAK Pescarolo 01 Evo-JuddLMP180DNFDNF
2012 Signatech-Nissan Nelson Panciatici
Roman Rusinov
Oreca 03-NissanLMP235110th4th
2013 Signatech-Alpine Nelson Panciatici
Tristan Gommendy
Alpine A450-NissanLMP231714th8th
2014 Larbre Compétition Keiko Ihara
Ricky Taylor
Morgan LMP2-JuddLMP234114th9th
2015 Team SARD-Morand Oliver Webb
Zoël Amberg
Morgan LMP2 Evo-SARDLMP2162DNFDNF
2016 Larbre Compétition Jean-Philippe Belloc
Yutaka Yamagishi
Chevrolet Corvette C7.RGTE
Am
31637th8th
2017 Signatech Alpine Matmut Nelson Panciatici
André Negrão
Alpine A470-GibsonLMP23624th3rd
2019 Duqueine Engineering Nico Jamin
Romain Dumas
Oreca 07-GibsonLMP236312th7th
2020 Signatech Alpine Elf André Negrão
Thomas Laurent
Alpine A470-GibsonLMP23678th4th

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

YearEntrantClassChassisEngine12345678RankPoints
2012Signatech-NissanLMP2Oreca 03Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8SEBSPA
LMS
SIL
SÃO
BHR
FUJ
SHA
6th†60†
2013Signatech-AlpineLMP2Alpine A450Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8SILSPALMS
SÃOCOAFUJSHABHRNC0
2014Larbre CompétitionLMP2Morgan LMP2Judd HK 3.6 L V8SILSPALMS
COAFUJSHABHRSÃONC0
2015Team SARD MorandLMP2Morgan LMP2 EvoSARD (Judd) 3.6 L V8SILSPA
LMSNÜRCOAFUJSHABHR5th*18*
2019–20Signatech Alpine ElfLMP2Alpine A470Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8SIL
FUJ
SHA
BHR
COA
SPA
LMS
BHR
8th109
* Season still in progress.
There was no drivers championship that year, the result indicates rank in the LMP2 Trophy.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pierre Ragues career statistics. driverdb.com. Driver Database. 19 June 2012.