Pierre Ragues

Pierre Ragues
Ragues at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Nationality	French
Born	10 January 1984 Caen, France
FIA World Endurance Championship career
Debut season	2012
Current team	Signatech-Nissan
Car no.	26
Previous series
2011 2011 2007 2006, 08–11 2004–2005 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 Participating years 2006, 2008–2016 Teams Paul Belmondo Racing, Saulnier Racing, Signature Team, OAK Racing Best finish 10th (2012)

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.

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

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2006	Paul Belmondo Racing	Claude-Yves Gosselin Karim Ojjeh	Courage C65-Ford	LMP2	84	DNF	DNF
2008	Saulnier Racing	Cheng Congfu Matthieu Lahaye	Pescarolo 01-Judd	LMP2	333	18th	3rd
2009	Signature-Plus	Franck Mailleux Didier André	Courage-Oreca LC70E-Judd	LMP1	344	11th	10th
2010	Signature-Plus	Franck Mailleux Vanina Ickx	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60	LMP1	302	DNF	DNF
2011	OAK Racing	Guillaume Moreau Tiago Monteiro	OAK Pescarolo 01 Evo-Judd	LMP1	80	DNF	DNF
2012	Signatech-Nissan	Nelson Panciatici Roman Rusinov	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	351	10th	4th
2013	Signatech-Alpine	Nelson Panciatici Tristan Gommendy	Alpine A450-Nissan	LMP2	317	14th	8th
2014	Larbre Compétition	Keiko Ihara Ricky Taylor	Morgan LMP2-Judd	LMP2	341	14th	9th
2015	Team SARD-Morand	Oliver Webb Zoël Amberg	Morgan LMP2 Evo-SARD	LMP2	162	DNF	DNF
2016	Larbre Compétition	Jean-Philippe Belloc Yutaka Yamagishi	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	GTE Am	316	37th	8th

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
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	NC	0
2014	Larbre Compétition	LMP2	Morgan LMP2	Judd HK 3.6 L V8	SIL	SPA	LMS 9	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	SÃO	NC	0
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*

* 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.

External links

• Official website
• Pierre Ragues career summary at DriverDB.com