Romain Dumas

Romain Dumas
Dumas at the Silverstone Round of the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship
Nationality	French
Born	14 December 1977 (age 39) Alès, France
24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 2001 - Teams Freisinger Motorsport, IMSA Performance, Pescarolo Sport, Audi Sport Team Joest, Porsche Motorsport Best finish 1st (2010,2016) Class wins 3 (2010,2013,2016)

Romain Dumas (born 14 December 1977) is a French professional auto racing driver. He has been a Audi and Porsche factory driver in sports car racing, having claimed overall wins at the 2010 and 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 24 Hours of Nürburgring, the 2003 and 2010 24 Hours of Spa, and the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring. Also, he won the 2014 and 2016 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.

Biography

Born in Alès, Dumas started karting in 1992, in 1996 he competed in the French Formula Renault Championship. In 1998, he joined the French Formula 3 Championship.

He tested a Formula 3000 car for Oreca in 1999 and a Renault F1 in 2002. In 2004 he tested a Conquest Racing Champ Car, but he never raced in any of these formulas.

In 2001 and 2002 he competed in Euro Formula 3000.

Since 2001 he has participated in every 24 Hours of Le Mans race and since 2004 he has competed in American Le Mans Series. He is currently a Porsche factory driver for Penske Racing, and also driven in the FIA GT Championship.

In 2007 he won first overall in the 24 Hours Nürburgring, 1st American Le Mans Series (LMP2 Class — Penske Porsche RS Spyder with 8 wins, 4 pole positions), 3rd Le Mans 24 Hours (LMP1 Class — Pescarolo Sport, 5th 1000 km Valencia LMS (LMP1 Class — Pescarolo Sport ), 4 races VLN championship with Manthey Racing (2 wins, 1 pole position), 18th Daytona 24H (12th DP)

He started 2008 with the P2 class and overall win at the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring in the Penske Porsche RS Spyder.

As of 2009 Roger Penske lost sponsorship for the sports car program, and Dumas and Penske regular Timo Bernhard race on loan to the Audi Sport Team Joest for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing 17 overall and 13 in class in the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans

Dumas, together with Timo Bernhard and Mike Rockenfeller won the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans in an Audi R15 TDI plus.^[1] He also won the 2010 24 Hours of Spa in a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR.^[2] Dumas also won with partner Klaus Graf in the CytoSport Porsche RS Spyder at the ALMS event at Mosport.^[3]

Romain Dumas will develop and drive the Porsche 919 Hybrid in the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2014.^[4]

In 2014, Romain Dumas won the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in a Norma M20 "RD Limited" prototype developed specifically for the event.^[5]

In 2015, Dumas raced a Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Car in the RGT class of the WRC Monte Carlo Rally, placing second behind class winner François Delecour.^[6] Later he claimed a class win at the Rallye Deutschland.

Dumas continued as Porsche LMP1 driver in the 2016 FIA WEC. He won the 6 Hours of Silverstone and 24 Hours of Le Mans. Also, he claimed a second win at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with a Norma prototype.

Career results

Complete Euro Formula 3000 results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Points
2001	B & C Competition	VLL 6	PER Ret	MNZ 3	DON 5	ZOL 14	IMO	NÜR	VAL 2		7th	13
2002	John Village Automotive	VLL 1	PER Ret	MOZ 1	SPA 1	DON 10	BRN 2	DIJ 6	JER 4	CAG 5	2nd	42

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2001	Freisinger Motorsport	Gunnar Jeannette Philippe Haezebrouck	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	282	7th	2nd
2002	Freisinger Motorsport	Sascha Maassen Jörg Bergmeister	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT	321	17th	2nd
2003	Team Nasamax McNeil Engineering	Robbie Sterling Werner Lupberger	Reynard 01Q-Cosworth	LMP900	138	DNF	DNF
2004	Freisinger Motorsport	Stéphane Ortelli Ralf Kelleners	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT	321	13th	3rd
2005	IMSA Performance	Raymond Narac Sébastien Dumez	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	GT2	322	15th	4th
2006	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Luca Riccitelli	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	GT2	211	DNF	DNF
2007	Pescarolo Sport	Emmanuel Collard Jean-Christophe Boullion	Pescarolo 01-Judd	LMP1	358	3rd	3rd
2008	Pescarolo Sport	Emmanuel Collard Jean-Christophe Boullion	Pescarolo 01-Judd	LMP1	238	DNF	DNF
2009	Audi Sport Team Joest	Timo Bernhard Alexandre Prémat	Audi R15 TDI	LMP1	333	17th	13th
2010	Audi Sport North America	Timo Bernhard Mike Rockenfeller	Audi R15 TDI plus	LMP1	397	1st	1st
2011	Audi Sport Team Joest	Timo Bernhard Mike Rockenfeller	Audi R18 TDI	LMP1	116	DNF	DNF
2012	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marc Gené Loïc Duval	Audi R18 ultra	LMP1	366	5th	5th
2013	Porsche AG Team Manthey	Marc Lieb Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Pro	315	16th	1st
2014	Porsche Team	Marc Lieb Neel Jani	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1-H	348	11th	4th
2015	Porsche Team	Marc Lieb Neel Jani	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	391	5th	5th
2016	Porsche Team	Marc Lieb Neel Jani	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	384	1st	1st

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2012	Audi Sport Team Joest	LMP1	Audi R18 TDI	Audi TDI 3.7L Turbo V6 (Diesel)	SEB 2									6th	67
			Audi R18 ultra			SPA 1	LMS 4	SIL	SÃO	BHR	FUJ	SHA
2013	Porsche AG Team Manthey	LMGTE Pro	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0L Flat-6	SIL 4	SPA 5	LMS 1	SÃO	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR		10th	72
2014	Porsche Team	LMP1	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4 (Hybrid)	SIL Ret	SPA 4	LMS 5	COA 4	FUJ 4	SHA 3	BHR 2	SÃO 1		3rd	117
2015	Porsche Team	LMP1	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4 (Hybrid)	SIL 2	SPA 2	LMS 5	NÜR 2	COA 12	FUJ 2	SHA 2	BHR 1		3rd	138.5
2016	Porsche Team	LMP1	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4 (Hybrid)	SIL 1	SPA 2	LMS 1	NÜR 4	MEX 4	COA 4	FUJ 5	SHA 4	BHR 6	1st	160

Complete WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WDC	Points
2012	Romain Dumas	Mini John Cooper Works WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	NZL	FIN	GER	GBR	FRA 16	ITA	ESP	NC	0
2013	Romain Dumas	Ford Fiesta RS WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA 10	ESP	GBR	31st	1
2014	Romain Dumas	Porsche 997 GT3 RS 4.0	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA 19	ESP	GBR	NC	0
2015	Romain Dumas	Porsche 997 GT3 RS 4.0	MON 26	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POL	FIN	GER	AUS	FRA Ret	ESP	GBR	NC	0

FIA R-GT Cup results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	Pos.	Points
2015	Romain Dumas	Porsche 997 GT3 RS 4.0	MON 2	BEL Ret	GER 1	FRA Ret	SUI	2nd	43

References

1. "24 Heures du Mans" (PDF). lemans.org. Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2010-06-13.
2. "Total 24 Hour of Spa" (PDF). 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2010-06-13.
3. "Bernhard and Dumas join Muscle Milk Team CytoSport". Planetlemans.com. 2010-08-16. Retrieved 2010-08-21.
4. "Works engagement with 919 hybrid and 911 RSR". Porsche.com. Porsche. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
5. "Pikes Peak : Romain Dumas winner of the race to the clouds!". http://www.romaindumas.com. Romain Dumas. Retrieved 26 August 2014. External link in |website= (help)
6. "WRC 2015 Monte Carlo results". wrc.com. WRC. Retrieved 31 January 2015.

External links

• Personal website
• Fan Club Facebook