François Perrodo

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François Perrodo
The Porsche 997 GT3 RSR of Emmanuel Collard , Sébastien Crubilé and François Perrodo at the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans

François Hubert Marie Perrodo (born February 14, 1977 in Singapore ) is a French entrepreneur and racing driver .

Family and entrepreneurs

François Perrodo is the oldest of three children of Hubert Perrodo , the founder of Perenco and passionate polo player , and Carrie Perrodo , a Singapore-born model. Carrie Perrodo is the principal owner of Perenco, an international natural gas and oil production company . According to the The-World's-Billionaires List , she was in 2016 with a fortune of 8.8 billion US dollars , the tenth richest French.

François Perrodo studied at St Peter's College at the University of Oxford and at the IFP Énergies nouvelles in Rueil-Malmaison . Since 2007 he has been the managing director of Perenco.

Racing career

In addition to his professional activity, Perrodo is active in two sports. He shares a passion for polo with his father, who died in 2006. In 1999 he was the captain of the Oxford University Polo Team . He has competed in GT and sports car races since 2012 . After starting out in the Blancpain Endurance Series , he has been a regular starter in the European Le Mans Series and the FIA World Endurance Championship since 2013 . His greatest success was the overall victory in the LMGT-Am class in the 2016 World Championship .

He competed five times in the 24 Hours of Le Mans . The best place in the final ranking was 26th in 2015 . The 2017 mission was particularly eventful . Only his teammate had Matthieu Vaxivière in Oreca 07 collision with the Ferrari 488 GTE of Pierre Kaffer . The Ferrari was pushed into the first chicane of the Hunaudieres straight, hit the guardrail and fell out. Perrodo's team then received a 10-minute stop-and-go penalty. In the further course of the race, Emmanuel Collard had a serious accident with the car, which meant that this team was also out of action. Collard was unharmed.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2013 FranceFrance Prospeed Competition Porsche 997 GT3-RSR FranceFrance Emmanuel Collard FranceFrance Sébastien Crubilé Rank 36
2014 FranceFrance Prospeed Competition Porsche 997 GT3-RSR FranceFrance Emmanuel Collard FinlandFinland Markus Palttala failure suspension
2015 ItalyItaly AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 FranceFrance Emmanuel Collard PortugalPortugal Rui Águas Rank 26
2016 ItalyItaly AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 FranceFrance Emmanuel Collard PortugalPortugal Rui Águas Rank 27
2017 FranceFrance TDS Racing Oreca 07 FranceFrance Emmanuel Collard FranceFrance Matthieu Vaxivière failure accident
2018 FranceFrance TDS Racing Oreca 07 FranceFrance Loïc Duval FranceFrance Matthieu Vaxivière disqualified
2019 FranceFrance TDS Racing Oreca 07 FranceFrance Loïc Duval FranceFrance Matthieu Vaxivière Rank 8

Web links

Commons : François Perrodo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LMGT-AM class of the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship 2016
personal data
SURNAME Perrodo, François
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Perrodo, François Hubert Marie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French entrepreneur, polo player and racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Singapore