Karim Ojjeh

Karim Ojjeh in a Zytek 07S at the 2008 Silverstone 1000 km race

Karim Ojjeh ( Arabic كريم عجة, DMG Karīm ʿUǧǧa ; * August 27, 1965 in Geneva ) is a Saudi racing car driver and entrepreneur.

family

Karim Ojjeh is the younger brother of Mansour Ojjeh and one of the sons of Akram Ojjeh . His father, born in Damascus in 1918 , was an arms dealer and founded Techniques d'Avant Garde , an international technology group , in 1975 . His stepmother is Nahed Ojjeh , née Tlas. Her father was the former Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas .

Karim Ojjeh is one of the managing directors of Techniques d'Avant Garde.

Racing career

From 2004, Karim Ojjeh was active as a sports car driver alongside his professional activity . He trained as a racing driver at the Jim Russell Racing Drivers School in the early 2000s . In 2002 and 2003 he gained his first experience in Formula Palmer Audi . In 2004 he got into sports car racing and became a regular starter in the Le Mans Series .

In 2005 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Paul Belmondo's team and was together with Adam Sharpe and Claude-Yves Gosselin in the Courage C65 behind Thomas Erdos , Mike Newton and Warren Hughes , who drove an MG-Lola EX264 , Second in the LMP2 class. In 2011 he won the LMP2 class at Le Mans. He also remained successful in the overall ranking of this racing class in 2011 when he won the LMP2 class of the Le Mans Series with partner Tom Kimber-Smith . In 2012 he switched to the Blancpain Endurance Series and was third overall in the Blancpain GT Series in 2017 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2005	Paul Belmondo Racing	Courage C65	Adam Sharpe	Claude-Yves Gosselin	Rank 21
2006	Paul Belmondo Racing	Courage C65	Pierre Ragues	Claude-Yves Gosselin	failure	Engine failure
2007	Barazi epsilon	Zytek 07S / 2	Michael Vergers	Juan Barazi	failure	accident
2008	Trading performance	Zytek 07S / 2	Adam Sharpe	Claude-Yves Gosselin	failure	accident
2009	GAC Racing Team	Zytek 07S / 2	Philipp Peter	Claude-Yves Gosselin	failure	malfunction
2010	Team Bruichladdich	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S / 2	Tim Greaves	Gary Chalandon	Rank 10
2011	Greaves Motorsport	Zytek Z11SN	Olivier Lombard	Tom Kimber-Smith	Rank 8 and class win

Web links

Commons : Karim Ojjeh  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Karim Ojjeh at the Driver Database
• Karim Ojjeh at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Le Mans Series 2011
2. ↑ Blancpain GT Series 2017