Luís Pérez Companc

Luís Pérez Companc

Nation:	Argentina
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally Argentina 2001
Last rally:	Rally Finland 2008
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Rallies Victories Podiums WP 41 - - -
Points:	-
Status: October 2015

Luís Pérez Companc (born January 2, 1972 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine entrepreneur, racing car driver and racing team owner.

Career

Luís Pérez Companc comes from a wealthy Argentine family. He is next to his brother Pablo Pérez Companc of eight children of a Gregorio Perez Companc , the according to the Forbes - list of billionaires richest Argentine. His father collected historic racing vehicles. Among others who belonged Ferrari 330TRI , the winning car of Phil Hill and Olivier Gendebien from the 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans to this collection

Rallying

Pérez Companc started international rallying and taking part in the Argentina Rally in 2001 after having participated in national events . Financed with family capital, he only drove a few races in the following years. In 2005 he got a works contract with the Ford World Rally Team , contested the world championship races in New Zealand and Argentina and won the overall ranking of the Argentinian rally championship.

In 2006 , 2007 and 2008 he competed in the World Rally Championship in the Ford Focus RS WRC for privately run Ford WRC teams. The best place was the fifth place at the 2007 Rally Japan .

Sports car racing

During his final year as a rally driver, Pérez Companc began sports car racing. Once again he was able to use the enormous family fortune to finance the races. He did not own a racing team in the classic sense. He acquired the racing cars and financed spare parts and races, most of which were taken over by the AF Corse racing team .

In 2008 he registered a Ferrari F430 GT in the FIA GT Championship . His compatriot Matías Russo was his cockpit partner . The team achieved the best result of the year in the last race of the season, the 2-hour race in San Luis , with victory in the GT2 class and sixth place. They finished eleventh in the season standings in the GT2 class.

In 2009 the duo climbed to the sixth final in the GT2 class. In the same year he made his debut at the 12 Hours of Sebring and the 24 Hours of Le Mans . In Sebring he finished eighth overall in 2009 and seventh in 2012 . He has competed five times at Le Mans so far; best placement was the ninth final place in 2012 .

With the start of the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2012 , Luís Pérez Companc moved his activities to this racing series, in which he was regularly registered until the end of the 2014 season .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2009	AF Corse	Ferrari F430 GTC	Gianmaria Bruni	Matias Russo	Rank 26
2011	PeCom Racing	Lola B11 / 40	Pierre Kaffer	Matias Russo	failure	malfunction
2012	PeCom Racing	Oreca 03	Pierre Kaffer	Soheil Ayari	Rank 9
2013	PeCom Racing	Oreca 03	Pierre Kaffer	Nicolas Minassian	Rank 11
2014	AF Corse	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Marco Cioci	Mirko Venturi	Rank 22
2019	Clearwater Racing	Ferrari 488 GTE	Matt Griffin	Matteo Cressoni	Rank 37

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2009	Advanced Engineering Pecom Racing Team	Ferrari F430 GTC	Gianmaria Bruni	Matias Russo	Rank 8
2012	PeCom Racing	Oreca 03	Pierre Kaffer	Soheil Ayari	Rank 7

Web links

Commons : Luís Pérez Companc  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Results at Racing Sports Cars
• Luís Pérez Companc at the Driver Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ rally results
2. ↑ 2008 San Luis 2 Hour Race
3. ↑ FIA GT Championship GT2 class 2008
4. ↑ FIA GT Championship GT2 class 2009