Patrick Pilet

Patrick Pilet 2011 at Le Mans

Patrick Pilet (born October 8, 1981 in Auch ) is a French racing car driver .

Racing career

Patrick Pilet was already a successful kart driver as a teenager . At the age of 13 he won the Trophee Jérôme Bernard and the French Minime Championship in 1994 . The switch to monoposto sport was also successful. In 2001 he won the overall ranking of the junior formula France and after finishing second overall in 2003 he clinched overall victory in the French Formula Renault championship in 2004 ahead of Yann Clairay , Guillaume Moreau , Jérôme D'Ambrosio , Laurent Groppi , Simon Pagenaud and Romain Grosjean . After two seasons in the World Series by Renault , Pilet switched to GT racing in 2007.

Pilet became a team member in the racing team of Raymond Narac , one of the largest Porsche dealers in France, and in 2007 won the Porsche Carrera Cup France . In 2008, Pilet became a Porsche works driver and in the following years he competed in the International GT Open , the American Le Mans Series and the FIA World Endurance Championship . By the end of the 2015 season, the Frenchman had 10 overall and 7 class wins. One of his greatest successes was the overall victory at the Petit Le Mans 2015 , through which he won the GTLM class of the United SportsCar Championship 2015 .

At the 24 Hours of Le Mans , his best placings were 17th in the final classification in 2010 , 2011 and 16th in 2013 .

Patrick Pilet is married to the French TV journalist Guenaelle Longy .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2009	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Raymond Narac	Patrick Long	failure	malfunction
2010	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Raymond Narac	Patrick Long	Rank 17
2011	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Raymond Narac	Nicolas Armindo	Rank 17
2012	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Spencer Pumpelly	Seth Neiman	Rank 27
2013	Porsche AG Team Manthey	Porsche 911 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Timo Bernhard	Rank 16
2014	Porsche AG Team Manthey	Porsche 911 RSR	Jörg Bergmeister	Nick Tandy	Rank 34
2015	Porsche Team Manthey	Porsche 911 RSR	Wolf Henzler	Frédéric Makowiecki	failure	Wagon fire
2016	Porsche Motorsport North America	Porsche 911 RSR	Kévin Estre	Nick Tandy	failure
2017	Porsche GT Team	Porsche 911 RSR	Richard Lietz	Frédéric Makowiecki	Rank 20
2018	Porsche GT Team	Porsche 991 RSR GTE	Earl Bamber	Nick Tandy	Rank 27
2019	Porsche GT Team	Porsche 991 RSR GTE	Earl Bamber	Nick Tandy	Rank 22

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2008	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Johannes van Overbeek	Richard Lietz		Rank 20
2010	Team Falken Tire	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Bryan Sellers	Wolf Henzler		Rank 27
2012	Team Felbermayr Proton	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Marc Lieb	Richard Lietz		Rank 22
2014	Porsche North America	Porsche 911 RSR	Nick Tandy	Richard Lietz		Rank 20
2015	Porsche North America	Porsche 911 RSR	Nick Tandy	Richard Lietz	Earl Bamber	Rank 14
2016	Porsche North America	Porsche 911 RSR	Nick Tandy	Kévin Estre		failure	malfunction
2017	Porsche GT Team	Porsche 911 RSR	Dirk Werner	Frédéric Makowiecki		Rank 13
2018	Porsche GT Team	Porsche 911 RSR	Nick Tandy	Frédéric Makowiecki		Rank 10 and class win
2019	Porsche GT Team	Porsche 911 RSR	Nick Tandy	Frédéric Makowiecki		Rank 10 and class win

Web links

Commons : Patrick Pilet  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Portrait of Patrick Pilt at Porsche Motorsport
• Official website
• Patrick Pilet at the Driver Database
• Patrick Pilet at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ Formula France 2001
2. ^ French Formula Renault Championship 2004