Pierre Ragues

Pierre Ragues 2012 at Le Mans

Pierre Ragues in the Saulnier Racing Pescarolo 01 at the Silverstone 1000 km race in 2008

Pierre Ragues (born January 10, 1984 in Caen ) is a French racing driver .

Career

Pierre Ragues began his career in karting and has remained professionally connected to this form of motorsport to this day. He contested his first kart race in 2000 in the South Garda Winter Cup and in 2009 still competed in the CIK FIA World Cup .

Ragues has also been driving car races since 2003. He was involved in the French Formula Renault Championship for three years , where he finished second in the overall standings in 2003. In 2006 he switched from monoposti to sports cars . He made his debut in the Le Mans Series and the 24 Hours of Le Mans . For the team of former Formula 1 driver Paul Belmondo , he drove a Courage C65 on his Le Mans debut , but retired early. In 2007 Ragues had a short detour in formula racing when he started for the Euronova Racing team in the International Formula Masters . There he reached a podium and finished the season on the 14th championship place.

For the 2008 season Ragues returned to sports car racing in the Le Mans Series, where he now drove a Pescarolo 01 from Saulnier Racing . With his teammate Mathieu Lahaye , he was able to celebrate a podium finish in the LMP2 class and ended the season in fifth place in the drivers' standings in his class. In Le Mans he was also able to book his first finish. In 2009 the change to Signature-Plus followed and thus also to the "large" prototype class LMP1. He was never able to fight for a podium place against stronger competition, but he and his teammate Franck Mailleux regularly drove the Courage-ORECA LC70 into the points, so that at the end of the season it was tenth in the championship. In the same year he also achieved his best position so far in the endurance race on the Sarthe, which he was able to finish in eleventh place overall. In 2010 Ragues switched to a Lola-Aston Martin LMP1 .

For the 2011 season he switched to OAK Racing and drove a Pescarolo 01 there . The first place of the year he achieved with fifth place overall in the 6-hour race at Silverstone . Ragues has been active in the FIA World Endurance Championship since 2012 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2006	Paul Belmondo Racing	Courage C65	Claude-Yves Gosselin	Karim Ojjeh	failure	Engine failure
2008	Saulnier Racing	Pescarolo 01	Cheng Cong Fu	Mathieu Lahaye	Rank 18
2009	Signature plus	Courage-Oreca LC70E	Didier André	Franck Mailleux	Rank 11
2010	Signature plus	Lola-Aston Martin LMP1	Vanina Ickx	Franck Mailleux	failure	accident
2011	OAK Racing	Pescarolo 01	Guillaume Moreau	Tiago Monteiro	failure	malfunction
2012	Signatech Nissan	Oreca 03	Nelson Panciatici	Roman Alexandrovich Russinov	Rank 10
2013	Signatech Alpine	Alpine A450	Nelson Panciatici	Tristan Gommendy	Rank 15
2014	Larbre Compétition	Morgan LMP2	Ricky Taylor	Keiko Ihara	Rank 14
2015	Team SARD-Morand	Morgan LMP2 Evo	Oliver Webb	Zoël Amberg	failure	Engine failure
2016	Larbre Compétition	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Yutaka Yamagishi	Jean-Philippe Belloc	Rank 37
2017	Signatech Alpine Matmut	Alpine A470	Nelson Panciatici	André Negrao	Rank 4
2019	Duqueine engineering	Oreca 07	Nicolas Jamin	Romain Dumas	Rank 12

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2011	OAK Racing	Pescarolo 01	Matthieu Lahaye	Guillaume Moreau	failure	mechanics

Web links

Commons : Pierre Ragues  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• official homepage
• Career statistics on driverdb.com