Pierre Thiriet

Pierre Thiriet in the Renault Megane Trophy 2010 in Brno

Pierre Thiriet in the Alpine A470 at the 6-hour race at Silverstone 2018

Pierre Thiriet (born April 20, 1989 in Épinal ) is a French racing driver . He will start in the European Le Mans Series in 2012 .

Career

Thiriet began his motorsport career in touring car racing in 2009 in the Mégane Trophy Eurocup . Starting for TDS Racing , he achieved two podium finishes and was fifth in the drivers' championship. In 2010 he stayed with TDS Racing in the Mégane Trophy Eurocup. Together with his team mate Nicky Catsburg , Thiriet drove for the championship title. He won two races and achieved nine podium finishes. He finally lost to Catsburg with 134 to 161 points and ended the season in second place.

In 2011 Thiriet switched to endurance racing. He started for TDS Racing in the LMP2 class of the Le Mans Series . Together with his teammates Mathias Beche and Jody Firth , he won the LMP2 classification twice. Thiriet finished the season together with his teammates in fourth place in the LMP2 classification. He also made his debut at the Le Mans 24-hour race that year . For Luxury Racing he started in the LMGTE Pro category. His team dropped out. In 2012 , Thiriet stayed with his team, which this season will compete as Thiriet by TDS Racing . The racing series has since been renamed the European Le Mans Series . He won the first race at Le Castellet together with his team-mate Beche. After this race, they both led the LMP2 classification, which is the highest category this season. He will also compete in the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans for Thiriet by TDS Racing.

statistics

Career stations

• 2009: Mégane Trophy Eurocup (5th place)
• 2010: Mégane Trophy Eurocup (2nd place)
• 2011 : Le Mans Series , LMP2 (4th place)
• 2012 : ELMS, LMP2

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2011	Luxury racing	Ferrari 458 Italia GTC	Anthony Beltoise	François Jakubowski	failure
2012	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Oreca 03	Mathias Beche	Christophe Tinseau	Rank 8
2013	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Oreca 03	Ludovic Badey	Maxime Martin	failure	accident
2014	TDS Racing	Ligier JS P2	Ludovic Badey	Tristan Gommendy	Rank 6
2015	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Oreca 05	Ludovic Badey	Tristan Gommendy	failure	accident
2016	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Oreca 05	Mathias Beche	Ryō Hirakawa	failure
2017	G-Drive Racing	Oreca 07	Roman Rusinov	Alex Lynn	failure	accident
2018	Signatech Alpine Matmut	Alpine A470	André Negrao	Nicolas Lapierre	5th place and class win
2019	Signatech Alpine Matmut	Alpine A470	André Negrao	Nicolas Lapierre	Rank 6 and class win

Web links

Commons : Pierre Thiriet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Career statistics from Pierre Thiriet at driverdb.com (English)
• Career statistics from Pierre Thiriet at speedsport-magazine.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "European Le Mans Series: Team Thiriet by TDS Racing wants to fight for the title" (Motorsport-Server.de on March 29, 2012)
2. ↑ "ELMS: TDS wins, Loeb team in second place" (Motorsport-Total.com on April 1, 2012)
3. ↑ “LIST OF THE COMPETITORS AND CARS INVITED TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE CHECKINGS AND SCRUTINEERING - SUNDAY 10th and MONDAY 11th JUNE 2012” ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (lemans.org on March 26, 2012; PDF; 306 kB)