Romain Dumas

Romain Dumas 2019

The Porsche 919 Hybrid of Neel Jani , Marc Lieb and Romain Dumas at the 24-hour race at Le Mans in 2016

Romain Dumas in the 2007 Porsche RS Spyder

Romain Dumas (born December 14, 1977 in Alès ) is a French racing driver .

Dumas started karting in 1992 before switching to formula racing in 1996 and taking part in the French Formula Renault . In 1998 he took part in the French Formula 3 championship . Romain Dumas was together with Marc Lieb and Neel Jani FIA World Endurance Champion of the 2016 season.

Career

He tested a Formula 3000 Monoposto for Team Oreca in 1999 and a Renault F1 in 2002 . In 2004 he tested for the Champ Car Team Conquest Racing. However, he did not drive a race in any of these formula series.

In 2001 and 2002 he started in the Formula 3000 Euro Series.

Since 2001 he has competed in every 24-hour race at Le Mans , where he achieved overall victory in the Audi R15 TDI in 2010 together with Timo Bernhard and Mike Rockenfeller . In 2004 he moved to the American Le Mans Series and drove for Alex Job Racing in the GT2 category. From 2006 he started for Penske Racing in a Porsche RS Spyder and in 2007 won the drivers' championship in the LMP2 class together with Timo Bernhard.

In 2007, 2008 and 2009 he won the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring together with Timo Bernhard, Marc Lieb and Marcel Tiemann for the Manthey Racing team .

Dumas has been a works driver at Porsche for many years and remained so for Audi during his sports car days at Joest Racing . Since 2013 he has been driving exclusively for Porsche again, driving the Porsche 919 Hybrid in the FIA World Endurance Championship .

On November 25, 2016, Porsche announced that Romain Dumas and his teammate Marc Lieb would leave the LMP1 team with the two Le Mans prototypes 919 Hybrid at the end of the 2016 season and take on new tasks within Porsche. This ended his long career as a Porsche works driver.

Pikes Peak

In 2014/16/17 he won the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with vehicles from Norma Auto Concept .

In March 2018, Volkswagen announced that it would take part in the 96th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in the unlimited class with Romain Dumas as driver with an electric racing car. In the win on June 24, 2018, he set Pikes Peak in the VW ID R with 7 minutes and 57 seconds set a new record.

North loop

Romain Dumas has been holding the record time for electric vehicles on the Nordschleife since June 2019 with the VW ID R Pikes Peak (6: 05.336 minutes, average speed 206.96 km / h).

Goodwood Festival of Speed

At the Hill Climb Shootout of the Goodwood Festival of Speed , Romain Dumas has held the track record of 39.9 seconds with the VW ID R Pikes Peak since 2019.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2001	Freising Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3 RS	Gunnar Jeannette	Philippe Haezebrouck	Rank 7
2002	Freising Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3 RS	Sascha Maassen	Jörg Bergmeister	Rank 17
2003	Team Nasamax	Reynard 01Q	Robbie Stirling	Werner Lupberger	failure	Fire
2004	Freising Motorsport	Porsche 996 GT3 RSR	Stéphane Ortelli	Ralf Kelleners	Rank 13
2005	IMSA performance	Porsche 996 GT3 RSR	Raymond Narac	Sébastien Dumez	Rank 15
2006	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 996 GT3 RSR	Raymond Narac	Luca Riccitelli	failure	Engine failure
2007	Pescarolo sport	Pescarolo 01	Emmanuel Collard	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Rank 3
2008	Pescarolo sport	Pescarolo 01	Emmanuel Collard	Jean-Christophe Boullion	failure	Engine failure
2009	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R15 TDI	Timo Bernhard	Alexandre Prémat	Rank 17
2010	Audi Sport North America	Audi R15 TDI	Timo Bernhard	Mike Rockenfeller	Overall victory
2011	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R18	Timo Bernhard	Mike Rockenfeller	failure	accident
2012	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R18 ultra	Marc Gené	Loïc Duval	Rank 5
2013	Porsche AG Team Manthey	Porsche 911 RSR	Richard Lietz	Marc Lieb	15th place and class win
2014	Porsche team	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Neel Jani	Marc Lieb	Rank 11
2015	Porsche team	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Neel Jani	Marc Lieb	Rank 5
2016	Porsche team	Porsche 919 Hybrid	Neel Jani	Marc Lieb	Overall victory
2017	Signatech Alpine Matmut	Alpine A470	Gustavo Menezes	Matthew Rao	Rank 10
2018	Porsche GT Team	Porsche 991 RSR GTE	Timo Bernhard	Sven Müller	failure	Chassis break
2019	Duqueine engineering	Oreca 07	Nicolas Jamin	Pierre Ragues	Rank 12

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2002	Freising Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3-RS	Ni Amorim	Hans Fertl	failure	Wagon fire
2003	Team Nasamax	Reynard 01Q	Bryan Herta	Robbie Stirling	failure	Engine failure
2004	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR	Lucas Luhr	Marc Lieb	Rank 10
2005	Alex Job Racing	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	Sascha Maassen	Timo Bernhard	failure	Engine failure
2006	Penske Motorsports	Porsche RS Spyder	Patrick Long	Timo Bernhard	failure	mechanics
2007	Penske Racing	Porsche RS Spyder	Helio Castroneves	Timo Bernhard	Rank 5
2008	Penske Racing	Porsche RS Spyder	Emmanuel Collard	Timo Bernhard	Overall victory
2011	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R15 TDI	Mike Rockenfeller	Timo Bernhard	Rank 5
2012	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R18 TDI	Loïc Duval	Timo Bernhard	Rank 2
2013	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	HPD ARX-03c	Lucas Luhr	Klaus Graf	Rank 4
2018	Core autosport	Oreca 07	Colin Braun	Jon Bennett	Rank 4
2019	Core autosport	Nissan DPi	Colin Braun	Jon Bennett	Rank 5

Individual results in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
2012	Audi Team Joest	Audi R18	SEB	SPA	LEM	SIL	SAO	BAH	FUJ	SHA
			2	1	5
2013	Porsche Team Manthey	Porsche 911 RSR	SIL	SPA	LEM	SAO	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			17th	19th	15th
2014	Porsche	Porsche 919 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH	SAO
			DNF	4th	11	4th	4th	3	2	1
2015	Porsche	Porsche 919 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			2	2	5	2	12	2	2	1
2016	Porsche	Porsche 919 Hybrid	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
			1	2	1	4th	4th	4th	5	4th	6th
2017	Signatech Alpine	Alpine A470	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
				11	10
2018/19	Porsche Duqueine Engineering	Porsche 991 RSR GTE Oreca 07	SPA	LEM	SIL	FUJ	SHA	SEB	SPA	LEM
				DNF						12

Web links

Commons : Romain Dumas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• official homepage
• Romain Dumas at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The newest member of the ID family: The ID R Pikes Peak - volkswagen-media-services.com. Accessed April 16, 2018 (German). 
2. ↑ LIST OF THE COMPETITORS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 96TH RUNNING OF THE BROADMOOR PIKES PEAK INTERNATIONAL HILL CLIMB. Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, April 12, 2018, accessed April 16, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Record hunt at Pikes Peak: Electric beats combustion engines at motorsport-total.com
4. ↑ VW ID. R: Never before has an electric car rounded the Nürburgring so quickly. In: motor.at. June 3, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019 .