Simon Pagenaud

Simon Pagenaud 2019

Simon Pagenaud with Roger Penske and Donald Trump after his victory at the Indianapolis 500 2019

Simon Pagenaud at the finish line in Indianapolis 2019

Simon Pagenaud with Pedro Lamy and Sébastien Bourdais at the drivers parade for the 2011 Le Mans 24 Hours

Simon Pagenaud (born May 18, 1984 in Poitiers ) is a French racing driver . In 2006 he won the Atlantic Championship . In 2010, he and David Brabham won the American Le Mans Series championship title . He has been competing in the IndyCar Series since 2012 , where he won the drivers' championship in 2016.

Career

Pagenaud started his motorsport career in formula racing in 2001 in the French Formula Renault Campus and immediately became runner-up. In 2002 he switched to the French Formula Renault. The racing driver won a race and finished third overall. He also competed in a Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup race . In 2003, Pagenaud stayed in both racing series. While he deteriorated to sixth place overall in the French Formula Renault, he was third in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup with a victory. He also took part in two German Formula Renault races.

In 2004 he defended sixth overall position in the French Formula Renault and was runner-up in the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup with two wins behind Scott Speed . In 2005 he switched to Formula Renault 3.5 . With fourth place as the best result, he finished 16th in the overall ranking. In 2006 he moved to North America and started for Team Australia in the Atlantic Championship . Although he only won one race, he secured the championship title from Graham Rahal , who won five races.

In 2007 Pagenaud switched to the Champ Car series after winning the title , where he also competed for Team Australia. While his teammate Will Power won two races, Pagenaud failed to finish on the podium and fourth place was his best result. At the end of the season he finished eighth overall. After the Champ Car Series was reunited with the IndyCar Series in 2008 , the racing driver was without a cockpit.

Pagenaud switched instead to the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and became a teammate of Gil de Ferran . The two finished the season in ninth place in the LMP2 classification. He also made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . In 2009, as in the previous year, he took part in the ALMS. Although de Ferran and Pagenaud won half of all races, it was only enough for the runner-up title. In 2010 he moved to Patron Highcroft Racing and became a teammate of David Brabham . The two won four races and won the championship title in the LMP class. In 2009 and 2010 he also took part in one race of the Le Mans Series , which he won. In 2011 Pagenaud initially stayed with Highcroft Racing in the AMLS. After a race he switched to Peugeot , for which he took part in some sports car races in the ALMS, Le Mans Series and the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup . Together with Sébastien Bourdais , he won the race at Silverstone . He finished second in the Le Mans 24-hour race in a Peugeot 908 . This was his first finish at Le Mans. In addition, Pagenaud returned to formula racing and made his debut in the second race of the IndyCar Series for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing . He replaced Ana Beatriz , who had to retire with a wrist injury, for a race and finished in eighth place. In the further course of the 2011 season he came again to Dreyer & Reinbold Racing, this time as injuries representative for Justin Wilson , and once at HVM Racing as a substitute for Simona de Silvestro . In the overall standings he was finally 31. In 2011 he also took part in two races of the V8 Supercar Championship Series .

For the 2012 season , Pagenaud received an IndyCar cockpit from Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports . Already at the start of the season in St. Petersburg he achieved a best training time and qualified within the top six. However, due to an early engine change, he started the race from 16th place on the grid. He reached the goal in sixth place, which was his best IndyCar placement to date. At the second race in Birmingham he managed to improve this position and he finished in fifth place. A race later in Long Beach followed with a second place and his first podium finish. In Detroit , at the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio and in Baltimore , he was again on the podium in third place. In 2012, Pagenaud won the rookie championship by a large margin and was fifth overall as the second-best Honda driver. He also took part in a race in the American Le Mans Series. In 2013 , Pagenaud stayed with his racing team in the IndyCar Series. After finishing in the top 10 four times in the first six races, he won the second race in Detroit . It was the first IndyCar win for him and his team. Six races later at Lexington , Pagenaud led the race for a few laps. However, he had to admit defeat to Charlie Kimball and finished in second place. After a fifth place in the following race, Pagenaud achieved his second win of the season in Baltimore . In the overall standings he improved to third place and was again the second best Honda driver. In addition, he entered two races in the LMP2 class of the ALMS for Level 5 Motorsports . He decided this rating once together with Scott Tucker . Pagenaud also competed in a Rolex Sports Car Series race.

In 2014 , Pagenaud completed his third full season in the IndyCar Series for Schmidt. After finishing in the top five in the first three races, he scored a victory at the Indianapolis Grand Prix . In Houston , Pagenaud decided another race for themselves. Pagenaud had a chance for the title until the last race and eventually finished fifth in the drivers' standings. This made Pagenaud the best Honda driver for the first time. In addition, he competed for Extreme Speed ​​Motorsports in two races in the newly founded United SportsCar Championship (USCC).

For 2015 , Pagenaud received an IndyCar cockpit from Team Penske , who introduced a fourth vehicle for him. While his three teammates Juan Pablo Montoya , Power and Hélio Castroneves had title chances by the end of the season and ended the season in the top 5 of the championship, Pagenaud was eleventh overall. Two third places in Detroit and Lexington were his best results. He also competed for Corvette Racing in two races in the 2015 United SportsCar Championship .

In 2016 , Pagenaud stayed with Penske in the IndyCar Series. At the season opener in St. Petersburg , Pagenaud achieved the most leading laps and finished second behind his team-mate Montoya. At the second run in Phoenix he also came in second and took over the championship lead, which he held until the end of the season. He won the next three races in Long Beach , Birmingham and Indianapolis . In the remaining eleven races of the season, Pagenaud achieved three more podium finishes. In Detroit he finished second, the race in Lexington and the season finale in Sonoma , he won. Pagenaud finally prevailed against his teammate Power with 659 points to 532 points. His other teammates Castroneves and Montoya finished third and eighth respectively.

He finished second overall in 2017 and 2019 and also won the Indianapolis 500 in 2019 .

statistics

Career stations

2001: French Formula Renault Campus (2nd place) 2002: French Formula Renault (3rd place) 2002: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (24th place) 2003: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (3rd place) 2003: French Formula Renault (6th place) 2003: German Formula Renault 2004: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup (2nd place) 2004: French Formula Renault (6th place) 2005: Formula Renault 3.5 (16th place) 2005: French Formula Renault 2006: Atlantic Championship (champions) 2007 : Champ Car (8th place) 2008: ALMS , LMP2 (9th place) 2009: ALMS, LMP1 (2nd place)

2009 : Le Mans Series , LMP1 (10th place) 2010: ALMS, LMP (master) 2010 : Le Mans Series, LMP1 (14th place) 2011: ALMS, LMP1 2011 : Le Mans Series, LMP1 2011: ILMC 2011 : IndyCar Series (31st place) 2011: V8 Supercar Championship Series (49th place) 2012 : IndyCar Series (5th place) 2012: ALMS, LMP1 (8th place) 2013 : IndyCar Series (3rd place) 2013: ALMS, LMP2 (8th place) 2013: Rolex Sports Car Series , DP 2014 : IndyCar Series (5th place)

2014 : USCC , Prototype (32nd place) 2015 : IndyCar Series (11th place) 2015 : USCC, GTLM (18th place) 2016 : IndyCar Series (Champion) 2016: WSCC , P (22nd place) 2017 : IndyCar Series (2nd place) 2017: WSCC, P (30th place) 2018 : IndyCar Series (6th place) 2018: WSCC, P (34th place) 2019 : IndyCar Series (2nd place) 2019: WSCC, DPi (20th place)

Individual results in the IndyCar Series

year	team	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	Points	rank
2011	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	TXS		Mil	IOW	GOAL	EDM	MDO	NHA	SNM	BAL	MOT	KTY	LSV		56	31.
			8th										13
	HVM Racing														15th
2012	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsport	STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	DET	TXS	Mil	IOW	GOAL	EDM	MDO	SNM	BAL	HAIRDRYER					387	5.
		6th	5	2 *	12	16 23	3	6th	13	5	12	20th	3	7th	3	15th
2013	Schmidt-Hamilton Motorsport	STP	ALA	LBH	SAO	INDY	DET		TXS	Mil	IOW	POC	GOAL		MDO	SNM	BAL	HOU		HAIRDRYER	508	3.
		24	6th	8th	9	8 21	12	1 °	13	12	6 11	6th	9	12	2 °	5	1 °	4th	6th	13
2014	Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Motorsports	STP	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		TXS	HOU		POC	IOW	GOAL		MDO	Mil	SNM	HAIRDRYER		565	5.
		5	5	4th	1 °	12 7.5	22nd	6th	4th	16 °	1 °	6th	11	4 °	22nd	9	7th	3	20th
2015	Team Penske	STP	NOL	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		TXS	GOAL	HAIRDRYER	Mil	IOW	MDO	POC	SNM				384	11.
		5 °	20th	4th	9 °	25th	10 °	3	14th	11 °	11	9 °	9	14th	3	7 °	16
2016	Team Penske	STP	PHO	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		ROA	IOW	GOAL	MDO	POC	TXS	WGL	SNM				659	1.
		2 *	2	1 °	1*	1*	19 8	13 *	2 *	13 °	4 °	9 °	1 °	18 °	4th	7th	1*
2017	Team Penske	STP	LBH	ALA	PHO	IMS	INDY	DET		TXS	ROA	IOW	GOAL	MDO	POC	STL	WGL	SNM			629	2.
		2 °	5	3	1*	4th	14 23	16	5	3	4th	7 °	5 °	4th	4th	3 °	9	1*
2018	Team Penske	STP	PHO	LBH	ALA	IMS	INDY	DET		TXS	ROA	IOW	GOAL	MDO	POC	STL	POR	SNM			492	6th
		13	10 °	24	9	8th	6 ° 2	17th	10	2 °	7th	8th	2 °	8th	8th	4th	6th	4th
2019	Team Penske	STP	COA	ALA	LBH	IMS	INDY	DET		TXS	ROA	GOAL	IOW	MDO	POC	STL	POR	LAG			616	2.
		7th	19th	9	6th	1 °	1 * 1	6th	17th	6th	9	1*	4 °	6th	3 *	5 °	7th	4 °
2020	Team Penske	TXS	IMS	ROA		IOW		INDY	STL		IMS		STP	MDO							195	2.
		2	3	12	13	1*	4th

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Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2008	Oreca	Courage-ORECA LC70	Olivier Panis	Marcel Fässler	failure	accident
2009	Pescarolo sport	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Jean-Christophe Boullion	Benoît Tréluyer	failure	accident
2010	Team Peugeot Total	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Pedro Lamy	Sébastien Bourdais	failure	suspension
2011	Team Peugeot Total	Peugeot 908	Pedro Lamy	Sébastien Bourdais	Rank 2

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2009	de Ferran Motorsports	Acura ARX-02a	Gil de Ferran	Scott Dixon	failure	mechanics
2010	Patrón Highcroft Racing	HPD ARX-01c	Marino Franchitti	David Brabham	Rank 5
2011	Highcroft Racing	HPD ARX-01e	Marino Franchitti	David Brabham	Rank 2
2012	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	HPD ARX-03a	Klaus Graf	Lucas Luhr	failure	malfunction
2013	Level 5 motorsports	HPD ARX-03b	Scott Tucker	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Rank 7
2014	Extreme speed motorsports	HPD ARX-03b	Ed Brown	Johannes van Overbeek	Rank 5
2015	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Tommy Milner	Oliver Gavin	failure	malfunction
2018	Acura Team Penske	Acura ARX-05	Juan Pablo Montoya	Dane Cameron	failure	Engine failure
2019	Acura Team Penske	Acura ARX-05	Juan Pablo Montoya	Dane Cameron	Rank 9

Web links

Commons : Simon Pagenaud  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website of Simon Pagenaud
• Career statistics of Simon Pagenaud (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Pagenaud to fill in for Beatriz at Barber” ( Memento from April 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (indycar.com on April 6, 2011)
2. ↑ “Simon Pagenaud confirmed in Sam Schmidt Motorsports IndyCar team for 2012” (autosport.com on December 8, 2011)
3. ^ "Third training in St. Pete: Pagenaud before Power" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 24, 2012)
4. ↑ "Changing the engine at Pagenaud" (Motorsport-Total.com on March 23, 2012)
5. ^ Marshall Pruett: "INDYCAR: Rahal Leads Free Agent Class For 2013". (No longer available online.) Speedtv.com, August 1, 2012, archived from the original on November 21, 2012 ; accessed on November 10, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Marshall Pruett: "INSIGHT: IndyCar silly season update". Page 2. (No longer available online.) Racer.com, July 26, 2013, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; accessed on November 20, 2013 (English). 
7. ↑ Philipp Schajer: "IndyCar - Pagenaud changes to Penske". A dream becomes true. Motorsport-Magazin.com, September 29, 2014, accessed October 3, 2014 .