Tristan Vautier

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Tristan Vautier (2015)

Tristan Vautier (born August 22, 1989 in Saint-Martin-d'Hères , Département Isère ) is a French racing driver . He became the 2011 Star Mazda Series Master and the 2012 Indy Lights Master . In 2013 and 2015 he competed in the IndyCar Series . In 2018 he became champion in the Intercontinental GT Challenge .

Career

Vautier began his motorsport career in 2006 in the French Formula Renault Campus , where he immediately won the runner-up title. He was tied with his team-mate Kévin Estre , who, however, had better placements. In 2007 he switched to the French Formula Renault and finished fourth in the overall classification together with Charles Pic without a race win . In 2008 Vautier switched to the western European Formula Renault and finished sixth overall. In 2009 Vautier competed in the Formula Palmer Audi . With six wins he reached fourth place in the overall standings. At the last race weekend of the 2009 Formula 2 season , he made his Formula 2 debut as a replacement for Edoardo Piscopo . He showed a good performance and achieved a podium finish in third place in his first race. In addition, Vautier made his debut in GT racing in 2009 and took part in the French GT championship. With a win he finished 13th in the GT3 classification. In addition, Vautier took part in some races of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup between 2007 and 2009 .

In 2010 Vautier left Europe and moved to Andersen Racing's North American Star Mazda Series . Besides Conor Daly , who won the championship title, Vautier was the only racing driver to win more than one race. Nevertheless, he finished fifth in the drivers' championship with two wins, while his teammate Anders Krohn was runner-up without a win. In 2011 Vautier played his second season in the Star Mazda Series and moved to JDC Motorsports . He won four races and won the championship with 426 to 401 points against Connor De Phillippi . As a reward for winning the title, Vautier received financial support for 2012 and competed in the Indy Lights for Sam Schmidt Motorsports , last year's championship team. He immediately succeeded in gaining a start-to-finish victory at the season opener in St. Petersburg starting from pole position . In addition, he drove the fastest lap. He is the tenth pilot to win his Indy Lights debut. In the further course of the season Vautier won three races. In two of these, he achieved both pole position and the fastest race lap and led the race for most laps. At the end of the season, Vautier prevailed against his teammate Esteban Guerrieri with 461 to 453 points and won the overall ranking of the Indy Lights. In addition, Vautier took part in a long-distance race in the Blancpain Endurance Series in Europe .

In 2013 Vautier contested the entire season of the IndyCar Series . He stayed with his racing team, which started under the name Schmidt Peterson Motorsports in 2013 . In his debut race, the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg , Vautier qualified in sixth place and was in the top group until he had to retire for technical reasons. In the following race in Birmingham he achieved his only top 10 finish of the season in tenth. While his team mate Simon Pagenaud was third overall with 508 points, Vautier finished his debut season in 20th place as the best newcomer. However, he was also the only newcomer to have completed the entire season. In 2013, Vautier also took part in two races in the F1600 Championship Series and one race in the Rolex Sports Car Series .

In 2014 , Vautier was without a full-time cockpit. For SpeedSource Race Engineering he took part in four races of the newly founded United SportsCar Championship (USCC). He also competed for Sofrev ASP in a race in the Blancpain Endurance Series. In 2015 , Vautier joined the Indianapolis 500 for Dale Coyne Racing in the IndyCar Series. Originally, he was only supposed to qualify car # 19 for James Davison , who was unable to qualify. However, as Carlos Huertas , the driver of the second car with # 18, was injured, Vautier took over his car after qualifying and started the race. Vautier then received the # 19 vehicle for the rest of the season and came in 22nd overall. In addition, Vautier took part in a race in the United SportsCar Championship and for AKKA ASP in two races in the Blancpain Endurance Series.

In 2018 he won the drivers' championship in the Intercontinental GT Challenge as a Mercedes driver.

statistics

Career stations

  • 2016: Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup (7th place)
  • 2017 : IndyCar Series (36th place)
  • 2017: Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup, Pro (14th place)
  • 2017: WSCC , GTD (19th place)
  • 2018: Intercontinental GT Challenge (Champion)
  • 2018: Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup, Pro (3rd place)
  • 2018: WSCC, P (24th place)
  • 2019: Intercontinental GT Challenge (35th place)
  • 2019: WSCC, DPi (11th 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
2013 Schmidt Peterson Motorsport STP ALA LBH SAO INDY DET TXS Mil IOW POC GOAL MDO SNM BAL HOU HAIRDRYER 266 20th
21st 10 17th 16 16 28 11 14 ° 18th 21st 13 19th 19th 16 21st 12 11 ° 22nd 11 21st
2015 Dale Coyne Racing STP NOL LBH ALA IMS INDY DET TXS GOAL HAIRDRYER Mil IOW MDO POC SNM       172 22nd
          28 17th 4th 20th 17th 17th 16 12 6 ° 21st 23      
2017 Dale Coyne Racing STP LBH ALA PHO IMS INDY DET TXS ROA IOW GOAL MDO POC STL WGL SNM     15th 36.
                16 °                  

( Legend )

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2014 United StatesUnited States Speedsource Lola B12 / 80 United StatesUnited States Tristan Nunez United StatesUnited States Joel Miller failure malfunction
2017 United StatesUnited States SunEnergy1 Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 United StatesUnited States Kenny Habul United StatesUnited States Boris Said III Rank 18
2018 United StatesUnited States Spirit of Daytona Racing Cadillac DPi-VR United StatesUnited States Matt McMurry ItalyItaly Eddie Cheever III failure accident
2019 United StatesUnited States JDC Miller Motorsports Cadillac DPi-VR ColombiaColombia Juan Piedrahita CanadaCanada Mikhail Goikhberg Rank 7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Formula 2: Vautier replaces Piscopo in Barcelona" (Motorsport-Total.com on October 26, 2009)
  2. ↑ “Star Mazda: JDC inks Vautier for 2011”  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (indycar.com on February 15, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.indycar.com
  3. ↑ “Vautier joins Schmidt for 2012 Indy Lights season” (racer.com on November 18, 2011)
  4. ^ "Vautier wins from pole in series debut at St. Pete" (indycar.com on March 24, 2012)
  5. ^ Mark Glendenning: "Schmidt Peterson adds Tristan Vautier to IndyCar line-up". autosport.com, January 29, 2013, accessed January 29, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Pete Fink: "Hinchcliffe wins in the St-Pete chaos - bad luck for de Silvestro". Motorsport-Total.com, March 24, 2013, accessed March 29, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Mario Fritzsche: No medical clearance: Carlos Huertas misses the Indy 500. Motorsport-Total.com, May 22, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Jake Kilshaw: Vautier: "Strange Feeling" to Win IGTC Title Without Marciello. sportscar365.com, October 28, 2018, accessed June 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Vautier, Tristan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Martin-d'Hères , Isere department , France