Vincent Capillaire

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Vincent Capillaire at the wheel of an Oreca 03R; at the 2014 Le Mans 24-hour race

Vincent Capillaire (born February 4, 1976 in Le Mans ) is a French racing car driver .

Career in motorsport

Vincent Capillaire began his career in 1997 in the French Formula Renault championship and returned to motorsport as a sports car driver in 2009 after a ten-year absence . He drove for DAMS in Formula Le Mans and also competed in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series and the V de V Challenge Endurance Moderne - Proto . After finishing second overall in 2013, he won the final ranking of this series in 2014.

From 2014 he competed for various teams in the European Le Mans Series and the FIA World Endurance Championship and was thus entered three times in the Le Mans 24-hour race . His best place in the final classification was eighth in the Oreca 03R used by Sébastien Loeb , together with Jan Charouz and René Rast in 2014 .

In addition to his activities as a racing driver, Capillaire also works as a driver instructor and trainer.

The Toyota affair

During the 2017 Le Mans 24-hour race , Capillaire was involved in the failure of Kamui Kobayashi's Toyota TS050 Hybrid . At the pit exit, Capillaire showed the Japanese waiting there during a safety car phase in the Toyota with the number 7 thumbs up. Kobayashi mistook Capillaire for a marshal and wanted to drive off despite the red light. He was instructed to stop again over the radio. When he was finally able to drive off, the clutch on the Toyota broke. Capillaire apologized for the misunderstood gesture after the race.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate Teammate placement Failure reason
2014 FranceFrance Sébastien Loeb Racing Oreca 03R Czech RepublicCzech Republic Jan Charouz GermanyGermany René Rast Rank 8
2015 FranceFrance Signatech Alpine Alpine A450b FranceFrance Nelson Panciatici FranceFrance Paul-Loup Chatin failure accident
2016 FranceFranceSO24! by Lombard Racing Ligier JS P2 FranceFrance Érik Maris United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jonathan Coleman Rank 32
2017 PortugalPortugal Algarve Pro Racing Ligier JS P217 United StatesUnited States Matt McMurry United StatesUnited States Mark Patterson Rank 32
2018 FranceFrance Graff SO24 Oreca 07 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Jonathan Hirschi FranceFrance Tristan Gommendy Rank 6
2019 FranceFrance Graff Oreca 07 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Jonathan Hirschi FranceFrance Tristan Gommendy Rank 14

Web links

Commons : Vincent Capillaire  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vincent Capillaire and the Thumb
  2. ↑ Toyota accepts Capillaire's apology
personal data
SURNAME Capillaire, Vincent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Mans