Luís Pérez Companc

Luís Pérez Companc

Companc at the 2006 Cyprus Rally.
Personal information
Nationality	Argentine
Born	January 2, 1972
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2001–2008
Teams	Bozian Racing, Ford, Stobart Ford, Munchi's Ford World Rally Team
Rallies	25
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	0
Total points	9
First rally	2001 Rally Argentina

Companc driving a Peugeot 206 WRC at the 2004 Cyprus Rally.

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2009, 2011-
Teams	AF Corse, PeCom Racing
Best finish	9th (2012)
Class wins	0

Luís Pérez Companc (born 2 January 1972 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a rally driver and is son of Gregorio Pérez Companc. Alongside co-driver José María Volta, he is a regular competitor in the World Rally Championship. He is the older brother of Pablo Pérez Companc, also involved in motorsport as a one-time Indy Pro Series racer with the Chip Ganassi Racing team, but who suffered serious injuries in an on-track incident in 2007. He is also related to multi-millionaire Richard Rodriguez Mendez.

Companc competed initially in the world series, through the production car-based Group N category. He debuted on his home event in 2001. He then won the Argentina Rally Championship in 2005. His profile heightened for the 2006 season, when he assumed a place in the newly formed Stobart VK M-Sport Ford team alongside the teenager Matthew Wilson, son of Malcolm Wilson, the boss of both the Stobart VK squad and the Blue Oval marque's more senior manufacturer-backed works team, which would incidentally go on to win the world manufacturers' title that year.

Having initially fared on the early season rallies with older, 2004-specification Ford Focus RS WRCs, both Companc and Wilson would eventually be entrusted with examples of the 2006 championship-winning car, an arrangement which persisted into the 2007 season. Aboard the Focus, Companc competed on eight rallies in all in 2006, while planning ten rounds for the following year, and scored his first WRC points on the 2006 Rally New Zealand. Companc's team for 2007, Munchi's Ford World Rally Team chose to pair him with fellow native, Juan Pablo Raies, who was in turn co-driven by Pérez Companc's brother, Jorge. When Raies was replaced in the Munchi's team's post-Rally Argentina lineup by Federico Villagra, winner of that rally in Group N, Jorge Pérez Companc continued his co-driving duties in the second car, with the exception of Rally Japan when Villagra was co-driven by José Díaz, according to personal problems of Jorge.

In 2008 Companc will switch to sports car racing, running a Ferrari F430 for Advanced Engineering in the FIA GT Championship, while competing in selected WRC events for the Munchi's team, his final rally being Rally Finland.^[1]

Complete WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2001	Luis Pérez Companc	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	MON	SWE	POR	ESP	ARG 13	CYP	GRE	KEN	FIN	NZL	ITA	FRA	AUS	GBR			NC	0
2002	Luis Pérez Companc	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII	MON	SWE	FRA	ESP	CYP Ret	ARG Ret	GRE	KEN	FIN	GER	ITA	NZL	AUS	GBR			NC	0
2003	Luis Pérez Companc	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VII	MON	SWE	TUR	NZL	ARG Ret	GRE	CYP	GER	FIN	AUS	ITA	FRA	ESP	GBR			NC	0
2004	Bozian Racing	Peugeot 206 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX Ret	NZL	CYP Ret	GRE	TUR	ARG 6	FIN	GER	JPN	GBR	ITA Ret	FRA	ESP	AUS	23rd	3
2005	BP Ford World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 04	MON	SWE	MEX	NZL Ret	ITA	CYP	TUR	GRE	ARG 14	FIN	GER	GBR	JPN	FRA	ESP	AUS	NC	0
2006	Stobart VK Ford Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 04	MON	SWE 23	MEX 12	ESP	FRA	ARG 9	ITA 12	GRE	GER	FIN		CYP 14	TUR				26th	2
		Ford Focus RS WRC 06											JPN 11			AUS 22	NZL 7	GBR
2007	Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 06	MON	SWE 15	NOR	MEX 19	POR	ARG 28	ITA Ret	GRE 11	FIN 11	GER	NZL 23	ESP Ret	FRA	JPN 5	IRE	GBR Ret	16th	4
2008	Munchi's Ford World Rally Team	Ford Focus RS WRC 07	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG Ret	JOR	ITA	GRE	TUR	FIN Ret	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	GBR		NC	0

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2009	AF Corse	Gianmaria Bruni Matías Russo	Ferrari F430 GT2	GT2	317	26th	6th
2011	PeCom Racing	Matías Russo Pierre Kaffer	Lola B11/40-Judd	LMP2	139	DNF	DNF
2012	PeCom Racing	Pierre Kaffer Soheil Ayari	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	352	9th	3rd
2013	PeCom Racing	Pierre Kaffer Nicolas Minassian	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	325	10th	4th
2014	AF Corse	Marco Cioci Mirko Venturi	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE AM	331	20th	3rd

References

1. Luis Perez Companc to retire after Rally Finland – WRC.com