Nicolas Lapierre

Nicolas Lapierre Lapierre at the 2013 6 Hours of Silverstone Nationality French Born 2 April 1984 Thonon-les-Bains, France Previous series 2007 2005-2007 2005-06-2007-08 2004 2003-2004 2002 2001-2002 2000-2002 24 Hours of Le Mans (GT1) GP2 Series A1 Grand Prix British Formula 3 Formula 3 Euroseries French Formula 3 French Formula Renault 2000 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup Championship titles 2005-06 A1 Grand Prix 24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 2007, 2009 - Best finish 3rd (2014) Class wins 1

Nicolas Lapierre (born 2 April 1984) is a French professional racing driver. He raced in the first three seasons of the GP2 Series and is currently a works driver for LADA Sport in the FIA World Touring Car Championship

Career history

Early career

Born in Thonon-les-Bains, Lapierre started his career in 1993 in karting, finishing 3rd in the French championship in 1996, 6th in the European Championships in 1997 and reaching the finals of the European Junior Championship in 1998 before moving to French Formula Renault in 1999. He stayed there for 2000 and 2001, 2001 also seeing two races in Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup. He again raced in French Formula Renault in 2002, also driving a full season of 2000 Eurocup and some races of French Formula Three (most of them being in the main class, although he drove two races in the B-Class also).

2003 saw Lapierre move to Formula Three Euroseries with the Signature team and earn a win in the Macau Grand Prix. He stayed in the Euroseries for 2004, also driving two races of British Formula 3.

With his reputation increasing and his talent proven, Lapierre was rewarded for his Euroseries performances with a drive in GP2 Series for current champions Arden Motorsport. He partnered with Heikki Kovalainen.

GP2 & A1GP

During 2005 Lapierre drove for A1 Team France in the A1 Grand Prix series helping the team win the championship and therefore the World Cup of Motorsport. Nicolas won both the sprint and main race events in Germany and Australia, the main race in Dubai and the sprint in Indonesia.

During 2006 he continued with the Arden team in GP2, however his season was interrupted by a spectacular first corner crash in Monaco in which he was a victim of someone else's accident. Nicolas received two compressed vertebrae in the crash and missed the British round of the series. Despite this, his points score was higher than the previous season's tally.

Lapierre was dropped at the end of 2006 and has since signed to participate in a 3rd season of GP2 for the DAMS team, which finished 10th overall in the constructors' standings and runs the French A1 GP team, which won the first season of A1 Grand Prix.

Touring Cars

Lapierre was announced as a LADA driver for the remainder of the 2015 World Touring Car Championship in August 2015, replacing Jaap van Lagen at the Russian team.^[1]

Racing record

Career results

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	Pos.
2009	Le Mans Series (LMP1)	Team Oreca	3	0	1	1	11	5th
2009	24 Hours of Le Mans (LMP1)	Team Oreca	1	0	0	0	N/A	5th
2008	Le Mans Series (LMP1)	Team Oreca	5	0	0	0	6	12th
2007-08	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team France	2	0	0	0	11	4th
2007	GP2 Series	DAMS	20	2	1	2	23	12th
2007	24 Hours of Le Mans (GT1)	Team Oreca	-	no	no	no	-	9th
2006-07	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team France	10	0	0	0	32	4th
2006	GP2 Series	Arden International	17	0	0	1	32	9th
2005-06	A1 Grand Prix	A1 Team France	10	6	2	2	76	1st
2005	GP2 Series	Arden International	23	0	1	1	21	12th
2004	Formula 3 Euroseries	Signature Plus	20	3	2	2	85	3rd
2004	British Formula 3	Signature Plus	2	0	0	0	0	NC
2003	Formula 3 Euroseries	Signature Plus	20	0	1	0	33	11th
2002	French Formula 3	Signature Plus	4	0	0		15	13th
2002	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup	Graff Racing	8	0	1	2	120	3rd
2002	French Formula Renault 2000						24	9th
2001	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup	Tech 1 Racing	2	0	0		4	26th
2001	French Formula Renault 2000						65	8th
2000	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup						12	20th

Complete Formula Three Euro Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2003	Signature Plus	Dallara F302/043	Sodemo	HOC 1 5	HOC 2 Ret	ADR 1 6	ADR 2 11	PAU 1 DSQ	PAU 2 15	NOR 1 6	NOR 2 6	LMS 1 13	LMS 2 5	NÜR 1 11	NÜR 2 Ret	A1R 1 16	A1R 2 10	ZAN 1 9	ZAN 2 9	HOC 1 3	HOC 2 7	MAG 1 5	MAG 2 6	11th	33
2004	Opel Team Signature-Plus	Dallara F304/004	Spiess-Opel	HOC 1 8	HOC 2 Ret	EST 1 3	EST 2 3	ADR 1 14	ADR 1 4	PAU 1 2	PAU 2 1	NOR 1 15	NOR 1 5	MAG 1 8	MAG 2 4	NÜR 1 8	NÜR 2 6	ZAN 1 2	ZAN 2 4	BRN 1 9	BRN 2 Ret	HOC 1 1	HOC 2 1	3rd	85

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	DC	Points
2005–06	France	GBR SPR	GBR FEA	GER SPR 1	GER FEA 1	POR SPR	POR FEA	AUS SPR 1	AUS FEA 1	MYS SPR	MYS FEA	UAE SPR 7	UAE FEA 1	RSA SPR	RSA FEA	IDN SPR 1	IDN FEA 8	MEX SPR	MEX FEA	USA SPR 2	USA FEA Ret	CHN SPR	CHN FEA 6	1st	172
2006–07		NED SPR 3	NED FEA Ret	CZE SPR 3	CZE FEA Ret	CHN SPR 17	CHN FEA 4	MYS SPR 6	MYS FEA 3	IDN SPR 7	IDN FEA 3	NZL SPR	NZL FEA	AUS SPR	AUS FEA	RSA SPR	RSA FEA	MEX SPR	MEX FEA	CHN SPR	CHN FEA	GBR SPR	GBR SPR	4th	67
2007–08		NED SPR	NED FEA	CZE SPR 6	CZE FEA 5	MYS SPR	MYS FEA	CHN SPR	CHN FEA	NZL SPR	NZL FEA	AUS SPR	AUS FEA	RSA SPR	RSA FEA	MEX SPR	MEX FEA	CHN SPR	CHN FEA	GBR SPR	GBR FEA			4th	118

Complete GP2 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	DC	Points
2005	Arden International	SMR FEA DNS	SMR SPR Ret	ESP FEA 11	ESP SPR 9	MON FEA Ret	EUR FEA 12	EUR SPR Ret	FRA FEA 3	FRA SPR 5	GBR FEA 10	GBR SPR Ret	GER FEA 9	GER SPR 7	HUN FEA 12	HUN SPR 6	TUR FEA Ret	TUR SPR 13	ITA FEA 4	ITA SPR Ret	BEL FEA Ret	BEL SPR 23	BHR FEA 6	BHR SPR 20	12th	21
2006	Arden International	VAL FEA 4	VAL SPR 3	SMR FEA 3	SMR SPR 7	EUR FEA 5	EUR SPR 2	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR Ret	MON FEA Ret	GBR FEA	GBR SPR	FRA FEA	FRA SPR	GER FEA 20	GER SPR 7	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR Ret	TUR FEA 14	TUR SPR 6	ITA FEA 6	ITA SPR 4			9th	32
2007	DAMS	BHR FEA 7	BHR SPR 1	ESP FEA Ret	ESP SPR DNS	MON FEA Ret	FRA FEA 8	FRA SPR Ret	GBR FEA Ret	GBR SPR DNS	EUR FEA 9	EUR SPR Ret	HUN FEA Ret	HUN SPR 14	TUR FEA 15	TUR SPR Ret	ITA FEA 10	ITA SPR 17	BEL FEA 1	BEL SPR 21	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 21			12th	23

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2007	Team Oreca	Stéphane Ortelli Soheil Ayari	Saleen S7-R	GT1	318	16th	9th
2009	Team Oreca-Matmut AIM	Olivier Panis Soheil Ayari	Oreca 01-AIM	LMP1	370	5th	5th
2010	Team Oreca-Matmut	Olivier Panis Loïc Duval	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	LMP1	373	DNF	DNF
2011	Team Oreca-Matmut	Olivier Panis Loïc Duval	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	LMP1	339	5th	5th
2012	Toyota Racing	Alexander Wurz Kazuki Nakajima	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	LMP1	134	DNF	DNF
2013	Toyota Racing	Alexander Wurz Kazuki Nakajima	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	LMP1	341	4th	4th
2014	Toyota Racing	Anthony Davidson Sébastien Buemi	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	LMP1-H	374	3rd	3rd
2015	KCMG	Matthew Howson Richard Bradley	Oreca 05-Nissan	LMP2	358	9th	1st

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2012	Toyota Racing	LMP1	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	Toyota 3.4 L V8 (Hybrid)	SEB	SPA	LMS Ret	SIL 2	SÃO 1	BHR Ret	FUJ 1	SHA 1		3rd	96
2013	Toyota Racing	LMP1	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	Toyota 3.4 L V8 (Hybrid)	SIL 4	SPA Ret	LMS 4	SÃO	COA	FUJ 1	SHA 2	BHR Ret		4th	69.5
2014	Toyota Racing	LMP1	Toyota TS040 Hybrid	Toyota 3.7 L V8 (Hybrid)	SIL 1	SPA 1	LMS 3	COA 3	FUJ	SHA	BHR	SÃO		6th	96
2015	KCMG	LMP2	Oreca 05	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL	SPA 3	LMS 1	NÜR	COA 2	FUJ	SHA	BHR		5th	84
2016	Signatech-Alpine	LMP2	Alpine A460	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL 4	SPA	LMS	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	4th*	12*

^* Season still in progress.

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2015	Lada Sport Rosneft	Lada Vesta WTCC	ARG 1	ARG 2	MAR 1	MAR 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	GER 1	GER 2	RUS 1	RUS 2	SVK 1	SVK 2	FRA 1	FRA 2	POR 1	POR 2	JPN 1 11	JPN 2 8	CHN 1 DSQ	CHN 2 9	THA 1 Ret	THA 2 DNS	QAT 1 10	QAT 2 10	16th	8

References

1. Abbott, Andrew (28 August 2015). "LADA sign Nicolas Lapierre to complete season". TouringCars.Net. Retrieved 28 August 2015.

External links

• Nicolas Lapierre official website
• Career statistic driverdb.com
• A1GP Driver Statistics results.a1gp.com