Nicolas Lapierre

Nicolas Lapierre Nationality French Born 2 April 1984 (1984-04-02) (age 27) 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 2009 - Teams Team Oreca Matmut Best finish 5th (2009) Class wins 0

Nicolas Lapierre (born 2 April 1984) is a French race car driver born in Thonon-les-Bains, France. He raced in the first three seasons of the GP2 Series.

Career history

Early career

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's real break, though, with a move to Formula Three Euroseries with the Signature team, but more notably a win in the Macau Grand Prix. He stayed in the Euroseries for 2004, also driving two races of British Formula Three.

With his reputuation 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.

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	11th
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		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 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	11th	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	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2007	GT1	55	M	Saleen S7-R Ford 7.0L V8	Team Oreca	Stéphane Ortelli Soheil Ayari	318	16th	9th
2009	LMP1	11	M	Oreca 01 AIM (Judd) YS5.5 5.5L V10	Team Oreca Matmut AIM	Olivier Panis Soheil Ayari	370	5th	5th
2010	LMP1	4	M	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP Peugeot HDi 5.5L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	Team Oreca Matmut	Olivier Panis Loïc Duval	373	DNF	DNF
2011	LMP1	10	M	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP Peugeot HDi 5.5L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	Team Oreca Matmut	Loïc Duval Olivier Panis	339	5th	5th

Sources

• Biography page nicolaslapierre.com
• Career statistic driverdb.com

External links

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

Sporting positions
Preceded by Tristan Gommendy	Macau Grand Prix Winner 2003	Succeeded by Alexandre Prémat
Preceded by None	A1 Grand Prix Championship Winner 2006-07 With Alexandre Prémat	Succeeded by Michael Ammermüller Marco Holzer Nico Hülkenberg

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Name	Lapierre, Nicolas
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Date of birth	2 April 1984
Place of birth	Thonon-les-Bains (France)
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