Aurélien Antoine Philippe Panis (born 29 October 1994) is a professional French racing driver. He is best known for being the son of the former

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driver,

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. From

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he is one of the two drivers of

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- the first non-Hungarian the team has fielded in the WTCC.

Career

Aurélien Panis began his career in

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in the national

French F4 Championship French F4 Championship, formerly known as Formula Renault Campus France, Formula Campus, Formul'Academy Euro Series, F4 Eurocup 1.6 is a form of open wheel racing founded in 1993 by Louis Drouet. It is based in France and aims at karting gradua ...

. He finished tenth. In 2012, he joined Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 Alps, but scored no points in Eurocup, and only 26 in Alps. He became a member of the Caterham Racing Academy, from Caterham F1 Team in 2013, and scored his first points in Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0. In 2014, he left Caterham but won two victories: one in Eurocup and another one in Northern European Cup. He joined Formula Renault 3.5 Series for

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, with

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. Next year, in the series - which was renamed as Formula V8 3.5 Series - he scored two wins and finished the championship in 5th position. In 2017, he decided to switch for touring cars as he started the year in WTCC with a Honda Civic TC1 car at

. But after five round, he split with the Hungarian team and went towards

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where he participated with the

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squad. In the later championship he took one win with the Belgian team's Honda Civic TCR. In 2019 he would race in

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(FIA WTCR) with an Audi RS3 LMS at

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Racing record

Career summary

^* Season still in progress.

Complete French F4 Championship results

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

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series results

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

Complete Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) † As Panis was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 NEC results

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

Complete Formula V8 3.5 Series results

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

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^† Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete TCR International Series results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^† Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete World Touring Car Cup results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^† Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete European Le Mans Series results

^‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.

Complete GT World Challenge Europe results

GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) * Season still in progress.

Complete GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^* Season still in progress.

References

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