Aurélien Panis (born 29 October 1994 in

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racing driver. He is best known for being the son of the former

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driver,

Olivier Panis Olivier Panis (; born 2 September 1966) is a French former racing driver. Panis raced in Formula One for ten seasons, earning his first and only win at the 1996 Monaco Grand Prix for the Ligier team. He is the father of racing driver Aurél ...

. 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 graduates ...

. He finished tenth. In 2012, he joined

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault Eurocup was a Formula Renault motor racing championship. Eurocup raced only on European circuits. It served as a support series to the Formula 3.5 V8, Formula Renault 3.5 Series as part of the World Series by Renault from 2005 to ...

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

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in 2013, and scored his first points in

. In 2014, he left Caterham but won two victories: one in Eurocup and another one in Northern European Cup. He joined

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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

World Touring Car Cup The FIA World Touring Car Cup (abbreviated to WTCR, referring to the use of TCR regulations) was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). It ...

(FIA WTCR) with an Audi RS3 LMS at

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Racing record

Career summary

^* Season still in progress.

Complete Formula V8 3.5 Series results

(

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

Complete World Touring Car Championship results

(

) (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

(

) (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

(

) (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 Sprint Cup results

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

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