Loïc Duval (; born 12 June 1982) is a French professional racing driver racing for Audi Sport as a factory driver in DTM and driving for

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. He won the

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with

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and

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driving the

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for Audi Sport. So far he won 42 races in the different categories he raced.

Career

Loic Duval 2010 Formula Nippon Motegi (May) FP2

Born in

Chartres Chartres () is the prefecture of the Eure-et-Loir department in the Centre-Val de Loire region in France. It is located about southwest of Paris. At the 2019 census, there were 170,763 inhabitants in the metropolitan area of Chartres (as d ...

, Duval began his career in

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and in 2002 was the Formula Campus France champion. In 2003 he was the Formula Renault 2000 France champion. In 2004 he placed eleventh with two podiums in the

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and tested for

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. The next year he finished sixth in F3 Euro Series and won a pole at the

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. He then moved to Japan where he began racing in

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and

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. In 2007 he continued in Formula Nippon and made two starts for

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in the

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series in Australia and New Zealand. He won the 2009 Formula Nippon Championship with four wins driving for Nakajima Racing after finishing second in 2008. On 11 June 2014, the Le Mans Audi No. 1 driven by Duval was severely damaged, casting doubt whether it could be repaired for the race, or if Audi could build a new car in time, which would start from the back of the field. Duval was in reasonable condition, considering the magnitude of the accident.Tom K can race if Audi continues

Formula E (2015-2017)

Duval made his Formula E debut at the 2015 Miami ePrix in March 2015, having missed the first four races of the inaugural 2014-15 Formula E season. He replaced

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and partnered

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, an American and former Indy team. Despite a slow start to his career, Duval achieved his first podium finish of the season with 3rd place at the 2015 Berlin ePrix with teammate d'Ambrosio winning the race resulting in Dragon Racing first double podium finish. Duval made second appearance to the podium at round two of the London ePrix in the season finale. Duval finished the season in 9th position with 42 points having raced in seven of the eleven championship rounds. Duval's contributions helped Dragon Racing finish 2nd in the Championship having spent the majority of the season outside the top five.

2015-16

Duval started the 2015–16 season off strongly having out qualified teammate d'Ambrosio in the opening two rounds. Duval finished fourth in Beijing, the first time he has outraced teammate d'Ambrosio. During the following round in Putrajaya, Duval crashed while fighting for a podium in the closing stages of the race. In Punta del Este, Duval qualified second on the front row alongside d'Ambrosio resulting in Dragon Racing's first front row lockout. He finished fourth, two tenths of a second behind his teammate in third.

Racing record

Career summary

^† Ineligible for championship points.
^‡ Team standings.

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

(

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) ^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete Formula Nippon/Super Formula results

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

Complete Super GT results

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

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

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Complete Formula E results

(

) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed more than 90% of the race distance.

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^† Driver did not finish, but was classified as he completed 75% of the race distance.

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results

^* Season still in progress.

Complete 24 Hours of Daytona results

Complete European Le Mans Series results

^† As Duval was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

References

External links

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