Pierre Ragues (born 10 January 1984 in

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Career

Karting

Debuting in karting in 1994, Ragues was second in the Monaco Kart Cup in Formula A in 2001, and third in the French Elite Championship. Since starting to race cars, Ragues has continued to compete in karts.

Single-seaters

Ragues started racing cars in 2003 when he took part in Formula Renault Campus in France, finishing runner-up to dominant champion Laurent Groppi and scoring one race win. He also took part in the

2003 Spa 24 Hours The 2003 Proximus 24 Spa was the 56th running of the Spa 24 Hours and the sixth round the 2003 FIA GT Championship. This event combined the FIA GT's two classes (GT and N-GT) with cars from national series and one-make series, designated G2 and G ...

in a

Paul Belmondo Paul Alexandre Belmondo (born 23 April 1963) is a French racing driver who raced in Formula One for the March and Pacific Racing teams. He was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, the son of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and grandson of scul ...

Racing-run

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. For the following years he raced in

French Formula Renault The Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup (WEC) was a Formula Renault 2.0 championship that replaced the Championnat de France Formula Renault 2.0 as of 2008,International Formula Master International Formula Master, also known as Formula Super 2000, was a European-based junior single seater formula. The series was conceived as a competitor for Formula Three and made its debut at Valencia in 2007. European television channel Euros ...

in 2007, finishing 14th overall with one podium finish.

Sportscars

In 2006 Ragues started in

sports car racing Sports car racing is a form of motorsport road racing which utilises sports cars that have two seats and enclosed wheels. They may be purpose-built prototypes or grand tourers based on road-going models. Broadly speaking, sports car racing is ...

, contesting the

LMP2 A Le Mans Prototype (LMP) is the type of sports prototype race car used in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, FIA World Endurance Championship, IMSA SportsCar Championship, European Le Mans Series and Asian Le Mans Series. Le Mans Prototypes were crea ...

class of the

Le Mans Series The European Le Mans Series (abbreviated as ELMS) is a European sports car racing endurance series inspired by the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and organized by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). The European Le Mans Series is similar to the fo ...

and

24 Hours of Le Mans The 24 Hours of Le Mans (french: link=no, 24 Heures du Mans) is an endurance-focused Sports car racing, sports car race held annually near the town of Le Mans, France. It is the world's oldest active Endurance racing (motorsport), endurance r ...

for Paul Belmondo Racing. After his brief return to single-seaters, in 2008 he raced for

Saulnier Racing OAK Racing is an endurance racing team specialising in sports prototypes based in Le Mans, France. In 2013 it won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in LMP2 class and the 2013 FIA WEC World Champion drivers and teams on LMP2 class. In 2012 the team con ...

and finished fifth in the Le Mans Series LMP2 drivers' standings and third in class at Le Mans. 2009 saw him start his relationship with the

Signature A signature (; from la, signare, "to sign") is a handwritten (and often stylized) depiction of someone's name, nickname, or even a simple "X" or other mark that a person writes on documents as a proof of identity and intent. The writer of a ...

team. They finished 11th overall and tenth in LMP1 at the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans and seventh in the

. Signature switched to a

Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 The Lola-Aston Martin B09/60, also known as the Aston Martin DBR1-2, is a Le Mans Prototype sports car built by Lola Cars International and co-developed with Prodrive for use by Aston Martin Racing. It is the first prototype to bear the Aston ...

for 2010, and the team finished second in the LMS teams' championship with their drivers in fourth place. In 2011 Ragues switched back to the Saulnier team, now operating as OAK Racing, before returning to Signature in 2012, now racing as Signatech-Nissan. He finished tenth overall and fourth in LMP2 at the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Racing record

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

* Season still in progress.
† There was no drivers championship that year, the result indicates rank in the LMP2 Trophy.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ragues, Pierre 1984 births Living people Sportspeople from Caen French racing drivers FIA GT Championship drivers European Le Mans Series drivers American Le Mans Series drivers 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers French Formula Renault 2.0 drivers French F4 Championship drivers International Formula Master drivers FIA World Endurance Championship drivers World Rally Championship drivers Karting World Championship drivers Signature Team drivers OAK Racing drivers Larbre Compétition drivers Morand Racing drivers Euronova Racing drivers AF Corse drivers