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Formula Palmer Audi
Vautier moved to the Formula Palmer Audi series in 2009, where he finished fourth with six victories.
FIA Formula Two Championship
Vautier made his FIA Formula Two Championship debut at Circuit de Catalunya
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, in place of Edoardo Piscopo
Edoardo Piscopo (born 4 February 1988) is an Italian racing driver.
Career
Formula BMW
After previously competing in karting, Piscopo began his single seater career in Formula BMW USA in 2005, where despite missing the first rounds he fini ...
. Vautier excelled in the pre-race tests and in the first race, where he finished third behind Andy Soucek and Mikhail Aleshin. He also finished in the points in the second race, finishing sixth. Those two results were enough to place him thirteenth overall in the championship standings.
Star Mazda
2010
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saw Vautier move to the American Star Mazda Championship driving for Andersen Racing. Vautier won the season-opener at Sebring Raceway and then in June at New Jersey Motorsports Park
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. However, several mechanical issues saw him achieve only fifth in the final standings despite being the only driver other than champion Conor Daly to win more than one race. He returned to the series in 2011, this time driving for JDC MotorSports. He won four races and finished every race in the top five, winning the championship over Connor De Phillippi by 25 points. With the title he won a scholarship to move to Firestone Indy Lights in 2012 through the Road to Indy program.
Indy Lights
Vautier signed with Sam Schmidt Motorsports to race in Firestone Indy Lights in 2012
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. He won the pole in his first race on the Streets of St. Petersburg and took a flag-to-flag victory, duplicating his Star Mazda feat from two years before by winning on debut. Another win on the Milwaukee Mile came in the midst of a remarkable run of 20 consecutive Top 5 finishes (including the final 2 Star Mazda events of 2010, and his championship season of 2011) in his Road to Indy career. The streak ended at Toronto
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when a first-lap collision put him out of the race for the first time in an open-wheel car in nearly two years.
Vautier clinched the 2012 Firestone Indy Lights championship by eight points over Esteban Guerrieri. Winning a partial scholarship to compete in the IndyCar Series
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in 2013 through the Road to Indy program.
IndyCar
Vautier signed to compete in the 2013 IndyCar Series season for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.Tristan Vautier makes the jump to IndyCar
''Autoweek'', 28 January 2013, Retrieved 29 January 2013 He is the first driver to be champion of two rungs of the Road to Indy ladder and move onto the IndyCar Series. Vautier finished 20th in points with a best finish of tenth in the second race of the season at Barber Motorsports Park. Vautier qualified in the Firestone Fast-Six on his debut race in St Petersburg, and 3rd for the following round in Barber. He won rookie of the year honours. He finished sixteenth in his first Indianapolis 500
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race.
The Frenchman returned to IndyCar in 2015 as a part-time driver for Dale Coyne Racing. He qualified James Davison's car for the Indianapolis 500, then raced in place of Carlos Huertas. A week later, he finished fourth in Detroit for the second race, starting last on the grid after qualifying was cancelled. His showing got Dale Coyne to keep him in the car for the remainder of the season, and he backed his strong Detroit result with a 6th place in Mid-Ohio.
Sports car racing
Vautier debuted Sports Car racing while still racing open wheels, in the 2009 French GT Championship, and won on his debut race in Nogaro, teaming-up with French driver Jean-Charles Levy.
In 2014, Vautier was hired by the Mazda
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In 2015, M ...
factory team to race at the four endurance races of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship in a LMP2 diesel prototype. At the 2015 24 Hours of Daytona he joined JDC/Miller, resulting third in the Prototype Challenge class.
The Frenchman has completed the 24 Hours of Spa four times for team Akka-ASP, in 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2017, finishing 2nd overall in 2016 on an AMG-Factory backed car alongside Rosenqvist and Van der Zande. He ended the 2016 season by winning the Blancpain GT Sprint final race in Barcelona, teamed-up with Rosenqvist.
He returned to full-time racing in the US in 2017 with Mercedes-AMG customer Team SunEnergy1 racing, teaming-up with Team owner Kenny Habul, and Boris Said. Vautier set Sebring's GTD track record on his way to pole position for the 12-Hour race, before finishing on the podium after a late comeback in the closing stages. He also returned to the Blanpain GT Series with Team Akka-ASP, teaming-up with Mercedes driver Dani Juncadella and open wheel ace Felix Serralles, closing the season by a win in Barcelona just as he did in 2016.
2017 also makes his return to IndyCar for a one-off, subbing for injured Sebastien Bourdais in Texas. Vautier went on to qualify 5th in the Dale Coyne Racing entry, and led 15 laps in the race before being caught in a multi-car incident.
In 2018, Vautier switched to prototypes, as he joined American Matt McMurry behind the wheel of the No. 90 Cadillac DPi-V.R. in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, driving for Spirit of Daytona Racing
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at four races, where he scored Pole Position for the 12 Hours of Sebring. At 2018 Petit Le Mans he finished fourth overall for Action Express Racing, partnering with Filipe Albuquerque and Christian Fittipaldi
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.
His GT Racing campaign for Mercedes-AMG saw him clinch the Intercontinental GT Challenge during the title-deciding race in WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
In 2019, Vautier joined JDC-Miller MotorSports to drive a Cadillac DPi at the IMSA WeatherTech Championship together with Mikhail Goikhberg
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Early career
Goikhberg's first foray into driving happened in 2003 at the Russia ...
, where he scored two 5th place finishes. The next season he had multiple co-drivers, but scored four top 5s.
Vautier won the 2021 12 Hours of Sebring The 2021 12 Hours of Sebring (formally known as the 69th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts) was an endurance sports car race held at Sebring International Raceway near Sebring, Florida from 17 to 20 March 2021. It wa ...
with JDC, together with Loïc Duval and Sébastien Bourdais.
Racing record
American open–wheel racing results
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Star Mazda Championship
Indy Lights
IndyCar Series
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Indianapolis 500
Complete Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup results
Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results
Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship
† Vautier did not complete sufficient laps in order to score full points.
* Season still in progress.
Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results
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Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results
References
External links
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1989 births
Living people
People from Saint-Martin-d'Hères
French racing drivers
Formule Campus Renault Elf drivers
French Formula Renault 2.0 drivers
Formula Renault Eurocup drivers
Formula Renault 2.0 WEC drivers
Formula Palmer Audi drivers
FIA Formula Two Championship drivers
Indy Pro 2000 Championship drivers
IndyCar Series drivers
Indianapolis 500 drivers
Indy Lights champions
Indy Lights drivers
24 Hours of Daytona drivers
Rolex Sports Car Series drivers
Blancpain Endurance Series drivers
WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers
24 Hours of Spa drivers
Sportspeople from Isère
12 Hours of Sebring drivers
24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
JDC Motorsports drivers
Arrow McLaren SP drivers
Dale Coyne Racing drivers
Mercedes-AMG Motorsport drivers
SG Formula drivers
Action Express Racing drivers
La Filière drivers
Strakka Racing drivers
Graff Racing drivers
FIA Motorsport Games drivers
Nürburgring 24 Hours drivers