Pierre Ragues


Pierre René Gilbert Ragues is a French racing driver, who competes in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

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 in a Paul Belmondo Racing-run Chrysler Viper GTS-R. For the following years, he raced in French Formula Renault, finishing 12th and 15th overall in the two seasons.
After racing sportscars in 2006, Ragues took part in International Formula Master in 2007, finishing 14th overall with one podium finish.

Sportscars

In 2006, Ragues started in sports car racing, contesting the LMP2 class of the Le Mans Series and 24 Hours of Le Mans for Paul Belmondo Racing. After his brief return to single-seaters, in 2008, he raced for Saulnier Racing and finished fifth in the Le Mans Series LMP2 drivers' standings and third in class at Le Mans.
2009 saw Ragues start his relationship with the Signature team. They finished 11th overall and tenth in LMP1 at the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans and seventh in the Le Mans Series. Signature switched to a Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 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 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 results

YearEntrant12345678910111213141516DCPoints
2005Epsilon SportZOL
1
ZOL
2
VAL
1
Ret
VAL
2
22
LMS
1
Ret
LMS
2
9
BIL
1
BIL
2
OSC
1
11
OSC
2
24
DON
1
DON
2
EST
1
33
EST
2
17
MNZ
1
MNZ
2
31st2

Complete Le Mans Series/European Le Mans Series results

YearEntrantClassChassisEngine123456RankPoints
2006Paul Belmondo RacingLMP2Courage C65Ford 3.4L V8IST
5
SPA
5
NÜR
Ret
DON
Ret
JAR
5
15th12
2008Saulnier RacingLMP2Pescarolo 01Judd DB 3.4 L V8CAT
5
MON
5
SPA
4
NÜR
2
SIL
9
8th21
2009 Signature PlusLMP2Courage-Oreca LC70EJudd GV5.5 S2 5.5 L V10CAT
4
SPA
9
ALG
6
NUR
5
SIL
7
10th14
2010Signature PlusLMP1Lola-Aston Martin B09/60Aston Martin AM04 6.0 L V12CAS
6
SPA
8
ALG
3
HUN
3
SIL
6
4th57
2011OAK RacingLMP1OAK Pescarolo 01Judd DB 3.4 L V8CASSPA
Ret
IMO
8
SIL
5
ESTNC0
2013Signatech AlpineLMP2Alpine A450Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8SIL
4
IMO
2
RBR
2
HUN
1
LEC
4
1st85
2014Newblood by Morand RacingLMP2Morgan LMP2Judd HK 3.6 L V8SILIMORBR
5
LEC
1
EST
2
6th53
2018Duqueine EngineeringLMP2Oreca 07Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8LEC
3
MNZ
6
RBR
DSQ
SIL
7
SPA
5‡
ALG
Ret
11th35
2019Duqueine EngineeringLMP2Oreca 07Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8LEC
3
MNZ
6
CAT
4
SIL
Ret
SPA
5
ALG
Ret
9th45
2021AF CorseLMGTEFerrari 488 GTE EvoFerrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8CATRBRLECMNZSPAALG
9
NC†0

Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
As Ragues was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

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.