Loïc Duval

Loïc Duval Duval in 2009. Nationality French Born (1982-06-12) 12 June 1982 Chartres, France World Endurance Championship career Debut season 2012 Current team Audi Sport Team Joest Car no. 8 Starts 36 Wins 6 Poles 5 Fastest laps 0 Best finish 1st in 2012 Previous series 2014–15 2009 2008, 2010 2006–07–2008–09 2006–12 2006–10, 2012–14 2004–05 2003 2002 Formula E Asian Le Mans Series Le Mans Series A1 Grand Prix Super GT Formula Nippon Formula 3 Euro Series Formula Renault 2000 France Formula Campus France Championship titles 2013 2009 2003 2002 World Endurance Championship Formula Nippon Formula Renault 2000 France Formula Campus France 24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 2008, 2010–2013, 2015- Teams Team Oreca-Matmut Audi Sport Team Joest Best finish 1st (2013) Class wins 1 (2013) Formula E career Debut season 2014–15 Current team Dragon Racing Car no. 6 Starts 19 Wins 0 Poles 0 Fastest laps 1 Best finish 8th in 2015–16 Finished last season 8th (2015–16)

Loïc Duval (Pronounced: ⁱ/loʊˈiːk duːˈvæl/ LOH-eek DOO-val, born 12 June 1982) is a French professional racing driver. He is noted for being on the winning team of the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans. He is currently competing in Formula E driving for Dragon Racing.

Career

Duval during free practice at the first Motegi round of the 2010 Formula Nippon season.

Born in Chartres, Duval began his career in karting 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 Formula 3 Euro Series and tested for Renault F1. The next year he finished sixth in F3 Euro Series and won a pole at the Macau Grand Prix. He then moved to Japan where he began racing in Formula Nippon and Super GT. In 2007 he continued in Formula Nippon and made two starts for A1 Team France in the A1 Grand Prix 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Formula E (2015-Present)

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 Oriol Servià and partnered Jerome d'Ambrosio at Dragon Racing, 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 team mate d'Ambrosio in the opening two rounds. Duval finished fourth in Beijing, the first time he's 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 team mate in third.

Racing record

Career summary

^* Season still in progress.
† Ineligible for championship points.
‡ Team standings.

Complete Formula 3 Euro Series results

(key)

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

Complete Formula Nippon/Super Formula results

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

Complete Super GT results

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

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

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2008	Team Oreca-Matmut	Soheil Ayari Laurent Groppi	Courage-Oreca LC70-Judd	LMP1	357	8th	8th
2010	Team Oreca-Matmut	Olivier Panis Nicolas Lapierre	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	LMP1	373	DNF	DNF
2011	Team Oreca-Matmut	Nicolas Lapierre Olivier Panis	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	LMP1	339	5th	5th
2012	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marc Gené Romain Dumas	Audi R18 ultra	LMP1	366	5th	5th
2013	Audi Sport Team Joest	Allan McNish Tom Kristensen	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	348	1st	1st
2015	Audi Sport Team Joest	Lucas di Grassi Oliver Jarvis	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	LMP1	392	4th	4th
2016	Audi Sport Team Joest	Lucas di Grassi Oliver Jarvis	Audi R18	LMP1	372	3rd	3rd

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Complete Formula E results

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

^* Season still in progress. ^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed more than 90% of the race distance.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Loïc Duval.

• Official website
• Loïc Duval career summary at DriverDB.com

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