Alexandre Cougnaud

Alexandre Cougnaud (born 5 December 1991) is a French racing driver. who currently competes in the European Le Mans Series with Graff Racing.[1]

Alexandre Cougnaud
NationalityFrench
Born (1991-12-05) 5 December 1991
Les Sables-d'Olonne (France)
European F3 Open Championship career
Debut season2012
Current teamRP Motorsport
Car number18
Former teamsTop F3
Starts106
Wins3
Podiums18
Poles3
Fastest laps3
Best finish1st in 2013
Previous series
2011
2010
2009		Formula Renault 2.0 Alps
Formula Renault 2.0 MEC
Formul'Academy Euro Series

Career

Early career

Cougnaud, born in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, began karting in 2002 and raced primarily in his native France country. Having finished sixth in the Formula Kart France series in 2008, he entered the Formul'Academy Euro Series the following year, driving for Signatech; he finished 14th in the championship, with eight points.[1]
In 2010, he entered four rounds of the Formula Renault 2.0 Suisse for ARTA Engineering; he took a single podium, and finished ninth in the championship, with 57 points.[1]
In 2011, he entered a single round of the Championnat VdeV with AB Sport Auto, in addition to fourteen rounds of the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps with ARTA Engineering, and three races of the Formula Ford EuroCup with Cliff Dempsey Racing; he was classified tenth in the Championnat VdeV, and 17th in the Formula Renault Alps.[1]

European F3 Open

In 2012, Cougnaud decided to race in "Copa/Cup Class" of the European F3 Open Championship for the Dallara F308 cars with Top F3 French team. He had a successful season, finishing 3rd in the overall classification of the Cup class with eight podiums.

In 2013, Cougnaud joined the Italian team RP Motorsport to drive a Dallara F312 car.[2] He and Santiago Urrutia were originally the two drivers chosen to drive a F312 car for Fabio Pampado's team;[3] and they have been joined by Alexander Toril [4] and Sandy Stuvik to compete in the European F3 Open with a Dallara Formula 3 F312 as well.

Cougnaud at Jerez driving for RP Motorsport, his first podium of the 2013 season (F3).
Cougnaud at Spa getting out of the box for Q2 session (F3).

Cougnaud had some difficulties with the set-up of his car at the beginning of the season, especially in bad weather conditions and he also incurred several penalties, like at Silverstone, where he finished fifth in the second race but got a 30-second penalty after the race, so fifth place was for Stern.[5]

He had a good result at Jerez where he finished fourth in the first race, and third in the second one.

At Monza, in October, he did his best performance of the season in the second race : pole position, P2 and fastest lap. He could not resist to his teammate Sandy Stuvik in the last lap.[6]

Cougnaud had a great finish of the season at Barcelona finishing in third position for the first race and winning the second one (his first victory in Formula 3).[7]

Porsche Carrera Cup France

In both 2014 and 2015 Alexandre Cougnaud raced in the Porsche Carrera Cup France championship. He finished in 10th position the first year and in 12th position the second year.

European Le Mans Series

In 2016, Alexandre joined the famous European Le Mans Series (ELMS), a European sports car racing endurance series inspired by the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and run by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). For his first year in ELMS, Alexandre won two races for the Yvan Muller Racing team. The first one being the prestigious Road To Le Mans race and the second one, the last leg of the 2016 championship in Estoril.

In 2017, Alexandre extended his contract with the Yvan Muller racing team for one year. After two legs he is in second position of the LMP3 classification with one podium (2nd position) in Monza.

Career summary
Season Championship Team Starts Wins Pole Positions Fastest laps Podiums Points Position
2009 Formul'Academy Euro Series Auto Sport Academy 14 0 0 0 0 8 14
2010 Formule Renault 2.0 Suisse Arta Engineering 4 0 0 0 1 57 9
2011 Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Arta Engineering 14 0 0 0 0 79 15
Coupe d'Europe de Formule Ford Cliff Dempsey Racing 3 0 0 0 0 0 NC
Championnat VdeV - Challenge Endurance Proto AB Sport Auto 1 0 0 0 0 8 10
2012 European F3 Open Top F3 16 0 0 0 0 14 15
European F3 Open (cat. Copa)† 0 1 2 8 70 3rd
European F3 Open Winter Series 2 0 0 0 0 0 NC
2013 European F3 Open Winter Series RP Motorsport 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC
European F3 Open 16 1 1 1 4 139 6
2014 Porsche Carrera Cup France Racing Technology 12 0 0 0 1 59 12
2015 Porsche Carrera Cup France Vendée Auto Sport 12 0 0 0 1 83 10
2016 European Le Mans Series Yvan Muller Racing 6 1 0 0 1 36 8
Road To Le Mans DC Racing 1 1 0 0 1 NA 1st
Gulf 12 Hours Graff 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 (PROTO)
2017 European Le Mans Series Yvan Muller Racing 2 0 0 1 1 28 2

References
  1. "Alexandre Cougnaud career statistics". Driver Database. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  2. "RP Motorsport 2013 F3 drivers". Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  3. "RP Motorsport confirms its driver line-up for 2013". Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  4. "Finally Alex Toril with a RP´s Dallara F312 car". Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  5. "F3 Open: Urrutia Leads RP Motorsport One-Two at Silverstone". Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  6. "Sandy Stuvik wins Monza Formula 3 test". Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  7. "Ed Jones crowned as new F3 Open champion". Retrieved 10 November 2013.
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