Pierre René Gilbert Ragues (born 10 January 1984 in Caen) is a French racing driver.

A veteran of the LMP2 class, Ragues competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship and was 2013 European Le Mans Series champion for Signatech Alpine. He later switched to rallying, winning the FIA R-GT Cup in 2021. Since 2026, he presides the French Federation of Automobile Sport (FFSA).

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, he 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. In 2007 he also won the Euro F3000 Sprint race with the Autosport Team.

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 (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 DC Points 2005 Epsilon Sport ZOL1 ZOL2 VAL1 VAL2 LMS1 LMS2 BIL1 BIL2 OSC1 OSC2 DON1 DON2 EST1 EST2 MNZ1 MNZ2 31st 2

Complete Le Mans Series/European Le Mans Series results

Year Entrant Class Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 56 Rank Points 2006 Paul Belmondo Racing LMP2 Courage C65 Ford (Mecachrome) 3.4L V8 IST SPA NÜR DON JAR 15th 12 2008 Saulnier Racing LMP2 Pescarolo 01 Judd DB 3.4 L V8 CAT MON SPA NÜR SIL 8th 21 2009 Signature Plus LMP2 Courage-Oreca LC70E Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5 L V10 CAT SPA ALG NUR SIL 10th 14 2010 Signature Plus LMP1 Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 Aston Martin AM04 6.0 L V12 CAS SPA ALG HUN SIL 4th 57 2011 OAK Racing LMP1 OAK Pescarolo 01 Judd DB 3.4 L V8 CAS SPA IMO SIL EST NC 0 2013 Signatech Alpine LMP2 Alpine A450 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 SIL IMO RBR HUN LEC 1st 85 2014 Newblood by Morand Racing LMP2 Morgan LMP2 Judd HK 3.6 L V8 SIL IMO RBR LEC EST 6th 53 2018 Duqueine Engineering LMP2 Oreca 07 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 LEC MNZ RBR SIL SPA ALG 11th 35 2019 Duqueine Engineering LMP2 Oreca 07 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 LEC MNZ CAT SIL SPA ALG 9th 45 2021 AF Corse LMGTE Ferrari 488 GTE Evo Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8 CAT RBR LEC MNZ SPA ALG 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 Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 2006 Paul Belmondo Racing Claude-Yves Gosselin Karim Ojjeh Courage C65-Ford LMP2 84 DNF DNF 2008 Saulnier Racing Cheng Congfu Matthieu Lahaye Pescarolo 01-Judd LMP2 333 18th 3rd 2009 Signature-Plus Franck Mailleux Didier André Courage-Oreca LC70E-Judd LMP1 344 11th 10th 2010 Signature-Plus Franck Mailleux Vanina Ickx Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 LMP1 302 DNF DNF 2011 OAK Racing Guillaume Moreau Tiago Monteiro OAK Pescarolo 01 Evo-Judd LMP1 80 DNF DNF 2012 Signatech-Nissan Nelson Panciatici Roman Rusinov Oreca 03-Nissan LMP2 351 10th 4th 2013 Signatech-Alpine Nelson Panciatici Tristan Gommendy Alpine A450-Nissan LMP2 317 14th 8th 2014 Larbre Compétition Keiko Ihara Ricky Taylor Morgan LMP2-Judd LMP2 341 14th 9th 2015 Team SARD-Morand Oliver Webb Zoël Amberg Morgan LMP2 Evo-SARD LMP2 162 DNF DNF 2016 Larbre Compétition Jean-Philippe Belloc Yutaka Yamagishi Chevrolet Corvette C7.R GTEAm 316 37th 8th 2017 Signatech Alpine Matmut Nelson Panciatici André Negrão Alpine A470-Gibson LMP2 362 4th 3rd 2019 Duqueine Engineering Nico Jamin Romain Dumas Oreca 07-Gibson LMP2 363 12th 7th 2020 Signatech Alpine Elf André Negrão Thomas Laurent Alpine A470-Gibson LMP2 367 8th 4th

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results Year Entrant Class Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Rank Points 2012 Signatech-Nissan LMP2 Oreca 03 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 SEB SPA LMS SIL SÃO BHR FUJ SHA 6th† 60† 2013 Signatech-Alpine LMP2 Alpine A450 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 SIL SPA LMS SÃO COA FUJ SHA BHR NC 0 2014 Larbre Compétition LMP2 Morgan LMP2 Judd HK 3.6 L V8 SIL SPA LMS COA FUJ SHA BHR SÃO NC 0 2015 Team SARD Morand LMP2 Morgan LMP2 Evo SARD (Judd) 3.6 L V8 SIL SPA LMS NÜR COA FUJ SHA BHR 5th* 18* 2019–20 Signatech Alpine Elf LMP2 Alpine A470 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 SIL FUJ SHA BHR COA SPA LMS BHR 8th 109 * Season still in progress. † There was no drivers championship that year, the result indicates rank in the LMP2 Trophy.

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