Simon Pagenaud

Simon Pagenaud
Pagenaud at the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans driver parade
Nationality	French
Born	18 May 1984 Poitiers, France
IndyCar Series career
Debut season	2011
Current team	Team Penske
Car no.	1
Former teams	HVM Racing (2011) Dreyer & Reinbold Racing (2011) Schmidt Peterson Motorsports (2012–2014)
Starts	72
Wins	9
Podiums	19
Poles	9
Fastest laps	4
Best finish	1st in 2016
Previous series
2014–2015 2010–2011 2009–2011 2008–2011 2007 2006 2005 2002, 2004 2002–2003	United SportsCar Championship Intercontinental Le Mans Cup Le Mans Series American Le Mans Series Champ Car Atlantic Championship Formula Renault 3.5 Series Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup French Formula Renault
Championship titles
2016 2010 2006	IndyCar Series American Le Mans Series (LMP1) Atlantic Championship
Awards
2012	IndyCar Rookie of the Year
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2008–2011
Teams	Team Oreca-Matmut, Pescarolo Sport, Peugeot Sport
Best finish	2nd (2011)
Last updated on: 15 November 2015.

Simon Pagenaud (born 18 May 1984) is a French professional racing driver. He currently races in the IndyCar Series with Team Penske. He is the current 2016 IndyCar champion.^[1]

Career

Born in Poitiers, Pagenaud competed in 2002 and 2003 in French Formula Renault and in 2002 and 2004 competed in Formula Renault Eurocup. He then moved up to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series in 2005 where he finished 16th. In 2006 he went to the United States and won the Champ Car Atlantic with Team Australia in his rookie season by just a few points over Graham Rahal.

With his Atlantic championship, Pagenaud won US$2 million to apply towards a ride in Champ Car in 2007. On 13 February 2007 Pagenaud and Team Australia confirmed that he would be staying with the team, moving up to the Champ Car program. Pagenaud finished 8th in points in what was a very consistent debut season, with 3 consecutive 4th-place finishes in the Canadian rounds of the championship.

After the demise of the Champ Car World Series, Pagenaud in 2008 moved to the American Le Mans Series co-driving the De Ferran Motorsports Acura ARX-01b LMP2 with former CART champion Gil de Ferran. He finished 14th in the drivers standings.

2009

In 2009, Pagenaud and de Ferran Motorsports took huge steps forward, with the duo taking second place overall in the American Le Mans Series LMP1 class only 17 points behind drivers David Brabham and Scott Sharp of champions Highcroft Racing. The duo of Pagenaud and de Ferran drove the ARX-01 to 5 wins in 10 total races and 3 pole positions, turning the fastest lap of the ALMS weekend 6 times.

Also during 2009, Pagenaud drove in the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans in LMP1 for the privateer Pescarolo Sport team in the Peugeot FAP 908. The team did not finish the race, completing 210 laps. The race was won by David Brabham, driving in the factory Peugeot Sport Total No. 9 FAP 908 along with former Formula One drivers Alexander Wurz and Marc Gené.

2010

For the 2010 ALMS season, Pagenaud moved over to the Patrón Highcroft racing team, replacing Scott Sharp to co-drive with Brabham in the ARX-01c in LMP1 after Sharp vacated the seat to jump to the ALMS GT2 class with his own Ferrari team. Through four rounds in the 2010 ALMS series, the team of Pagenaud and Brabham lead the LMP1 class with three wins and 91 points.

Pagenaud also earned a seat driving for the 2010 factory French Peugeot team in the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans on the renown Circuit de la Sarthe in the Peugeot FAP 908 No. 3 with Pedro Lamy and Sébastien Bourdais.

While the No. 3 Peugeot started from pole, it retired early before nightfall after a mere 38 laps when a suspension mount sheared from the car's tub. The same fate eventually befell the no.1 Peugeot car of Anthony Davidson/Gene/Wurz while in second place with mere hours left to go in the race, as Audi reclaimed the 24 Hours of Le Mans title it had retained for five years prior to Peugeot's 2009 win.

During the race, Pagenaud found himself competing against his Highcroft Racing team which travelled to Le Mans for the first time in its history. With Brabham driving the Acura in LMP2 alongside Marino Franchitti and Marco Werner, Highcroft maintained second through most of the race until a cooling issue sidelined the car for much of the race's final four hours.

2014

Pagenaud during practice at the 2015 GoPro Grand Prix of Sonoma

He won the inaugural Grand Prix of Indianapolis on 10 May. This was the first time his dad was watching him race at the venue.

2015

Pagenaud moved from Schmidt Peterson Motorsports to Team Penske in 2015.^[2] Pagenaud nearly won the 2015 Indianapolis 500, leading with less than 30 laps to go and engaging most of the race in a 3-way battle between Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan. Pagenaud ended up being over-taken by the field and went on to finish 10th, while teammate Juan Pablo Montoya won the race. Pagenaud didn't win a race in 2015, but renewed his deal with TEAM Penske in 2016.

2016

Pagenaud got off to the best start of his IndyCar career with five consecutive podiums, including three wins in a row. As the season progressed, Pagenaud and his teammate Will Power became the primary contenders for the championship. With a strong run at the end of the season, Pagenaud took his first IndyCar Series championship victory, giving Team Penske another championship victory in its 50th year of racing. He finished the season with five race victories and a total of eight podiums.

Motorsports career results

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Wins	Poles	FLaps	Points	Final Placing
2001	Formula Campus by Renault and Elf	Filière FFSA	17	4	6	?	209	2nd
2002	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup	ASM	1	0	0	0	4	25th
	Championnat de France FFSA de Formule Renault		8	1	2	2	93	3rd
2003	Formula Renault 2000 Masters	ASM	8	1	0	1	86	3rd
	Formula Renault 2000 Germany		2	0	0	0	0	NC
	Championnat de France Formule Renault 2000		10	0	1	1	114	6th
2004	Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup	Graff Racing	17	2	2	2	246	2nd
	Championnat de France Formula Renault 2.0		6	3	0	4	142	6th
2005	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	Saulnier Racing	16	0	0	0	30	16th
	Championnat de France Formula Renault 2.0	Tech 1 Racing	2	0	0	0	0	NC
2006	Champ Car Atlantic	Team Australia	12	1	1	1	258	1st
2007	Champ Car World Series	Team Australia	14	0	0	1	232	8th
2008	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMP1	Team Oreca-Matmut	1	0	0	0	N/A	NC
	American Le Mans Series – LMP2	De Ferran Motorsports	8	0	0	1	85	9th
2009	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMP1	Pescarolo Sport	1	0	0	0	N/A	NC
	American Le Mans Series – LMP1	De Ferran Motorsports	10	5	3	5	162	2nd
	Le Mans Series – LMP1	Team Peugeot Total	1	1	1	1	11	19th
2010	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMP1	Team Peugeot Total	1	0	0	0	N/A	NC
	Le Mans Series – LMP1		1	1	0	0	18	21st
	Intercontinental Le Mans Cup – LMP1		1	0	0	0	N/A
	American Le Mans Series – LMP/LMP2	Highcroft Racing	9	4	1	4	182	1st
2011	IndyCar Series	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	3	0	0	0	56	31st
		HVM Racing
	American Le Mans Series – LMP1	Team Peugeot Total	2	0	0	0	0	NC
		Highcroft Racing
	24 Hours of Le Mans – LMP1	Team Peugeot Total	1	0	0	0	N/A	2nd
	Le Mans Series – LMP1		2	1	1	1	0	NC
	Intercontinental Le Mans Cup – LMP1	Highcroft Racing	5	1	1	1	N/A
		Team Peugeot Total
	International V8 Supercar Championship	Garry Rogers Motorsport	2	0	0	0	207	49th
	Pacific Formula F Super Series	PR1 Motorsports	2	2	1	2	66	2nd
	Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge – ST	Compass 360 Racing	1	0	0	0	25	65th
2012	IndyCar Series	Sam Schmidt Motorsports	15	0	0	0	387	5th
	American Le Mans Series – LMP1	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	1	0	0	0	20	8th
	International V8 Supercar Championship	Stone Brothers Racing	2	0	0	0	0	NC
2013	IndyCar Series	Schmidt Peterson Hamilton HP Motorsports	19	2	0	1	508	3rd
	American Le Mans Series – LMP2	Level 5 Motorsports	2	1	0	1	40	8th
	Rolex Sports Car Series – DP	Team Sahlen	1	0	0	0	22	59th
2014	IndyCar Series	Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Motorsports	18	2	1	3	565	5th
	United SportsCar Championship – Prototype	Extreme Speed Motorsports	2	0	0	0	52	32nd
2015	IndyCar Series	Team Penske	16	0	1	0	384	11th
	United SportsCar Championship – GTLM	Corvette Racing	2	0	0	0	54	18th
2015–16	Andros Trophy - Électrique Class	ERDF	2	0	0	0	44	13th
2016	IndyCar Series	Team Penske	16	5	7	0	659	1st

Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(key)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	DC	Points
2005	Saulnier Racing	ZOL 1 8	ZOL 2 4	MON 1 10	VAL 1 5	VAL 2 11	LMS 1 10	LMS 2 Ret	BIL 1 11	BIL 2 12	OSC 1 Ret	OSC 2 DNS	DON 1 8	DON 2 5	EST 1 9	EST 2 11	MNZ 1 11	MNZ 2 12	16th	30

American open–wheel racing results

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

Champ Car Atlantic

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2006	Team Australia	LBH 4	HOU 2	MTY 2	POR 23	CLE1 2	CLE2 5	TOR 4	EDM 1	SJO 9	DEN 3	MTL 2	ROA 17	1st	258

Champ Car

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2007	Team Australia	LVG 12	LBH 14	HOU 5	POR 8	CLE 5	MTT 4	TOR 4	EDM 4	SJO 10	ROA 11	ZOL 12	ASN 6	SRF 5	MXC 6	8th	232

IndyCar Series

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Rank	Points
2011	Dreyer & Reinbold Racing	Dallara IR-05	Honda HI7R V8	STP	ALA 8	LBH	SAO	INDY	TXS	TXS	MIL	IOW	TOR	EDM	MDO 13	NHM							31st	56
	HVM Racing																SNM 15	BAL	MOT	KTY	LVS
2012	Schmidt–Hamilton Motorsports	Dallara DW12	Honda HI12TT V6 t	STP 6	ALA 5	LBH 2	SAO 12	INDY 16	DET 3	TXS 6	MIL 12	IOW 5	TOR 12	EDM 20	MDO 3	SNM 7	BAL 3	FON 15					5th	387
2013	Schmidt Peterson Hamilton HP Motorsports		Honda HI13TT V6 t	STP 24	ALA 6	LBH 8	SAO 9	INDY 8	DET 12	DET 1	TXS 13	MIL 12	IOW 6	POC 6	TOR 9	TOR 12	MDO 2	SNM 5	BAL 1	HOU 4	HOU 6	FON 13	3rd	508
2014	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports		Honda HI14TT V6 t	STP 5	LBH 5	ALA 4	IMS 1	INDY 12	DET 22	DET 6	TXS 4	HOU 16	HOU 1	POC 6	IOW 11	TOR 4	TOR 22	MDO 9	MIL 7	SNM 3	FON 20		5th	565
2015	Team Penske		Chevrolet IndyCar V6 t	STP 5	NLA 20	LBH 4	ALA 9	IMS 25	INDY 10	DET 3	DET 14	TXS 11	TOR 11	FON 9	MIL 9	IOW 14	MDO 3	POC 7	SNM 16				11th	384
2016				STP 2	PHX 2	LBH 1	ALA 1	IMS 1	INDY 19	DET 13	DET 2	RDA 13	IOW 4	TOR 9	MDO 1	POC 18	TXS 4	WGL 7	SNM 1				1st	659

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Top 5s	Top 10s	Championships
5	4	75	4	8	24	45	1

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2012	Dallara	Honda	23	16	Schmidt–Hamilton Motorsports
2013	Dallara	Honda	21	8	Schmidt Peterson Hamilton HP Motorsports
2014	Dallara	Honda	5	12	Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Motorsports
2015	Dallara	Chevrolet	3	10	Team Penske
2016	Dallara	Chevrolet	8	19	Team Penske

Sports car racing

Le Mans 24 Hours results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2008	Team Oreca-Matmut	Marcel Fässler Olivier Panis	Courage-Oreca LC70-Judd	LMP1	147	DNF	DNF
2009	Pescarolo Sport	Jean-Christophe Boullion Benoît Tréluyer	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	LMP1	210	DNF	DNF
2010	Team Peugeot Total	Sébastien Bourdais Pedro Lamy	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	LMP1	38	DNF	DNF
2011	Team Peugeot Total	Sébastien Bourdais Pedro Lamy	Peugeot 908	LMP1	355	2nd	2nd

American Le Mans Series results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Rank	Points
2008	De Ferran Motorsports	LMP2	Acura ARX-01b	Acura 3.4L V8	M	SEB	STP	LNB	UTA 3	LIM ovr:14 cls:7	MID Ret	AME ovr:18 cls:8	MOS ovr:7 cls:5	DET 3	PET ovr:8 cls:5	MON ovr:4 cls:2	9th	85
2009	De Ferran Motorsports	LMP1	Acura ARX-02a	Acura 4.0L V8	M	SEB Ret	STP Ret	LNB 1	UTA 1	LIM 1	MID 1	AME 2	MOS 2	PET ovr:24 cls:7	MON 1		2nd	162
2010	Highcroft Racing	LMP2	HPD ARX-01C	HPD 3.4L V8	M	SEB ovr:5 cls:2								PET ovr:4 cls:1			1st	182
		LMP					LNB 1	MON 1	UTA 1	LIM 2	MID 2	AME 3	MOS 2
2011	Highcroft Racing	LMP1	HPD ARX-01e	HPD 3.4L V8	M	SEB 2	LNB	LIM	MOS	MID	AME	BAL	MON				NC	0
	Peugeot Sport Total		Peugeot 908	Peugeot HDI 3.7 L Turbo V8 (Diesel)										PET^1 ovr:48 cls:11
2012	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	P1	HPD ARX-03a	Honda 3.4 L V8	M	SEB ovr:28 cls:2	LNB	MON	LIM	MOS	MDO	AME	BAL	VIR	PET		8th	20
2013	Level 5 Motorsports	P2	HPD ARX-03b	Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6	M	SEB ovr:7 cls:2	LNB	MON	LIM	MOS	AME	BAL	COTA	VIR	PET		6th	20

¹ Driver competed for the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, no points awarded for the American Le Mans Series.

United SportsCar Championship results

(key)(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Year	Team	Make	Engine	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Rank	Points
2014	Extreme Speed Motorsports	HPD ARX-03b	Honda HR28TT 2.8 L V6 Turbo	P	DAY 11	SIR 5	LBH	LS	DET	KAN	S6H	MSP	IMS	ELK	VIR	COA	PET	32nd	52
2015	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet Corvette C7.R	Chevrolet 5.5 L V8	GTLM	DAY ovr:7 cls:3	SIR ovr:32 cls:9	LBH	LS	DET	S6H	MSP	LRP	ELK	VIR	COA	PET		18th	54
2016	Action Express Racing	Coyote Corvette DP	Chevrolet 5.5L V8	P	DAY 6	SIR	LBH	LS	DET	S6H	MSP	LRP	ELK	VIR	COA	PET		6th	26

Le Mans Series results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	1	2	3	4	5	Rank	Points
2009	Team Peugeot Total	LMP1	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Peugeot HDI 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	M	CAT	SPA 1	ALG	NÜR	SIL	19th	11
2010	Team Peugeot Total	LMP1	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Peugeot HDI 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	M	CAS	SPA 1	ALG	HUN	SIL	21st	18
2011	Peugeot Sport Total	LMP1	Peugeot 908	Peugeot HDI 3.7 L Turbo V8 (Diesel)	M	CAS	SPA 8	IMO	SIL^1 1	EST	NC	0

¹ Driver competed for the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, no points awarded for the Le Mans Series.

Intercontinental Le Mans Cup results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
2010	Team Peugeot Total	LMP1	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Peugeot HDI 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	M	SIL	PET^1 ovr:4 cls:1	ZHU 4
2011	Highcroft Racing	LMP1	HPD ARX-01e	HPD 3.4L V8	M	SEB^1 2
	Peugeot Sport Total		Peugeot 908	Peugeot HDI 3.7 L Turbo V8 (Diesel)			SPA^1 8	LEM^1 2	IMO	SIL 1	PET ovr:48 cls:11	ZHU

¹ Driver did not run for the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.

Touring car racing

Complete V8 Supercar results

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	Final Pos	Points
2011	Garry Rogers Motorsport	YMC R1	YMC R2	ADE R3	ADE R4	HAM R5	HAM R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	WIN R10	WIN R11	HID R12	HID R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	QLD R18	PHI Q	PHI R19	BAT R20	SUR R21 10	SUR R22 3	SYM R23	SYM R24	SAN R25	SAN R26	SYD R27	SYD R28			49th	207
2012	Stone Brothers Racing	ADE R1	ADE R2	SYM R3	SYM R4	HAM R5	HAM R6	BAR R7	BAR R8	BAR R9	PHI R10	PHI R11	HID R12	HID R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	SMP R18	SMP R19	SAN Q	SAN R20	BAT R21	SUR R22 Ret	SUR R23 8	YMC R24	YMC R25	YMC R26	WIN R27	WIN R28	SYD R29	SYD R30	NC	0 +

+ Not Eligible for points

References

1. Clash, Jim. "Breakfast With Simon Pagenaud, Newly Crowned 2016 Verizon IndyCar Champ". Retrieved 2016-09-23.
2. DiZinno, Tony (29 September 2014). "Simon Pagenaud confirmed at Team Penske in fourth IndyCar". NBC Sports. Retrieved 7 October 2014.

External links

• Official website
• IndyCar Driver Page
• Simon Pagenaud career statistics at Driver Database
• Simon Pagenaud career statistics at Racing Reference
• IndyCar 36: Simon Pagenaud – IndyCar documentary
• Simon Pagenaud on Twitter