Romain Dumas
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Biography
Romain Dumas (born 14 December 1977) is a French professional auto racing driver. He has been a Audi and Porsche factory driver in sports car racing, having claimed overall wins at the 2010 and 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans, the 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011 24 Hours of Nürburgring, the 2003 and 2010 24 Hours of Spa, and the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring. Also, he won the 2014 and 2016 Pikes Peak International Hill Climb.
Biography
Born in Alès, Dumas started karting in 1992, in 1996 he competed in the French Formula Renault Championship. In 1998, he joined the French Formula 3 Championship.
He tested a Formula 3000 car for Oreca in 1999 and a Renault F1 in 2002. In 2004 he tested a Conquest Racing Champ Car, but he never raced in any of these formulas.
In 2001 and 2002 he competed in Euro Formula 3000.
Since 2001 he has participated in every 24 Hours of Le Mans race and since 2004 he has competed in American Le Mans Series. He is currently a Porsche factory driver for Penske Racing, and also driven in the FIA GT Championship.
In 2007 he won first overall in the 24 Hours Nürburgring, 1st American Le Mans Series (LMP2 Class — Penske Porsche RS Spyder with 8 wins, 4 pole positions), 3rd Le Mans 24 Hours (LMP1 Class — Pescarolo Sport, 5th 1000 km Valencia LMS (LMP1 Class — Pescarolo Sport ), 4 races VLN championship with Manthey Racing (2 wins, 1 pole position), 18th Daytona 24H (12th DP)
He started 2008 with the P2 class and overall win at the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring in the Penske Porsche RS Spyder.
As of 2009 Roger Penske lost sponsorship for the sports car program, and Dumas and Penske regular Timo Bernhard race on loan to the Audi Sport Team Joest for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, finishing 17 overall and 13 in class in the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans
Dumas, together with Timo Bernhard and Mike Rockenfeller won the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans in an Audi R15 TDI plus. He also won the 2010 24 Hours of Spa in a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR. Dumas also won with partner Klaus Graf in the CytoSport Porsche RS Spyder at the ALMS event at Mosport.
Romain Dumas will develop and drive the Porsche 919 Hybrid in the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2014.
In 2014, Romain Dumas won the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in a Norma M20 "RD Limited" prototype developed specifically for the event.
In 2015, Dumas raced a Porsche 997 GT3 Cup Car in the RGT class of the WRC Monte Carlo Rally, placing second behind class winner François Delecour. Later he claimed a class win at the Rallye Deutschland.
Dumas continued as Porsche LMP1 driver in the 2016 FIA WEC. He won the 6 Hours of Silverstone and 24 Hours of Le Mans. Also, he claimed a second win at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with a Norma prototype.
Career results
Complete Euro Formula 3000 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 | DC | Points |
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2001 | B & C Competition | VLL 6 | PER Ret | MNZ 3 | DON 5 | ZOL 14 | IMO | NÜR | VAL 2 | 7th | 13 | |
2002 | John Village Automotive | VLL 1 | PER Ret | MOZ 1 | SPA 1 | DON 10 | BRN 2 | DIJ 6 | JER 4 | CAG 5 | 2nd | 42 |
24 Hours of Le Mans results
Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
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2001 | Freisinger Motorsport | Gunnar Jeannette Philippe Haezebrouck | Porsche 911 GT3-RS | GT | 282 | 7th | 2nd |
2002 | Freisinger Motorsport | Sascha Maassen Jörg Bergmeister | Porsche 911 GT3-RS | GT | 321 | 17th | 2nd |
2003 | Team Nasamax McNeil Engineering | Robbie Sterling Werner Lupberger | Reynard 01Q-Cosworth | LMP900 | 138 | DNF | DNF |
2004 | Freisinger Motorsport | Stéphane Ortelli Ralf Kelleners | Porsche 911 GT3-RSR | GT | 321 | 13th | 3rd |
2005 | IMSA Performance | Raymond Narac Sébastien Dumez | Porsche 911 GT3-RS | GT2 | 322 | 15th | 4th |
2006 | IMSA Performance Matmut | Raymond Narac Luca Riccitelli | Porsche 911 GT3-RSR | GT2 | 211 | DNF | DNF |
2007 | Pescarolo Sport | Emmanuel Collard Jean-Christophe Boullion | Pescarolo 01-Judd | LMP1 | 358 | 3rd | 3rd |
2008 | Pescarolo Sport | Emmanuel Collard Jean-Christophe Boullion | Pescarolo 01-Judd | LMP1 | 238 | DNF | DNF |
2009 | Audi Sport Team Joest | Timo Bernhard Alexandre Prémat | Audi R15 TDI | LMP1 | 333 | 17th | 13th |
2010 | Audi Sport North America | Timo Bernhard Mike Rockenfeller | Audi R15 TDI plus | LMP1 | 397 | 1st | 1st |
2011 | Audi Sport Team Joest | Timo Bernhard Mike Rockenfeller | Audi R18 TDI | LMP1 | 116 | DNF | DNF |
2012 | Audi Sport Team Joest | Marc Gené Loïc Duval | Audi R18 ultra | LMP1 | 366 | 5th | 5th |
2013 | Porsche AG Team Manthey | Marc Lieb Richard Lietz | Porsche 911 RSR | GTE Pro | 315 | 16th | 1st |
2014 | Porsche Team | Marc Lieb Neel Jani | Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1-H | 348 | 11th | 4th |
2015 | Porsche Team | Marc Lieb Neel Jani | Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 391 | 5th | 5th |
2016 | Porsche Team | Marc Lieb Neel Jani | Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 384 | 1st | 1st |
Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results
Year | Entrant | Class | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Rank | Points |
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2012 | Audi Sport Team Joest | LMP1 | Audi R18 TDI | Audi TDI 3.7L Turbo V6 (Diesel) | SEB 2 | 6th | 67 | ||||||||
Audi R18 ultra | SPA 1 | LMS 4 | SIL | SÃO | BHR | FUJ | SHA | ||||||||
2013 | Porsche AG Team Manthey | LMGTE Pro | Porsche 911 RSR | Porsche 4.0L Flat-6 | SIL 4 | SPA 5 | LMS 1 | SÃO | COA | FUJ | SHA | BHR | 10th | 72 | |
2014 | Porsche Team | LMP1 | Porsche 919 Hybrid | Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4 (Hybrid) | SIL Ret | SPA 4 | LMS 5 | COA 4 | FUJ 4 | SHA 3 | BHR 2 | SÃO 1 | 3rd | 117 | |
2015 | Porsche Team | LMP1 | Porsche 919 Hybrid | Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4 (Hybrid) | SIL 2 | SPA 2 | LMS 5 | NÜR 2 | COA 12 | FUJ 2 | SHA 2 | BHR 1 | 3rd | 138.5 | |
2016 | Porsche Team | LMP1 | Porsche 919 Hybrid | Porsche 2.0 L Turbo V4 (Hybrid) | SIL 1 | SPA 2 | LMS 1 | NÜR 4 | MEX 4 | COA 4 | FUJ 5 | SHA 4 | BHR 6 | 1st | 160 |
Complete WRC results
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | WDC | Points |
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2012 | Romain Dumas | Mini John Cooper Works WRC | MON | SWE | MEX | POR | ARG | GRE | NZL | FIN | GER | GBR | FRA 16 | ITA | ESP | NC | 0 |
2013 | Romain Dumas | Ford Fiesta RS WRC | MON | SWE | MEX | POR | ARG | GRE | ITA | FIN | GER | AUS | FRA 10 | ESP | GBR | 31st | 1 |
2014 | Romain Dumas | Porsche 997 GT3 RS 4.0 | MON | SWE | MEX | POR | ARG | ITA | POL | FIN | GER | AUS | FRA 19 | ESP | GBR | NC | 0 |
2015 | Romain Dumas | Porsche 997 GT3 RS 4.0 | MON 26 | SWE | MEX | ARG | POR | ITA | POL | FIN | GER 26 | AUS | FRA Ret | ESP | GBR | NC | 0 |
2017 | Romain Dumas | Porsche 997 GT3 RS 4.0 | MON 26 | SWE | MEX | FRA | ARG | POR | ITA | POL | FIN | GER | ESP | GBR | AUS | NC* | 0* |
* Season still in progress.
FIA R-GT Cup results
Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Pos. | Points |
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2015 | Romain Dumas | Porsche 997 GT3 RS 4.0 | MON 2 | BEL Ret | GER 1 | FRA Ret | SUI | 2nd | 43 |
Dakar Rally results
Year | Class | Vehicle | Position | Stages won |
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2015 | Cars | Peugeot | DNF | 0 |
2016 | 20th | 0 | ||
2017 | 8th | 0 |