Harold Primat was born on 12 June 1975 and is a French-born Swiss racing driver who previously competed in the Blancpain Endurance Series and other long-distance events such as the Bathurst 12 Hour and Nurburgring 24 Hours.
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19 Facts About Harold Primat
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Nephew of motorcycle racer Claude Vigreux, Harold Primat began his career in karts before graduating to the Max Mygale and Winfield racing schools in France, as well as the Jim Russell Centre in the UK.
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Harold Primat then moved to the US, where he competed in the Formula Ford 2000 championship.
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Harold Primat then moved on to the British Formula Three Championship and later the F3 Euroseries, before concluding his single-seater career in World Series Lights with the Saulnier team.
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Harold Primat became vice-champion in his second season, narrowly missing out on the title after a prior World Series Lights commitment forced him to skip a race.
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Harold Primat then switched to Rollcentre Racing, which allowed him to compete for overall honours in the LMP1 category, and went on to achieve three top-ten finishes in his debut year.
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Harold Primat switched teams for 2006, becoming part of an all-Swiss line-up in the new Swiss Spirit outfit, under his former boss Serge Saulnier, whose team ran the programme.
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Harold Primat won top 3 finishes at Spa and Jarama, finishing in joint-fourth place in the championship overall.
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In January 2009 Harold Primat was confirmed as an Aston Martin Racing factory driver for the brand's first return to top-class endurance racing since 1989.
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The highlight of Harold Primat's season was victory alongside Stefan Mucke at the inaugural Asian Le Mans Series race at Okayama in late autumn.
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Harold Primat then moved to privateer LMP1 outfit Rebellion Racing for the newly revived FIA World Endurance Championship in 2012.
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In 2013 Harold Primat swapped sports-prototype for GT machinery as part of Phoenix Racing's Blancpain Endurance Series, VLN and Bathurst 12 Hour driver roster.
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Piloting an Audi R8 LMS ultra, Harold Primat took fourth place at the Australian classic despite losing four laps to repairs, and achieved the same result at the blue riband 24 Hours of Spa.
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Harold Primat found success on the VLN scene, picking up several top-three finishes.
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On 16 September 2015, Harold Primat announced his retirement from racing, ending his seventeen year long career.
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Harold Primat retired after the final round of the 2015 Blancpain Endurance Series season, at the Nurburgring.
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Harold Primat said that "now is the right time to begin a fresh chapter in life by focusing on projects".
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Since 2016 Harold Primat invested in multiple Startups, amongst others in UK-based companies Playbrush and Busuu as well as Austrian-based Tractive.
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