1. Tristan Vautier moved up to the main Championnat de France Formula Renault 2.0 series in 2007, finishing fourth, competing in some events in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, scoring a 2nd and 3rd in Zolder.
33 Facts About Tristan Vautier
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Tristan Vautier moved to the Formula Palmer Audi series in 2009, where he finished fourth with six victories.
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Tristan Vautier made his FIA Formula Two Championship debut at Circuit de Catalunya, in place of Edoardo Piscopo.
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Tristan Vautier excelled in the pre-race tests and in the first race, where he finished third behind Andy Soucek and Mikhail Aleshin.
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Tristan Vautier finished in the points in the second race, finishing sixth.
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Tristan Vautier returned to the series in 2011, this time driving for JDC MotorSports.
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Tristan Vautier won four races and finished every race in the top five, winning the championship over Connor De Phillippi by 25 points.
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Tristan Vautier signed with Sam Schmidt Motorsports to race in Firestone Indy Lights in 2012.
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Tristan Vautier won the pole in his first race on the Streets of St Petersburg and took a flag-to-flag victory, duplicating his Star Mazda feat from two years before by winning on debut.
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Tristan Vautier clinched the 2012 Firestone Indy Lights championship by eight points over Esteban Guerrieri.
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Tristan Vautier signed to compete in the 2013 IndyCar Series season for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.
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Tristan Vautier is the first driver to be champion of two rungs of the Road to Indy ladder and move onto the IndyCar Series.
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Tristan Vautier finished 20th in points with a best finish of tenth in the second race of the season at Barber Motorsports Park.
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Tristan Vautier finished sixteenth in his first Indianapolis 500 race.
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Tristan Vautier's showing got Dale Coyne to keep him in the car for the remainder of the season, and he backed his strong Detroit result with a 6th place in Mid-Ohio.
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Tristan Vautier returned to IndyCar in 2024, making a start at Detroit driving the No 51 Honda for Dale Coyne.
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Tristan Vautier debuted Sports Car racing while still racing open wheels, in the 2009 French GT Championship, and won on his debut race in Nogaro, teaming-up with French driver Jean-Charles Levy.
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In 2014, Tristan Vautier was hired by the Mazda factory team to race at the four endurance races of the 2014 United SportsCar Championship in a LMP2 diesel prototype.
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Tristan Vautier ended the 2016 season by winning the Blancpain GT Sprint final race in Barcelona, teamed-up with Rosenqvist.
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Tristan Vautier returned to full-time racing in the US in 2017 with Mercedes-AMG customer Team SunEnergy1 racing, teaming-up with Team owner Kenny Habul, and Boris Said.
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Tristan Vautier set Sebring's GTD track record on his way to pole position for the 12-Hour race, before finishing on the podium after a late comeback in the closing stages.
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Tristan Vautier returned to the Blanpain GT Series with Team Akka-ASP, teaming-up with Mercedes driver Dani Juncadella and open wheel ace Felix Serralles, closing the season by a win in Barcelona just as he did in 2016.
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Tristan Vautier went on to qualify 5th in the Dale Coyne Racing entry, and led 15 laps in the race before being caught in a multi-car incident.
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In 2018, Tristan Vautier raced in prototypes alongside of his GT duties as Mercedes-AMG Factory driver, joining American Matt McMurry behind the wheel of the No 90 Cadillac DPi-V.
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Tristan Vautier's GT Racing campaign for Mercedes-AMG saw him clinch the Intercontinental GT Challenge during the title-deciding race in WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, scoring a 2nd place in the Bathurst 12 Hours and a win in the Suzuka 10 Hours.
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Tristan Vautier debuted on the Nordschleife, finishing in the Top-10 in the 24 Hours of Nurburgring for Team Landgraff.
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In 2019, Tristan Vautier joined JDC-Miller MotorSports to drive a Cadillac DPi at the IMSA WeatherTech Championship together with Mikhail Goikhberg, where he scored two 5th place finishes.
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Tristan Vautier continued racing in GT3 as a Mercedes Factory driver for Team Strakka in the InterContinental GT and Team GetSpeed in the VLN Series and Nurburgring 24 Hours.
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Tristan Vautier won the 2021 12 Hours of Sebring with JDC, together with Loic Duval and Sebastien Bourdais.
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In 2022 Tristan Vautier scored pole and finished 3rd in the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona teaming with Loic Duval, Richard Westbrook and Ben Keating.
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Tristan Vautier finished 2nd in the Sebring 12 Hours teaming with Westbrook and Duval.
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In 2023 Tristan Vautier competed in the European Le Mans Series with Algarve Pro Racing, later making his Hypercar debut in the FIA World Endurance Championship, having been called up by Vanwall to replace Jacques Villeneuve.
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Tristan Vautier did not complete sufficient laps in order to score full points.