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Alexandre Cougnaud
Alexandre Cougnaud
Nationality	French
Born	5 December 1991 (age 33); Les Sables-d'Olonne, France
European F3 Open Championship career
Debut season	2012
Current team	RP Motorsport
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Car number	18
Former teams	Top F3
Starts	106
Wins	3
Podiums	18
Poles	3
Fastest laps	3
Best finish	1st in 2013
Previous series
2011; 2010; 2009	Formula Renault 2.0 Alps; Formula Renault 2.0 MEC; Formul'Academy Euro Series

Alexandre Cougnaud (born 5 December 1991) is a French racing driver who competes in the European Le Mans Series with Graff Racing.^[1]

Career

Early career

Cougnaud, born in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, began karting in 2002 and raced primarily in his native France country. Having finished sixth in the Formula Kart France series in 2008, he entered the Formul'Academy Euro Series the following year, driving for Signatech; he finished 14th in the championship, with eight points.^[1]
In 2010, he entered four rounds of the Formula Renault 2.0 Suisse for ARTA Engineering; he took a single podium, and finished ninth in the championship, with 57 points.^[1]
In 2011, he entered a single round of the Championnat VdeV with AB Sport Auto, in addition to fourteen rounds of the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps with ARTA Engineering, and three races of the Formula Ford EuroCup with Cliff Dempsey Racing; he was classified tenth in the Championnat VdeV, and 17th in the Formula Renault Alps.^[1]

European F3 Open

In 2012, Cougnaud decided to race in "Copa/Cup Class" of the European F3 Open Championship for the Dallara F308 cars with Top F3 French team. He had a successful season, finishing 3rd in the overall classification of the Cup class with eight podiums.

In 2013, Cougnaud joined the Italian team RP Motorsport to drive a Dallara F312 car.^[2] He and Santiago Urrutia were originally the two drivers chosen to drive a F312 car for Fabio Pampado's team;^[3] and they have been joined by Alexander Toril ^[4] and Sandy Stuvik to compete in the European F3 Open with a Dallara Formula 3 F312 as well.

Cougnaud had some difficulties with the set-up of his car at the beginning of the season, especially in bad weather conditions and he also incurred several penalties, like at Silverstone, where he finished fifth in the second race but got a 30-second penalty after the race, so fifth place was for Stern.^[5]

He had a good result at Jerez where he finished fourth in the first race, and third in the second one.

At Monza, in October, he did his best performance of the season in the second race : pole position, P2 and fastest lap. He could not resist to his teammate Sandy Stuvik in the last lap.^[6]

Cougnaud had a great finish of the season at Barcelona finishing in third position for the first race and winning the second one (his first victory in Formula 3).^[7]

Porsche Carrera Cup France

In both 2014 and 2015 Alexandre Cougnaud raced in the Porsche Carrera Cup France championship. He finished in 10th position the first year and in 12th position the second year.

European Le Mans Series

In 2016, Alexandre joined the famous European Le Mans Series (ELMS), a European sports car racing endurance series inspired by the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and run by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). For his first year in ELMS, Alexandre won two races for the Yvan Muller Racing team. The first one being the prestigious Road To Le Mans race and the second one, the last leg of the 2016 championship in Estoril.

In 2017, Alexandre extended his contract with the Yvan Muller racing team for one year. After two legs he is in second position of the LMP3 classification with one podium (2nd position) in Monza.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2009	Formul'Academy Euro Series	Auto Sport Academy	14	0	0	0	0	8	14th
2010	Formula Renault 2.0 Middle European Championship	ARTA Engineering	4	0	0	0	1	38	9th
2011	Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Series	ARTA Engineering	14	0	0	0	0	79	17th
	Formula Ford EuroCup	Cliff Dempsey Racing	3	0	0	0	0	N/A
	V de V Challenge Endurance Moderne - Proto	AB Sport Auto	1	0	0	0	0	8	10th
2012	European F3 Open	Top F3	16	0	0	0	0	14	15th
	European F3 Open - Copa F308/300		16	0	1	2	8	70	3rd
	European F3 Open Winter Series		2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2013	European F3 Open Winter Series	RP Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2013	European F3 Open	RP Motorsport	16	1	1	1	4	139	6th
2014	Porsche Carrera Cup France	Racing Technology	13	0	0	0	1	59	12th
2015	Porsche Carrera Cup France	Martinet Team Pro GT	12	0	0	0	1	83	10th
2016	European Le Mans Series - LMP3	M.Racing - YMR	6	1	0	0	1	36	8th
2016	Road To Le Mans - LMP3	DC Racing	1	1	0	0	1	N/A	1st
2017	European Le Mans Series - LMP3	M.Racing - YMR	6	0	0	0	4	81	2nd
2017	Le Mans Cup - LMP3	M.Racing - YMR	2	0	0	0	1	12	19th
2018	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Graff	6	0	0	0	0	23	14th
2019	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Graff	6	0	0	0	4	83	3rd
2019	24H GT Series - A6	GPX Racing
2020	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Graff	5	0	0	0	2	43	6th
2021	GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup	Saintéloc Racing	5	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2022	French GT4 Cup - Silver	CSA Racing	10	0	0	0	1	67	7th
2022	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	DKR Engineering	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	18th
2023	GT4 European Series - Silver	CSA Racing	8	0	0	0	0	30	22nd
	GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup	CSA Racing	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Graff Racing	Reserve driver
2024	Le Mans Cup - LMP3	M Racing	7	0	0	0	1	23.5	10th