François Kirmann is a racing driver from France who last raced in Le Mans Cup for DKR Engineering. Kirmann is a one-time champion (2019), with 2 wins and 5 podiums from 9 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,733 ranks Kirmann 4816th of 40,308 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2021-10-24 | AUTODROMO DO ALGARVE LMP3 | P16 | −41 |
| 2021-06-05 | Paul Ricard LMP3 | P15 | −36 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +140 | Paul Ricard 2019 | Le Mans Cup | P2 |
| +129 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza 2019 | Le Mans Cup | P2 |
| +127 | LE MANS 2019 | Road to Le Mans | P1 |
| +123 | BARCELONA-CATALUNYA 2019 | Le Mans Cup | P1 |
| +93 | AUTODROMO DO ALGARVE 2019 | Le Mans Cup | P3 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | ▸Le Mans Cup | DKR Engineering | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P20 | −76 | 3,947 |
| 2019 | ▸Le Mans Cup | DKR Engineering | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +2,672 | 4,022 |
| ▸Road to Le Mans | DKR Engineering | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | +212 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Anthony WELLSFIA Bronze | 4,160 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 44% |
| 🇺🇸 Maurice SmithFIA Bronze | 4,102 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 78% |
| 🇺🇸 John SchauermanFIA Bronze | 3,919 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 67% |
| 🇬🇧 Colin NOBLEFIA Gold | 3,754 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 44% |
| 🇫🇷 Jacques WolffFIA Bronze | 3,680 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 78% |
| 🇫🇷 Nicolas SCHATZFIA Silver | 3,621 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 78% |
| 🇺🇸 Rob HodesFIA Bronze | 3,370 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 89% |
| 🇬🇧 Alex MortimerFIA Silver | 3,288 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 89% |
| 🇬🇧 Mark CraderFIA Bronze | 3,273 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 89% |
| 🇨🇦 Garett GristFIA Silver | 4,337 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 88% |
| 🇸🇰 Yann EhrlacherFIA Gold, 3× champion | 5,369 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| 🇺🇸 John FalbFIA Bronze | 5,310 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇺🇸 Connor De PhillippiFIA Gold, 1× champion | 5,273 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,806 | 🇬🇧 Jack Brown | British GT Championship | 3,735 |
| 4,807 | 🇺🇸 Jeff Kingsley | GT World Challenge Europe | 3,735 |
| 4,808 | 🇷🇺 Andrey Romanov | World Touring Car Championship | 3,734 |
| 4,809 | 🇺🇸 Brian Sockwell | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,734 |
| 4,810 | 🇮🇹 Gianluca Giraudi | European Le Mans Series | 3,734 |
| 4,811 | 🇺🇸 Ken Butler | NASCAR Xfinity | 3,734 |
| 4,812 | 🏳️ Nico Rindlisbacher | 24H Series | 3,734 |
| 4,813 | 🇩🇰 Nicolay Møller Madsen | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 3,734 |
| 4,814 | 🇳🇱 Paul van Splunteren | FIA GT Championship | 3,734 |
| 4,815 | 🇫🇮 Aleksanteri Huovinen | GB3 | 3,733 |
| 4,816 | 🇫🇷 François Kirmann | Le Mans Cup | 3,733 |
| 4,817 | 🇺🇸 Gerry Kraut | IMSA WeatherTech | 3,733 |
| 4,818 | 🇫🇷 Julien Lemoine | Le Mans Cup | 3,733 |
| 4,819 | 🇨🇦 Mac Clark | USF Pro 2000 | 3,733 |
| 4,820 | 🇺🇸 Robby Lyons | ARCA Menards Series | 3,733 |
| 4,821 | 🇳🇱 Roeland Voerman | 24H Series | 3,733 |
| 4,822 | 🇨🇴 Sebastian Saavedra | Zenith Racing Series | 3,733 |
| 4,823 | 🇺🇸 Clay Greenfield | NASCAR Truck | 3,732 |
| 4,824 | 🇧🇪 Damien Coens | FIA GT Championship | 3,732 |
| 4,825 | 🇩🇪 Nico Otto | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 3,732 |
| 4,826 | 🇦🇺 Abu Bakar Ibrahim | Asian Le Mans Series | 3,731 |
François Kirmann raced in international multiclass endurance series at entry-level professional level, holding an FIA Silver grade. He competed in the Le Mans Cup and Road to Le Mans, piloting LMP3 prototypes for DKR Engineering in shared-car racing across a field mixing amateurs with graded professionals.[1]
Kirmann's indexed racing spans two seasons from 2019 to 2021, with nine starts across the two series. He won the 2019 Le Mans Cup championship with DKR Engineering and took two race wins from nine starts; four of his five podiums came in the Le Mans Cup itself. His first indexed season brought immediate results; he won one of two Road to Le Mans rounds in 2019 and finished on the podium in both.[2]
In the company he kept, Kirmann regularly raced against Anthony Wells, a fellow professional, and typically finished ahead of Maurice Smith, who would go on to win the 2021 Le Mans Cup LMP3 title. He also beat Yann Ehrlacher, an established professional and two-time FIA World Touring Car Cup champion, on at least one occasion.