Michel Jourdain Jr. is a racing driver from Mexico who competes in TCR World Tour for Peralta Racing Team. Jourdain Jr. has recorded 0 wins and 1 podium from 55 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 4,561 ranks Jourdain Jr. 1821th of 40,700 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.
| 2025-05-01 | Mexico | P8 | +45 |
| 2025-05-01 | Mexico | P8 | +42 |
| 2025-05-01 | Mexico | P7 | +52 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +129 | Las Vegas 500K 1997 | IndyCar | P2 |
| +126 | Race of Spain 2007 | World Touring Car Championship | P6 |
| +80 | Race of Spain 2007 | World Touring Car Championship | P9 |
| +72 | Indianapolis 500 2012 | IndyCar | P19 |
| +69 | Race of Germany 2007 | World Touring Car Championship | P9 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | ▸TCR World Tour | Peralta Racing Team | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P14 | +140 | 4,561 |
| 2012 | ▸IndyCar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P23 | +72 | 4,421 | |
| 2011 | ▸NASCAR Xfinity | Roush Fenway Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P36 | −117 | 4,349 |
| 2008 | ▸NASCAR Xfinity | Braun Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P38 | −96 | 4,466 |
| 2007 | ▸World Touring Car Championship | SEAT Sport | 21 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P18 | +234 | 4,562 |
| ▸NASCAR Xfinity | Roush Fenway Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P44 | +37 | ||
| 2006 | ▸NASCAR Xfinity | ppc Racing | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P43 | −126 | 4,291 |
| 2005 | ▸NASCAR Xfinity | ppc Racing | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P43 | −1,327 | 4,417 |
| 1997 | ▸IndyCar | Team Scandia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P20 | +129 | 5,744 |
| 1996 | ▸IndyCar | Team Scandia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | +4,394 | 5,744 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Carl Edwards | 5,627 | 26 | 4 | 22 | 15% |
| 🇺🇸 Kenny Wallace | 4,399 | 25 | 4 | 21 | 16% |
| 🇺🇸 Denny Hamlin | 7,334 | 24 | 3 | 21 | 13% |
| 🇺🇸 Clint Bowyer | 6,206 | 24 | 2 | 22 | 8% |
| 🇺🇸 Jon Wood | 4,367 | 24 | 6 | 18 | 25% |
| 🇺🇸 J.J. Yeley | 3,722 | 24 | 10 | 14 | 42% |
| 🇺🇸 Reed Sorenson | 3,690 | 24 | 4 | 20 | 17% |
| 🇺🇸 Paul Menard | 5,124 | 23 | 4 | 19 | 17% |
| 🇺🇸 Stacy Compton | 4,507 | 23 | 7 | 16 | 30% |
| 🇺🇸 Ashton Lewis | 4,454 | 23 | 4 | 19 | 17% |
| 🇺🇸 Tony StewartHigher-rated, 1× champion | 6,497 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 45% |
| 🇺🇸 Josef NewgardenFIA Platinum, 3× champion | 6,297 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇬🇧 Mike ConwayFIA Platinum, 2× champion | 6,279 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,811 | 🇯🇵 Yuki Nemoto | Super GT | 4,565 |
| 1,812 | 🇺🇸 Juan Correa | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,564 |
| 1,813 | 🇫🇷 Rino Mastronardi | European Le Mans Series | 4,564 |
| 1,814 | 🇬🇧 Rob Collard | British GT Championship | 4,564 |
| 1,815 | 🇮🇹 Giulio Cabianca | Formula 1 | 4,563 |
| 1,816 | 🇺🇸 Byron Defoor | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,562 |
| 1,817 | 🇩🇪 Colin Thompson | IMSA Prototype Challenge | 4,562 |
| 1,818 | 🇺🇸 Jim Pace | IMSA WeatherTech | 4,562 |
| 1,819 | 🇩🇪 Nico Menzel | Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie | 4,562 |
| 1,820 | 🇯🇵 Kazuhisa Urabe | Super Formula Lights | 4,561 |
| 1,821 | 🇲🇽 Michel Jourdain Jr. | TCR World Tour | 4,561 |
| 1,822 | 🇨🇭 Ottorino Volonterio | Formula 1 | 4,561 |
| 1,823 | 🇨🇦 Parker Thompson | WEC | 4,561 |
| 1,824 | 🇯🇵 Takeshi Tsuchiya | Super GT | 4,560 |
| 1,826 | 🇺🇸 Sean Hingorani | ARCA Menards West | 4,559 |
| 1,825 | 🇰🇬 . "Selv" | Nürburgring 24 Hours | 4,559 |
| 1,827 | 🇦🇺 Nicholas McBride | FIA Formula 3 European | 4,558 |
| 1,828 | 🇫🇷 Pierre-Louis Chovet | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,558 |
| 1,829 | 🇦🇹 Simon Reicher | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,558 |
| 1,830 | 🇬🇧 Struan Moore | GT World Challenge Europe | 4,557 |
| 1,831 | 🇫🇷 Eugène Chaboud | Formula 1 | 4,556 |
Michel Jourdain Jr. is a professional road racer, Gold-graded for endurance and sportscar competition, with a career spanning nine seasons across American open-wheel and touring-car championships. He has raced primarily for ppc Racing, which fielded him in 23 of his 55 career starts.[1]
His record is split between IndyCar, where he made four oval-only starts in 1996–2012 and scored one podium, and a series of touring-car campaigns that began in 2005. He spent seven seasons in NASCAR Xfinity beginning in 2005 for Roush Fenway Racing, contesting 27 rounds across primarily oval tracks; completed a full season in the 2007 World Touring Car Championship with SEAT Sport, finishing 18th in the standings across 21 rounds; and returned to competition in 2025 with three starts in the TCR World Tour for Peralta Racing Team.[2]
Jourdain was a regular competitor against established professionals in Xfinity and touring cars, finishing consistently behind drivers such as Carl Edwards, who won the 2007 Xfinity title, and Kenny Wallace, a 547-start career regular. He finished ahead of stronger opposition on occasion; his three podium-less finishes over Denny Hamlin, an elite professional, and five over Tony Stewart, a former IndyCar champion, represent isolated instances rather than a sustained pattern in competition where both drivers were regular entrants. His career record shows a professional racing across multiple series and formats at a level midway through fields that mixed amateurs with graded professionals.