Nicolas Lapierre is a racing driver from France who last raced in WEC for Alpine Endurance Team. Lapierre is a two-time champion (2016, 2022), with 25 wins and 70 podiums from 180 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 5,481 ranks Lapierre 628th of 40,349 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.
| 2024-09-15 | Fuji HYPERCAR | P3 | +139 |
| 2024-09-01 | Circuit of the Americas HYPERCAR | P9 | +36 |
| 2024-07-14 | SAO PAULO HYPERCAR | P10 | +26 |
| 2024-06-15 | LE MANS HYPERCAR | DNF | −116 |
| 2024-05-11 | Spa-Francorchamps HYPERCAR | P12 | −76 |
| Rating won | Race | Series | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| +188 | Sebring International Raceway 2022 | WEC | P1 |
| +170 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza 2022 | WEC | P1 |
| +162 | FUJI SPEED WAY 2013 | WEC | P1 |
| +143 | Silverstone 2014 | WEC | P1 |
| +140 | Fuji 2024 | WEC | P3 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | ▸WEC | Alpine Endurance Team | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P18 | −94 | 5,481 |
| 2023 | ▸European Le Mans Series | COOL Racing | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | −50 | 5,575 |
| ▸Asian Le Mans Series | COOL Racing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | +47 | ||
| ▸IMSA WeatherTech | PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P29 | −96 | ||
| ▸WEC | COOL Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P25 | −34 | ||
| 2022 | ▸European Le Mans Series | COOL Racing | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P5 | +155 | 5,708 |
| ▸WEC | Alpine ELF Team | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +302 | ||
| ▸IMSA WeatherTech | PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P26 | +22 | ||
| 2021 | ▸European Le Mans Series | COOL Racing | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P13 | −303 | 5,228 |
| ▸WEC | Alpine Elf Matmut | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P3 | −34 | ||
| ▸IMSA WeatherTech | PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P16 | −111 | ||
| 2020 | ▸WEC | Cool Racing | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | +102 | 5,353 |
| ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Tower Motorsport by Starworks | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P18 | −158 | ||
| 2019 | ▸WEC | Cool Racing | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P3 | −135 | 5,585 |
| ▸IMSA WeatherTech | DragonSpeed | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P10 | −142 | ||
| 2018 | ▸WEC | Signatech Alpine Matmut | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P2 | +64 | 6,033 |
| ▸IMSA WeatherTech | Tequila Patron ESM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P25 | −203 | ||
| 2017 | ▸WEC | Signatech Alpine Matmut | 9 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P5 | +118 | 6,025 |
| ▸IMSA WeatherTech | DragonSpeed | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P28 | −148 | ||
| 2016 | ▸WEC | Signatech Alpine | 9 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P1 | +458 | 5,902 |
| 2015 | ▸World Touring Car Championship | LADA Sport Rosneft | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P16 | −577 | 5,928 |
| ▸WEC | KCMG | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P8 | +77 | ||
| 2014 | ▸WEC | Toyota Racing | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P7 | +366 | 6,263 |
| 2013 | ▸WEC | Toyota Racing | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P5 | −8 | 5,854 |
| 2012 | ▸WEC | Toyota Racing | 6 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P3 | +217 | 5,862 |
| 2007 | ▸GP2 Series | DAMS | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | P14 | −568 | 5,645 |
| 2006 | ▸GP2 Series | Arden International | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P7 | +391 | 6,212 |
| 2005 | ▸GP2 Series | Arden International | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P14 | −506 | 5,821 |
| 2004 | ▸Formula 3 Euro Series | Opel Team Signature | 18 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | P2 | +404 | 6,327 |
| 2003 | ▸Formula 3 Euro Series | Signature-Plus | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P10 | +4,573 | 5,923 |
| ▸Formula 3 Macau | Signature-Plus | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | +238 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇵🇱 Robert KubicaFIA Platinum | 5,998 | 45 | 23 | 22 | 51% |
| 🇫🇷 Alexandre PrematFIA Gold | 3,842 | 45 | 15 | 30 | 33% |
| 🇯🇵 Loïc DuvalFIA Platinum | 4,994 | 42 | 31 | 11 | 74% |
| 🇭🇰 Ho-Pin TungFIA Gold | 5,510 | 40 | 25 | 15 | 63% |
| 🇳🇱 Giedo Van Der GardeFIA Platinum | 5,284 | 40 | 32 | 8 | 80% |
| 🇩🇪 Nico RosbergFIA Platinum | 7,900 | 39 | 12 | 27 | 31% |
| 🇨🇭 Neel JaniFIA Platinum | 4,865 | 39 | 19 | 20 | 49% |
| 🇦🇷 José María LópezFIA Platinum | 4,828 | 39 | 11 | 28 | 28% |
| 🇯🇵 Katsuyuki HiranakaFIA Gold | 3,820 | 35 | 31 | 4 | 89% |
| 🇺🇸 Olivier PlaFIA Platinum | 5,240 | 34 | 17 | 17 | 50% |
| 🇬🇧 Lewis HamiltonFIA Platinum, 9× champion | 8,520 | 27 | 13 | 14 | 48% |
| 🇳🇿 Mitch EvansFIA Platinum, 1× champion | 6,953 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50% |
| 🇦🇷 Franco ColapintoFIA Platinum | 6,767 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 17% |
| # | Driver | Series | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 618 | 🇬🇧 Paul Stewart | International Formula 3000 | 5,493 |
| 619 | 🇺🇸 Sammy Smith | NASCAR Xfinity | 5,492 |
| 620 | 🇺🇸 Buzz Calkins | IndyCar | 5,488 |
| 621 | 🇮🇹 Mika Salo | WEC | 5,487 |
| 622 | 🇫🇷 Franck Montagny | Formula E | 5,486 |
| 623 | 🇬🇧 Clément Novalak | European Le Mans Series | 5,485 |
| 624 | 🇳🇱 Robert Doornbos | IndyCar | 5,483 |
| 625 | 🇨🇴 Julián Leal | GP2 Series | 5,482 |
| 626 | 🇺🇸 Sam Schmidt | IndyCar | 5,482 |
| 627 | 🇦🇹 Charlie Wurz | Super Formula | 5,481 |
| 628 | 🇫🇷 Nicolas Lapierre | WEC | 5,481 |
| 629 | 🇨🇦 Jacques Villeneuve | WEC | 5,477 |
| 630 | 🇬🇧 Stefan Johansson | IMSA WeatherTech | 5,477 |
| 631 | 🇩🇰 Kevin Magnussen | WEC | 5,476 |
| 632 | 🇩🇰 Malthe Jakobsen | WEC | 5,474 |
| 633 | 🇯🇵 Ronnie Quintarelli | Super GT | 5,468 |
| 634 | 🇮🇹 Alessio Lorandi | GT World Challenge Europe | 5,465 |
| 635 | 🇧🇷 Marcos Gueiros | International Formula 3000 | 5,464 |
| 636 | 🇿🇦 Ian Scheckter | Formula 1 | 5,461 |
| 637 | 🇫🇷 François Migault | FIA GT Championship | 5,459 |
| 638 | 🇬🇧 Tony Marsh | Formula 1 | 5,459 |
Nicolas Lapierre is a Platinum-graded established professional who raced primarily in endurance and sportscar championships. His main career was in the World Endurance Championship, where he made 72 starts for Alpine, winning 17 races and taking 46 podiums across thirteen seasons from 2012 to 2024. He also contested the European Le Mans Series for COOL Racing from 2021 to 2023, scoring a win and six podiums in 16 starts in the LMP2 classes. Early in his racing career he competed in single-seater racing, including 38 starts in GP2 and 35 in Formula 3 Euro Series.[1]
Lapierre won the WEC championship twice, in 2016 with Signatech Alpine and again in 2022 with Alpine ELF Team. His record in shared-car endurance racing placed him among the series' regulars at the front; across his WEC career he compiled 17 wins and nearly two-thirds of his starts finished on the podium. In European Le Mans Series competition he was again regularly near the front, and in the Asian Le Mans Series he made two appearances in 2023. His brief World Touring Car Championship campaign in 2015 saw him finish sixteenth in the championship with LADA Sport Rosneft.[2]
In the fields where Lapierre raced most, he held his own against drivers of considerable standing. Robert Kubica, an established professional with Formula 1 and multiple Le Mans class championship credentials, was a regular opponent in endurance racing; Lapierre finished ahead of him in close competition across their shared seasons. He also raced alongside and regularly ahead of Alexandre Premat, a Gold-graded professional, in both single-seater and endurance categories. Earlier in his career, competing in Formula 3 Euro Series and GP2 Series, he encountered Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg; though both drivers were far ahead of him in pace and achievement, Lapierre finished ahead of them on occasion in those early championships.