Pierre Thiriet is a racing driver who last raced in WEC for Signatech Alpine Matmut. Thiriet has recorded 3 wins and 11 podiums from 20 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,518 ranks Thiriet 1669th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 2019-06-15 | LE MANS · LMP2 | P1 | +17 |
| 2019-05-04 | SPA FRANCORCHAMPS · LMP2 | P3 | +6 |
| 2019-03-15 | SEBRING · LMP2 | P2 | +10 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | ▸WEC | Signatech Alpine Matmut | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P13 | +34 | 3,535 |
| 2018 | ▸WEC | Signatech Alpine Matmut | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P4 | +31 | 3,535 |
| 2017 | ▸WEC | G-Drive Racing | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P15 | −31 | 3,493 |
| 2016 | ▸WEC | Thiriet By Tds Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P61 | −18 | 3,490 |
| 2015 | ▸WEC | Thiriet By Tds Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P51 | −21 | 3,502 |
| 2014 | ▸WEC | Thiriet By TDS Racing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P24 | +18 | 3,520 |
| 2013 | ▸WEC | Thiriet by TDS Racing | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P70 | −7 | 3,523 |
| 2012 | ▸WEC | Thiriet By TDS Racing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P31 | +30 | 3,530 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇳 Ho-Pin Tung | 3,893 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 47% |
| 🇬🇧 François Perrodo | 3,822 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 75% |
| 🇲🇽 Roberto Gonzalez | 3,598 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 83% |
| 🇫🇷 Matthieu Vaxiviere | 5,193 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 73% |
| 🇫🇷 Jean-Eric Vergne | 6,558 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 50% |
| 🇫🇷 Julien Canal | 3,411 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 44% |
| 🇳🇱 Giedo Van Der Garde | 4,573 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 100% |
| 🇲🇨 Stéphane Richelmi | 4,401 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% |
| 🇬🇧 Alex Brundle | 3,832 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 75% |
| 🇫🇷 Gabriel Aubry | 3,718 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 50% |
Pierre Thiriet was a French endurance racing driver whose eight-year career from 2012 to 2019 centred on the World Endurance Championship. All 20 of his WEC starts came with Signatech Alpine Matmut, a team fielding competitive drivers such as Nicolas Lapierre; Thiriet claimed three wins and eleven podiums across those races, an average finish of third place. The opening campaign proved his strongest; in 2012 he secured second place in the LMP2 class at Le Mans and won the European Le Mans Series title in that class, establishing himself as a capable competitor in prototype endurance racing.[1]
Thiriet's record in the championship carried substance despite the modest entry count. Among his most frequent rivals were former and contemporary champions spanning the professional grades: he held a 5-5 head-to-head record against Jean-Eric Vergne, a Platinum-graded driver with two Formula E titles; he finished ahead of Nyck de Vries, another Platinum-graded triple champion, in six of their encounters; and he outpaced François Perrodo, a Bronze-graded three-time champion, nine times in twelve races. His competitive standing lay in the professional field's upper-middle tier, characterised by his Racer Rating of 3,518. Against Matthieu Vaxiviere, a Gold-graded two-time champion, the advantage tilted the other way; Thiriet finished ahead in eight of eleven meetings but behind in three, reflecting the difficulty of maintaining consistent pace against drivers of that calibre. He achieved most success in his final season, 2019, when he scored a win and three podiums across three rounds, though he finished the year thirteenth overall in the championship before retiring from professional racing.[2]