Tristan Gommendy

Tristan Gommendy

200px French
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2003 - 2004, 2010, 2013 - 2014
Teams	Racing for Holland Gerard Welter
Best finish	6th (2014)
Class wins	0

Tristan Gommendy (born 4 January 1979) is a French professional racing driver.

Racing career

Early career

Born in Le Chesnay, Yvelines, Gommendy began his professional career in French Formula Three in 2000. He won the prestigious Macau Grand Prix in 2002 and also won the French F3 Championship that year. In 2003 he drove in Eurocup Formula Renault V6 and finished third. He moved to its successor the World Series by Nissan in 2004 and finished 5th and another season in 2005 he finished fourth.

GP2, Champ Car, and Superleague Formula

In 2006 Gommendy drove in the first five rounds GP2 Series for the iSport International team and was on front row for his first race in front of Lewis Hamilton. He finished 20th in points, scoring a pair of fifth places at Circuit de Catalunya

On 8 March 2007 it was announced that Gommendy had been signed to drive for PKV Racing in the 2007 Champ Car season as a teammate to Neel Jani. At Houston and Long Beach, he led several laps before breaking down with few laps to go. Later at Circuit Mont-Tremblant, Gommendy won the pole and track record. He participated in twelve of the first thirteen races and finished 12th in points with a best finish of fourth in his final start at TT Circuit Assen.

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Tristan Gommendy driving the FC Porto car at Donington Park during the 2008 Superleague Formula season.

With Champ Car merging with IndyCar the following year, resulting in fewer available race seats, Gommendy joined Superleague Formula driving for F.C. Porto, winning a race at ACI Vallelunga Circuit in 2008 and Donington Park in 2009. Gommendy continued in Superleague Formula with other teams and little success until the series shut down mid-way though the 2011 season.

Sports cars

Gommendy made his first 24 Hours of Le Mans start in 2003. His team finished the race for the first time in 2010, driving a Welter Racing LMP2 entry to 8th in class. In 2011 following the dissolution of Superleague Formula, Gommendy was largely out of racing until he appeared in the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans for Signatech in their LMP2 Alpine A450. The team finished 14th overall and 8th in class.

Motorsports Career Results

Early career

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums	Final Placing
2011	Superleague	Galatasaray S.K.	4	3	3	4	6th
2010	Superleague	Galatasaray S.K.	18	0	0	0	13th
2009	Superleague	F.C. Porto	12	1	0	1	5th
2008	Superleague	F.C. Porto	11	1	0	0	7th
2007	Champ Car	PKV Racing	11	0	1	0	12th
2006	GP2 Series	iSport International	9	0	0	0	20th
2005	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	KTR	17	1	1	5	4th
2004	World Series by Nissan	Saulnier Racing	18	0	0	5	5th
2003	Eurocup Formula Renault V6	ARTA-Signature	17	3	1	8	4th
2002	French Formula Three	ASM	14	10	5	10	1st
2001	French Formula Three	ASM	11	1	0	2	6th
2000	French Formula Three British Formula 3	ASM ?	? 1	? 0	? 0	? 0	11th NC
1999	French Formula Renault	?	?	?	?	?	5th

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2003	Racing for Holland	Felipe Ortiz Beppe Gabbiani	Dome S101-Judd	LMP900	316	DNF	DNF
2004	Gerard Welter	Jean-Bernard Bouvet Bastien Brière	WR LM2004-Peugeot	LMP2	137	DNF	DNF
2010	Gerard Welter	Philippe Salini Stéphane Salini	WR LMP2008-Zytek	LMP2	308	23rd	8th
2013	Signatech-Alpine	Pierre Ragues Nelson Panciatici	Alpine A450-Nissan	LMP2	317	14th	8th
2014	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Pierre Thiriet Ludovic Badey	Ligier JS P2-Nissan	LMP2	355	6th	2nd
2015	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Pierre Thiriet Ludovic Badey	Oreca 05-Nissan	LMP2	204	DNF	DNF

Complete GP2 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	DC	Points
2006	iSport International	VAL FEA Ret	VAL SPR 11	SMR FEA Ret	SMR SPR 17	EUR FEA 13	EUR SPR 12	ESP FEA 5	ESP SPR 5	MON FEA Ret	GBR FEA	GBR SPR	FRA FEA	FRA SPR	GER FEA	GER SPR	HUN FEA	HUN SPR	TUR FEA	TUR SPR	ITA FEA	ITA SPR	20th	6

American Open-Wheel

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Champ Car

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2007	PKV Racing	LVG 5	LBH 11	HOU Ret	POR 7	CLE Ret	MTT 12	TOR Ret	EDM INJ	SJO 8	ROA 7	ZOL Ret	ASN 4	SRF	MXC	12th	140

Superleague Formula

2008-2009

(Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Operator	1		2		3		4		5		6		Position	Points
2008	F.C. Porto	Alan Docking Racing	DON		NÜR		ZOL		EST		VAL		JER		7th	277
			7	9	8	5	6	15	16	DN	8	1	2	12
2009	F.C. Porto	Hitech Junior Team	MAG		ZOL		DON		EST		MOZ		JAR		5th	302
			16	7	12	7	8	1			7	13	6	5

2009 Super Final Results

• Super Final results in 2009 did not count for points towards the main championship.

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6
2009	F.C. Porto Hitech Junior Team	MAG DNQ	ZOL N/A	DON 5	EST	MOZ N/A	JAR 5

2010

Year	Team	Operator	1			2			3			4			5			6			7			8			9			10			NC			12			Position	Points
2010	Galatasaray S.K.	Barazi-Epsilon	SIL			ASS			MAG			JAR			NÜR			ZOL			BRH			ADR			POR			ORD			BEI †			NAV			13th	358
			14	14	X	8	8	X	14	9	X	13	14	X	9	3	5	14	3	4	8	17	X	9	13	X
2011	France - Girondins de Bordeaux	Azerti Motorsport	HOL			BEL																																	13th	52
			14	4	X	14	11	X

External links

• (French)Official website

Sporting positions
Preceded by Ryo Fukuda	French Formula Three Champion 2002	Succeeded by Ryan Briscoe (F3 Euroseries)
Preceded by Takuma Sato	Macau Grand Prix Winner 2002	Succeeded by Nicolas Lapierre