Soheil Ayari

Soheil Ayari
Nationality	French
Born	5 April 1970 (age 54); Aix-les-Baines, Savoie
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years	1997, 1999, 2003–2005, 2007–2012, 2014
Teams	Viper Team Oreca, Pescarolo Sport, Pecom Racing
Best finish	4th (2004, 2010)
Class wins	0

Soheil Ayari (born 5 April 1970) is a French-Iranian race car driver born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, from an Iranian father and a French mother. He won the French Formula Ford championship of 1994, Formula Three championship of 1996 and the Macau Grand Prix of 1997. From 1997 until 2000, he competed in Formula 3000 where he won two races before moving on to the French Supertouring Championship in 2001 where he became champion in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

In 2006 and 2007, he drove in GT Championship, in GT1 for Team Oreca (on a Saleen S7-R). He became French champion in 2006 & 2007 and won the European Le Mans séries championship in 2007 with Stephane Ortelli. In 2008 & 2009, he drove a Corvette GT 1 in French GT 3 championship before joining the Audi ORECA Team in 2010. In 2011, he raced and won 2 Championships : ILMC LMP2 (Signatech Nissan) and International Open GT with JMB Ferrari F458 GT2

Soheil Ayari is also a famous 24 Hours of Le Mans driver with 11 starts in GT 1, LMP1 & LMP2. Best results over all were 4th in 2004 ((Pescarolo)) & 2010 (ORECA 01)), 5th in 2009 ((ORECA)) and 2nd LMP2 (Signatech Nissan) in 2011.

In 2014, he was in the European Le Mans Series, and in 2015, was in the French GT Championship in which he remained in 2016. In 2017, he switched to the GT4 European Southern Cup and in 2018, moved into French GT's again. Ayari also works as a journalist specialising in track tests and races in historic events.^[1]

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 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	DC	Points
1997	Team Astromega	SIL Ret	PAU 6	HEL 1	NÜR 19	PER Ret	HOC Ret	A1R 10	SPA Ret	MUG 6	JER Ret			8th	12
1998	Durango Formula	OSC Ret	IMO Ret	CAT 5	SIL Ret	MON DNQ	PAU Ret	A1R 1	HOC Ret	HUN Ret	SPA 3	PER 3	NÜR Ret	5th	20
1999	Cica Team Oreca	IMO Ret	MON Ret	CAT 10	MAG 8	SIL 4	A1R 2	HOC 12	HUN 4	SPA Ret	NÜR 4			7th	15
2000	Coloni Motorsport	IMO 14	SIL 6	CAT Ret	NÜR Ret	MON Ret	MAG 22	A1R Ret	HOC					24th	1
2000	WRT Racing									HUN 13	SPA 14			24th	1

American open–wheel racing results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Indy Lights

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2000	Brian Stewart Racing	LBH 16	MIL	DET	POR	MIS	CHI	MDO	VAN	LS	STL	HOU	FON	21st	0

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1997	Viper Team Oreca	Tommy Archer Marc Duez	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GT2	76	DNF	DNF
1999	Viper Team Oreca	David Donohue Jean-Philippe Belloc	Chrysler Viper GTS-R	GTS	271	DNF	DNF
2003	Pescarolo Sport	Éric Hélary Nicolas Minassian	Courage C60-Peugeot	LMP900	352	9th	7th
2004	Pescarolo Sport	Érik Comas Benoît Tréluyer	Pescarolo C60-Judd	LMP1	361	4th	4th
2005	Pescarolo Sport	Éric Hélary Sébastien Loeb	Pescarolo C60 Hybrid-Judd	LMP1	288	DNF	DNF
2007	Team Oreca	Stéphane Ortelli Nicolas Lapierre	Saleen S7-R	GT1	318	16th	9th
2008	Team Oreca-Matmut	Loïc Duval Laurent Groppi	Courage-Oreca LC70-Judd	LMP1	357	8th	8th
2009	Team Oreca-Matmut AIM	Olivier Panis Nicolas Lapierre	Oreca 01-AIM	LMP1	370	5th	5th
2010	AIM Team Oreca-Matmut	Didier André Andy Meyrick	Oreca 01-AIM	LMP1	369	4th	4th
2011	Signatech Nissan	Franck Mailleux Lucas Ordoñez	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	320	9th	2nd
2012	PeCom Racing	Luís Pérez Companc Pierre Kaffer	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	352	9th	3rd
2014	Team Sofrev ASP	Anthony Pons Fabien Barthez	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Am	325	29th	9th

Complete World Touring Car Championship results