Romain Dumas

Dumas at the 2008 Petit Le Mans
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2001 - 2002, 2004 - 2005, 2007 -
Teams	Freisinger Motorsport, IMSA Performance, Pescarolo Sport, Audi Sport Team Joest, Porsche Motorsport
Best finish	1st (2010)
Class wins	1 (2010)

Romain Dumas (born 14 December 1977 in Alès) is a French racing driver.

Dumas started karting in 1992, in 1996 he competed in the French Formula Renault Championship. In 1998, he joined the French Formula 3 Championship.

He tested a Formula 3000 car for Oreca in 1999 and a Renault F1 in 2002. In 2004 he tested a Conquest Racing Champ Car, but he never raced in any of these formulas.

In 2001 and 2002 he competed in Euro Formula 3000.

Since 2001 he has participated in every 24 Hours of Le Mans race and since 2004 he has competed in American Le Mans Series. He is currently a Porsche factory driver for Penske Racing, and also driven in the FIA GT Championship.

In 2007 he won first overall in the 24 Hours Nürburgring, 1st American Le Mans Series (LMP2 Class - Penske Porsche RS Spyder with 8 wins, 4 pole positions), 3rd Le Mans 24 Hours (LMP1 Class - Pescarolo Sport, 5th 1000 km Valencia LMS (LMP1 Class - Pescarolo Sport ), 4 races VLN championship with Manthey Racing (2 wins, 1 pole position), 18th Daytona 24H (12th DP)

He started 2008 with the P2 class and overall win at the 2008 12 Hours of Sebring in the Penske Porsche RS Spyder.

As of 2009 Roger Penske lost sponsorship for the sports car program, and Dumas and Penske regular Timo Bernhard race on loan to the Audi Sport Team Joest for the 24 hours of Le Mans, finishing 17 overall and 13 in class in the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans

Dumas, together with Timo Bernhard and Mike Rockenfeller won the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans in an Audi R15 TDI plus.^[1] He also won the 2010 24 Hours of Spa in a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR.^[2] Dumas will partner Klaus Graf in the CytoSport Porsche RS Spyder at the ALMS event at Mosport.^[3]

24 Hours of Le Mans results[link]

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2001	GT	77	Y	Porsche 911 GT3-RS Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	Freisinger Motorsport	Gunnar Jeannette Philippe Haezebrouck	282	7th	2nd
2002	GT	80	D	Porsche 911 GT3-RS Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	Freisinger Motorsport	Sascha Maassen Jörg Bergmeister	321	17th	2nd
2003	LMP900	14	G	Reynard 01Q Cosworth XDE 2.7L Turbo V8 (Bioethanol)	Team Nasamax McNeil Engineering	Robbie Sterling Werner Lupberger	138	DNF	DNF
2004	GT	85	D	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	Freisinger Motorsport	Stéphane Ortelli Ralf Kelleners	321	13th	3rd
2005	GT2	76	M	Porsche 911 GT3-RS Porsche 3.6L Flat-6	IMSA Performance	Raymond Narac Sébastien Dumez	322	15th	4th
2006	GT2	76	M	Porsche 911 GT3-RSR Porsche 3.8L Flat-6	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Luca Riccitelli	211	DNF	DNF
2007	LMP1	16	M	Pescarolo 01 Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5L V10	Pescarolo Sport	Emmanuel Collard Jean-Christophe Boullion	358	3rd	3rd
2008	LMP1	16	M	Pescarolo 01 Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5L V10	Pescarolo Sport	Emmanuel Collard Jean-Christophe Boullion	238	DNF	DNF
2009	LMP1	3	M	Audi R15 TDI Audi TDI 5.5L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	Audi Sport Team Joest	Timo Bernhard Alexandre Prémat	333	17th	13th
2010	LMP1	9	M	Audi R15 TDI plus Audi TDI 5.5L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	Audi Sport North America	Mike Rockenfeller Timo Bernhard	397	1st	1st
2011	LMP1	1	M	Audi R18 TDI Audi TDI 3.7L Turbo V6 (Diesel)	Audi Sport Team Joest	Timo Bernhard Mike Rockenfeller	116	DNF	DNF

References[link]

External links[link]

• Personal website
• Personal mobile website
• Fan Club website