Soheil Ayari

Soheil Ayari

Nationality	France
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	1997, 1999, 2003 - 2005, 2007 -
Teams	Viper Team Oreca, Pescarolo Sport, Team Oreca
Best finish	4th (2004, 2010)
Class wins	0

Ayari driving the Oreca 01 during the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Soheil Ayari (born 5 April 1970) is a French 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 Winston 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.

Soheil Ayari is also a famous 24 Hours of Le Mans driver with 9 starts in GT 1 and LMP1. Best results were 4th in 2004 ((Pescarolo)) & 2010 (ORECA 01)), 5th in 2009 ((ORECA))

In 2011, he drives a Signatech Nissan in ILMC on an ORECA LMP 2 prototype.

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
	WRT Racing									HUN 13	SPA 14

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1997	GT2	62	M	Chrysler Viper GTS-R Chrysler 8.0L V10	Viper Team Oreca	Tommy Archer Marc Duez	76	DNF	DNF
1999	GTS	53	M	Chrysler Viper GTS-R Chrysler 8.0L V10	Viper Team Oreca	David Donohue Jean-Philippe Belloc	271	DNF	DNF
2003	LMP900	18	M	Courage C60 Peugeot 3.2L Turbo V6	Pescarolo Sport	Eric Hélary Nicolas Minassian	352	9th	7th
2004	LMP1	18	M	Pescarolo C60 Judd GV5 5.0L V10	Pescarolo Sport	Érik Comas Benoît Tréluyer	361	4th	4th
2005	LMP1	17	M	Pescarolo C60 Hybrid Judd GV5 5.0L V10	Pescarolo Sport	Eric Hélary Sébastien Loeb	288	DNF	DNF
2007	GT1	55	M	Saleen S7-R Ford 7.0L V8	Team Oreca	Stéphane Ortelli Nicolas Lapierre	318	16th	9th
2008	LMP1	5	M	Courage-Oreca LC70 Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5L V10	Team Oreca-Matmut	Loïc Duval Laurent Groppi	357	8th	8th
2009	LMP1	11	M	Oreca 01 AIM (Judd) YS5.5 5.5L V10	Team Oreca Matmut AIM	Olivier Panis Nicolas Lapierre	370	5th	5th
2010	LMP1	6	M	Oreca 01 AIM (Judd) YS5.5 5.5L V10	AIM Team Oreca Matmut	Didier André Andy Meyrick	369	4th	4th
2011	LMP2	26	D	Oreca 03 Nissan VK45DE 4.5L V8	Signatech Nissan	Franck Mailleux Lucas Ordoñez	320	9th	2nd

External links

http://www.ayari.com/

• Profile on Historic Racing

Sporting positions
Preceded by Laurent Rédon	French Formula Three Champion 1996	Succeeded by Patrice Gay
Preceded by Ralph Firman	Macau Grand Prix Winner 1997	Succeeded by Peter Dumbreck
Preceded by Jean-Philippe Dayraut	French Touring Car Champion 2002	Succeeded by Christophe Bouchut
Preceded by Christophe Bouchut	French Touring Car Champion 2004-2005	Succeeded by None
Preceded by Olivier Thévenin Patrick Bornhauser	FFSA GT Champion 2006 with: (Bruno Hernandez)	Succeeded by Soheil Ayari Raymond Narac
Preceded by Soheil Ayari Bruno Hernandez	FFSA GT Champion 2007 with: (Raymond Narac)	Succeeded by Christophe Bouchut Patrick Bornhauser