Louis Delétraz

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Louis Delétraz
2021 4 Hours of Barcelona Podium Delétraz.jpg
Delétraz after winning the 4 Hours of Barcelona in 2021
NationalitySwitzerland Swiss
Born (1997-04-22) 22 April 1997 (age 24)
Geneva, Switzerland
Related toJean-Denis Délétraz (father)
FIA Formula 2 Championship career
Debut season2017
Car number11
Former teamsCarlin
Rapax
Racing Engineering
Charouz Racing System
Starts92 (94 entries)
Wins0
Podiums10
Poles0
Fastest laps1
Best finish8th in 2019, 2020
Previous series
2016
2015-16
2014-15
2013–15
2012		GP2 Series
Formula V8 3.5
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0
Formula Renault 2.0 NEC
Formula BMW Talent Cup
Championship titles
2015
2021		Formula Renault 2.0 NEC
European Le Mans Series - LMP2

Louis Delétraz (born 22 April 1997) is a Swiss racing driver currently competing in European Le Mans for Team WRT. He is the son of former Formula One and Le Mans 24 Hours driver Jean-Denis Delétraz.[1]

Career[]

Karting[]

Delétraz began karting in his native Switzerland 2008, winning the Vega Trofeo Super Mini class the following year.[2] Third-place finishes followed in the KF3 Bridgestone Cup Switzerland and Vega Trofeo Junior categories in 2010 before winning the latter championship in 2011.[3]

Formula BMW Talent Cup[]

Delétraz began his single-seater career in September 2012, racing in the Grand Final of the Formula BMW Talent Cup season, held at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben in Germany. He started each of the three races from Pole position, winning the second race of the event.[4] In the final race of the weekend, Delétraz collided with fellow Swiss driver Ralph Boschung with both drivers retiring from the race. He was subsequently excluded from the event following an incident in the pit lane after the race.[5]

Formula Renault 2.0[]

Delétraz graduated to Formula Renault for 2013, racing in the Formula Renault 2.0 NEC championship with Josef Kaufmann Racing.[6] He finished the season in 19th place in the championship,[7] with a best race result of fifth coming in the second race of the Silverstone meeting.

Delétraz continued with the team for a second FR2.0 NEC season in 2014.[8] After winning the opening race of the season at Monza,[9] he took a further four podium positions to finish runner-up in the championship, sixteen points behind Fortec Motorsports Ben Barnicoat.[10] During the year, Delétraz also made his debut in the Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 championship, taking part in the rounds at Spa-Francorchamps, Nürburgring and Paul Ricard as a guest driver.[11]

In 2015, Delétraz stayed with Josef Kaufmann Racing for a third season, racing a dual campaign in both Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 and Formula Renault 2.0 NEC.[12] He won the Formula Renault NEC while he finished in the top3 in Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0.[13]

In April 2015, Delétraz was announced as one of the four drivers selected to join the BMW Motorsport Junior Programme for 2015. As part of the initiative, he is due to contest three races of the Veranstaltergemeinschaft Langstreckenpokal Nürburgring series (VLN) for the manufacturer.[14]

Formula Renault 3.5 Series/Formula V8 3.5[]

Delétraz made his debut in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series at the fifth round of the 2015 season at the Red Bull Ring, driving for the returning Comtec Racing team.[15] He graduated to the series full time with Fortec in 2016, finishing runner-up in the standings.

GP2 Series[]

On 18 November 2016, it was announced that Delétraz would make his debut in the final round of the 2016 season with Carlin.[16] He finished twenty sixth in the overall standings with no points.

FIA Formula 2 Championship[]

In December 2016, after partaking in post-season testing with them, Delétraz signed to race full-time with Racing Engineering in 2017 alongside Gustav Malja.[17] For 2018 Delétraz moved to Charouz Racing System alongside ex Ferrari Driver Academy driver Antonio Fuoco. In 2019 Delétraz moved to reigning teams champion Carlin with Honda junior driver Nobuharu Matsushita. He finished the season 8th in the standings with a best result of 2nd in both the Monaco and Silverstone sprint races. For 2020, Deletraz returned to Charouz alongside Pedro Piquet.[18]

Formula One[]

In February 2016, Deletraz was confirmed as a member of Renault's young driver program.

In November 2018 it was announced that Delétraz would make his Formula One test debut with Haas F1 Team at the end-of-year Young Driver Test in Abu Dhabi.[19] He completed 117 laps in the second day of the 2 day test.[20][21]

In May 2019 it was announced that Delétraz would join Haas F1 Team as simulator driver for the remainder of the 2019 season.[22]

Endurance Racing[]

Deletraz competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual and won it with Rebellion Williams eSports, driving the Oreca 07 in the LMP category.[23]

Karting record[]

Karting career summary[]

Season Series Team Position
2008 Swiss Championship — Super Mini NC
2009 Vega Trofeo — Super Mini JD Racing Team 1st
2010 Bridgestone Cup Switzerland — KF3 JD Racing Team 3rd
Vega Trofeo — Junior 3rd
2011 South Garda Winter Cup — KF3 JD Racing Team NC
Bridgestone Cup Switzerland — KF3 5th
Vega Trofeo — Junior 1st
Bridgestone Cup European Final — KF3 35th
Grand Prix Open Karting — KF3 22nd

Racing record[]

Racing career summary[]

Season Series Team Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position
2012 Formula BMW Talent Cup N/A 3 1 3 1 2 40 4th
2013 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Josef Kaufmann Racing 16 0 0 0 0 77 19th
2014 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Josef Kaufmann Racing 15 1 1 0 5 242 2nd
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 AVF 4 0 0 0 0 0 NC†
Josef Kaufmann Racing 2 0 0 0 0
2015 Formula Renault 2.0 NEC Josef Kaufmann Racing 16 9 12 8 12 378 1st
Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 17 3 5 3 5 193 2nd
Formula Renault 3.5 Series Comtec Racing 2 0 0 0 0 0 29th
2016 Formula V8 3.5 Series Fortec Motorsports 18 2 3 5 9 230 2nd
ADAC GT Masters Schubert Motorsport 8 0 0 0 0 14 36th
GP2 Series Carlin 2 0 0 0 0 0 26th
2017 FIA Formula 2 Championship Racing Engineering 14 0 0 0 0 16 17th
Rapax 8 0 0 0 0
2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship Charouz Racing System 24 0 0 0 2 74 10th
Formula One Haas F1 Team Test driver
2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship Carlin 22 0 0 0 3 92 8th
Formula One Haas F1 Team Development driver
2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship Charouz Racing System 24 0 0 2 5 134 8th
GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup GPX Racing 3 0 0 0 0 2 32nd
24 Hours of Le Mans Rebellion Racing 1 0 0 0 0 N/A 4th
Formula One Haas F1 Team Test/Reserve driver
2021 European Le Mans Series Team WRT 6 3 0 0 4 118 1st
FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2 Inter Europol Competition 1 0 0 0 0 15 20th

† As Delétraz was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup results[]

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

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 DC Points
2013 Josef Kaufmann Racing HOC
1
25 		HOC
2
29 		HOC
3
19 		NÜR
1
Ret 		NÜR
2
14 		SIL
1
Ret 		SIL
2
5 		SPA
1
21 		SPA
2
11 		ASS
1
11 		ASS
2
9 		MST
1
24 		MST
2
16 		MST
3
13 		ZAN
1
18 		ZAN
2
17 		ZAN
3
C 		19th 77
2014 Josef Kaufmann Racing MNZ
1
1 		MNZ
2
2 		SIL
1
13 		SIL
2
21 		HOC
1
4 		HOC
2
6 		HOC
3
8 		SPA
1
3 		SPA
2
2 		ASS
1
8 		ASS
2
3 		MST
1
4 		MST
2
10 		MST
3
C 		NÜR
1
7 		NÜR
2
5 		NÜR
3
C 		2nd 242
2015 Josef Kaufmann Racing MNZ
1
14 		MNZ
2
1 		SIL
1
1 		SIL
2
1 		RBR
1
2 		RBR
2
2 		RBR
3
1 		SPA
1
4 		SPA
2
1 		ASS
1
5 		ASS
2
1 		NÜR
1
2 		NÜR
2
10 		HOC
1
1 		HOC
2
1 		HOC
3
1 		1st 378

Complete Formula V8 3.5 Series results[]

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

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Pos Points
2015 Comtec Racing ALC
1 		ALC
2 		MON
1 		SPA
1 		SPA
2 		HUN
1 		HUN
2 		RBR
1
15 		RBR
2
Ret 		SIL
1 		SIL
2 		NÜR
1 		NÜR
2 		BUG
1 		BUG
2 		JER
1 		JER
2 		29th 0
2016 Fortec Motorsports ALC
1
1 		ALC
2
5 		HUN
1
3 		HUN
2
4 		SPA
1
3 		SPA
2
Ret 		LEC
1
6 		LEC
2
1 		SIL
1
10 		SIL
2
6 		RBR
1
2 		RBR
2
4 		MNZ
1
2 		MNZ
2
3 		JER
1
12 		JER
2
2 		CAT
1
2 		CAT
2
4 		2nd 230

Complete 24 Hours of Zolder results[]

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2015 Germany Walkenhorst Motorsport United States Trent Hindman
Sweden Victor Bouveng
Germany Dirk Adorf 		BMW M235i Racing Cup T7 710 15th 7th

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 22 DC Points
2016 Carlin CAT
FEA 		CAT
SPR 		MON
FEA 		MON
SPR 		BAK
FEA 		BAK
SPR 		RBR
FEA 		RBR
SPR 		SIL
FEA 		SIL
SPR 		HUN
FEA 		HUN
SPR 		HOC
FEA 		HOC
SPR 		SPA
FEA 		SPA
SPR 		MNZ
FEA 		MNZ
SPR 		SEP
FEA 		SEP
SPR 		YMC
FEA
Ret 		YMC
SPR
17 		26th 0

Complete FIA Formula 2 Championship results[]

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate points for the fastest lap of top ten finishers)

Year Entrant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 DC Points
2017 Racing Engineering BHR
FEA
20 		BHR
SPR
12 		CAT
FEA
11 		CAT
SPR
14 		MON
FEA
14 		MON
SPR
16 		BAK
FEA
Ret 		BAK
SPR
16 		RBR
FEA
17 		RBR
SPR
13 		SIL
FEA
12 		SIL
SPR
13 		HUN
FEA
10 		HUN
SPR
12 		17th 16
Rapax SPA
FEA
14 		SPA
SPR
12 		MNZ
FEA
7 		MNZ
SPR
4 		JER
FEA
17 		JER
SPR
12 		YMC
FEA
10 		YMC
SPR
Ret
2018 Charouz Racing System BHR
FEA
13 		BHR
SPR
9 		BAK
FEA
Ret 		BAK
SPR
10 		CAT
FEA
Ret 		CAT
SPR
10 		MON
FEA
4 		MON
SPR
2 		LEC
FEA
6 		LEC
SPR
2 		RBR
FEA
Ret 		RBR
SPR
Ret 		SIL
FEA
4 		SIL
SPR
5 		HUN
FEA
17 		HUN
SPR
9 		SPA
FEA
18 		SPA
SPR
13 		MNZ
FEA
13 		MNZ
SPR
11 		SOC
FEA
12 		SOC
SPR
13 		YMC
FEA
6 		YMC
SPR
6 		10th 74
2019 Carlin BHR
FEA
5 		BHR
SPR
5 		BAK
FEA
Ret 		BAK
SPR
Ret 		CAT
FEA
12 		CAT
SPR
11 		MON
FEA
7 		MON
SPR
2 		LEC
FEA
NC 		LEC
SPR
7 		RBR
FEA
7 		RBR
SPR
Ret 		SIL
FEA
7 		SIL
SPR
2 		HUN
FEA
Ret 		HUN
SPR
13 		SPA
FEA
C 		SPA
SPR
C 		MNZ
FEA
Ret 		MNZ
SPR
8 		SOC
FEA
3 		SOC
SPR
14 		YMC
FEA
4 		YMC
SPR
6 		8th 92
2020 Charouz Racing System RBR
FEA
7 		RBR
SPR
2 		RBR
FEA
19 		RBR
SPR
12 		HUN
FEA
7 		HUN
SPR
6 		SIL
FEA
6 		SIL
SPR
3 		SIL
FEA
5 		SIL
SPR
4 		CAT
FEA
10 		CAT
SPR
9 		SPA
FEA
4 		SPA
SPR
6 		MNZ
FEA
8 		MNZ
SPR
4 		MUG
FEA
3 		MUG
SPR
2 		SOC
FEA
18 		SOC
SPR
17 		BHR
FEA
16 		BHR
SPR
3 		BHR
FEA
12 		BHR
SPR
13 		8th 134

* Season still in progress.

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results[]

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2020 Switzerland Rebellion Racing France Nathanaël Berthon
France Romain Dumas 		Rebellion R13-Gibson LMP1 381 4th 4th
2021 Belgium Team WRT Poland Robert Kubica
China Ye Yifei 		Oreca 07-Gibson LMP2 362 NC NC

Complete European Le Mans Series results[]

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

Year Entrant Class Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rank Points
2021 Team WRT LMP2 Oreca 07 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 CAT
1 		RBR
1 		LEC
5 		MNZ
4 		SPA
1 		ALG
2 		1st 118

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results[]

Year Entrant Class Car Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rank Points
2021 Inter Europol Competition LMP2 Oreca 07 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 SPA ALG
5 		MNZ LMS BHR BHR 20th 15

References[]

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