Alexandre Cougnaud

Alexandre Yannick Guy Jean-Claude Cougnaud (born 5 December 1991) is a French racing driver who competes in the European Le Mans Series with Graff Racing.

Career

Early career Cougnaud, born in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France, began karting in 2002 and raced primarily in his native France country. Having finished sixth in the Formula Kart France series in 2008, he entered the Formul'Academy Euro Series the following year, driving for Signatech; he finished 14th in the championship, with eight points. He and Santiago Urrutia were originally the two drivers chosen to drive a F312 car for Fabio Pampado's team; and they have been joined by Alexander Toril and Sandy Stuvik to compete in the European F3 Open with a Dallara Formula 3 F312 as well.

Cougnaud at Jerez driving for RP Motorsport, his first F3 podium of 2013.

Cougnaud had some difficulties with the set-up of his car at the beginning of the season, especially in bad weather conditions and he also incurred several penalties, like at Silverstone, where he finished fifth in the second race but got a 30-second penalty after the race, so fifth place was for Stern.

Cougnaud had a good result at Jerez where he finished fourth in the first race, and third in the second one.

At Monza, in October, Cougnaud did his best performance of the season in the second race : pole position, a second-place finish and fastest lap. He could not resist to his teammate Sandy Stuvik in the last lap.

Cougnaud had a great finish of the season at Barcelona finishing in third position for the first race and winning the second one (his first victory in Formula 3).

Porsche Carrera Cup France In both 2014 and 2015, Cougnaud raced in the Porsche Carrera Cup France championship. He finished in tenth position the first year and in 12th position the second year.

European Le Mans Series Cougnaud en route to winning the 2016 Road to Le Mans in LMP3. Cougnaud aboard DKR Engineering's LMP2 at the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2016, Cougnaud joined the famous European Le Mans Series (ELMS), a European sports car racing endurance series inspired by the 24 Hours of Le Mans race and run by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO). For his first year in ELMS, he won two races for the Yvan Muller Racing team. The first one being the prestigious Road To Le Mans race and the second one, the last leg of the 2016 championship in Estoril.

In 2017, Cougnaud extended his contract with the Yvan Muller racing team for one year. After two legs, he was in second position of the LMP3 classification with one podium (second position) in Monza.

In 2018, Cougnaud moved to the LMP2 class with Graff Racing in the European Le Mans Series. He continued with Graff in 2019, finishing third in the LMP2 championship with four podiums. In 2020, he took two podiums with the same team. In 2022, he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with DKR Engineering, finishing 18th overall. In 2025, Cougnaud returned to Graff Racing to compete in the European Endurance Prototype Cup, driving a Nova NP02 alongside Loris Kyburz and Chun Ting Chou.

Racing record Career summary

Complete Formula Renault 2.0 Alps 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 Pos Points 2011 ARTA Engineering MNZ1 MNZ2 IMO1 IMO2 PAU1 PAU2 RBR1 RBR2 HUN1 HUN2 LEC1 LEC2 SPA1 SPA2 17th 79

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results (key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap) Year Entrant Class Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 Rank Points 2022 DKR Engineering LMP2 Oreca 07 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 SEB SPA LMS MNZ FUJ BHR -* _*

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps 2022 DKR Engineering Jean Glorieux Laurents Hörr Oreca 07-Gibson LMP2 362 22nd 18th