Frédéric Johais

Frédéric Michel Henry Johais (born 15 September 1980, in Tours, France) is a French racing driver. He has worked in the Las Vegas-based racing school, Exotics Racing, since 2013.

Racing career Johais raced in karting from 1991 to 1999, reaching a world-class level in the Karting World Championship in 1999, while he was racing alongside Fernando Alonso, Kimi Räikkönen and Heikki Kovalainen.

2000 In 2000, Johais made his start in auto racing through the Citroën Saxo Cup. Despite a crash at the start of his second race in Nogaro, he finished 11th overall (5th in Junior) and was named Rookie of the Year.

In 2001, Frederic competed in the Citroen Saxo Cup and the French Formula Renault 2000 Championship, sharing the car with Patrick Pilet. In the Saxo Cup, he finished third overall after winning one race, and picked up the title in the Junior Category. In Formula Renault, he had a rough season with a small budget and saw his best result in Estoril at the Renault International Finals (15th). He later stopped the season despite leading the championship in points. A few months later, Jacky Foulatier invited him to join the Kart Mag Racing Team to finish the season in the go-kart category, finishing 5th at the Le Mans (24 hours) race and third at the ROK Cup World Final in Lonato (Italy).

Johais then moved to the US and raced in Super Late Model, finishing 5th in Las Vegas in 2013, and in the new EXR Series Championship finishing second in COTA (Austin, Texas) in 2016. In 2015, he also came very close to winning the SKUSA Supernats in Las Vegas, starting from the first row in the final, but he had been pushed in the barriers at the start.

Johais raced in the 2017 GT4 European Series Southern Cup on a BMW M4 for the BMW Team France alongside Julien Piguet, taking back-to-back victories at Magny-Cours in September.