Alexandre
Prémat

The Frenchman Alexandre Prémat won the Coupe du Monde de Karting in the 125cc class in 1999 and took the French FC 125cc title in 2000. He moved up from karting into French Formula Campus and finished second there. In 2001 he stepped up to French Formula Renault, ending the year ninth, and he won the championship in 2002. In 2003 he joined ASM in the Formula 3 Euroseries, which had been formed by merging several national championships, and finished seventh. In 2004 he was runner-up with six wins, and he also won the Macau Grand Prix.

In 2005 Prémat joined ART Grand Prix in GP2. Two wins gave him fourth place, while his team-mate Nico Rosberg took the title. In 2006 he finished third with one win, with team-mate Lewis Hamilton becoming champion. In the 2005-06 season he also drove for France in A1 Grand Prix, and together with Nicolas Lapierre he won the title for his country. In Formula One he drove the third Spyker MF1 car at the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix, but he never started a World Championship race. He also tested for the Champ Car team Mi-Jack Conquest Racing and named a seat in that series as his aim for 2007.

In 2007 Prémat raced for Audi in the DTM and also took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans that year. In 2008 he contested the DTM again as well as the Le Mans Series, and in 2009 he was again at the start in Le Mans. In 2011 he won his class in the Nürburgring 24 Hours in a Peugeot RCZ. In 2012 he joined Garry Rogers Motorsport in Australia's V8 Supercars, driving a Holden Commodore. He began 2013 with fourth place at the Adelaide round. In 2014 he drove only the endurance races for the team alongside Scott McLaughlin and finished fifth in the Enduro Cup. In 2015 he was paired with McLaughlin again in the Enduro Cup, with fifth at Bathurst his best result. For 2016 Triple Eight Race Engineering signed him to partner Shane van Gisbergen in the Enduro Cup. The pair won the Enduro Cup, and at the Gold Coast Prémat took his first race victory in the championship. In 2019 he won the Bathurst 1000 with Scott McLaughlin for DJR Team Penske.

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