{"id":33072,"date":"2020-12-06T05:51:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T05:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/simon-pagenaud\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:56:11","slug":"simon-pagenaud","status":"publish","type":"driver","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/simon-pagenaud\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Pagenaud"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n<section class=\"hero hero--small-image\">\n    \n            \n<section class=\"c-site-breadcrumbs site-breadcrumbs proxima \">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <nav class=\"breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/nav>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n    \n    <div class=\"hero__content\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"circular-image\">\n                                            <picture>\n            <source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"\" >\n            <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" alt=\"pagenaud2\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/pagenaud2-200x200.jpg.webp\" srcset=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\n        <\/picture>\n                                    <\/div>\n                        <h1 class=\"hero__title sanomat\"><\/h1>\n                                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"anchor-menu container-no-breakpoints proxima\">\n    <ul>\n                    <li><a href=\"#biography\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Biography<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#championship-seasons\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Championship Seasons<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#non-championship-races\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Non-Championship Races<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#teams\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Teams<\/a><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"biography\">\n            <div class=\"post__item\">\n                <div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-data-box\" data-driver-id=\"33072\"><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n        <aside class=\"sidebar\" data-target=\"ad-container\">\n            <aside class=\"broadcast-space \">\n            <div class=\"broadcast-space__element\" id=\"div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-3\" data-behaviour=\"ad-target\"><\/div>\n    <\/aside>\n        <\/aside>\n    <\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"full-biography\">\n    \n        \n        <section class=\"c-expanding-content expanding-content expanding-content--expandable content-section toggle\">\n            <p>A nearly-man in France\u2019s junior formulae during the 2000s, Simon Pagenaud flourished in North America as a title winner in both open wheel and endurance racing. And he added victory in the blue ribbon Indianapolis 500 to his impressive c.v. in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nearly man during his racing career in France<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pagenaud finished as runner-up in the 2001 Formula Campus series before graduating to Formula Renault with ASM for the following season. Third in the 2002 French Championship, he matched that performance in the Eurocup a year later.<\/p>\n<p>Pagenaud moved to Graff Racing for 2004 and was runner-up once more when beaten by Scott Speed. His 2005 Formula Renault 3.5 campaign with Serge Saulnier\u2019s team was a disappointment so he decided to further his career in North America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Switch to North America and Champ Car debut<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It proved a wise move for Pagenaud narrowly beat Graham Rahal to the 2006 Toyota Atlantic title after winning at Edmonton during a consistent season for Team Australia. Adopted as an honorary Antipodean, he graduated to Champ Cars with the Derrick Walker-run squad in 2007. The once great series was in its last death-throws but Pagenaud acquitted himself with distinction. A regular top-10 qualifier, he finished fourth on three occasions and was eighth overall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Success in Sports Cars<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Champ Cars was absorbed into the rival Indy Racing League at the start of 2008 and the Frenchman was left without a ride. Salvation was at hand in the form of Gil de Ferran\u2019s new Acura-backed team in the American Le Mans Series. Pagenaud and de Ferran were podium finishers during 2008 and race winners a year later \u2013 finishing as runners-up behind David Brabham and Scott Sharp in the 2009 standings.<\/p>\n<p>Pagenaud also joined Peugeot for the 2009 Spa 1000Kms which he won that year and the next. Also in the pole-winning Peugeot 908 HDI for the 2010 Le Mans 24 Hours, it retired before Pagenaud drove in the race. His regular employment during 2010 was with Highcroft Racing as Brabham\u2019s co-driver in the ALMS. Their HPD ARX-01c won three times to clinch the outright championship crown.<\/p>\n<p>A winner in the Le Mans Series once more in 2011, he finished second in the 24-hour race itself when sharing a Peugeot 908 with S\u00e9bastien Bourdais and Pedro Lamy after a furious duel with Audi. He also returned to open-wheel racing that year by starting three IndyCar races for Dreyer &amp; Reinbold and then HVM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IndyCar breakthrough with Schmidt-Hamilton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A full-time member of Schmidt-Hamilton Motorsports in the 2012 IndyCar Series, he finished second at Long Beach on the way to clinching the Rookie of the Year award for the minnows. Pagenaud remained with the single-car team for the following season and impressed by challenging the category\u2019s better funded operations. He won race two on Detroit\u2019s Belle Isle and again on the streets of Baltimore on the way to third in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Further victories followed in the inaugural Indianapolis Grand Prix road race and at Houston as he continued to exceed expectations during 2014. Fifth in the championship at the end of his third and final season with Schmidt-Hamilton, Pagenaud soon signed for Roger Penske\u2019s famous old team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indycar champion for Team Penske<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pagenaud\u2019s first season in Penske\u2019s fourth Dallara-Chevrolet was something of a disappointment. He qualified on pole position at Fontana but third place finishes at Detroit and Mid-Ohio were his best finishes of 2015 as he slipped to 11th in the championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman bounced back in style to clinch the 2016 IndyCar Series crown. Second in the first two races of the season, he then scored a controversial victory at Long Beach when not penalised for crossing the pit exit line. The Frenchman then barged passed Rahal to win at Barber Motorsports Park and completed won his third successive race on Indianapolis\u2019 road course to establish a clear lead in the points. Subsequent victories at Mid-Ohio and in the Sears Point title decider saw Pagenaud edge team-mates Will Power and H\u00e9lio Castroneves in the final points.<\/p>\n<p>He finished as runner-up to Penske team-mate Josef Newgarden in the 2017 championship having won at Phoenix and the Sears\u2019 Point season finale. However, he struggled in qualifying and failed to win a race during 2018 as he slipped to sixth overall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indianapolis 500 winner<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman bounced back from that disappointing campaign by winning three times, including both races at Indianapolis, and finishing as 2019 runner-up behind Penske team-mate Josef Newgarden.<\/p>\n<p>It was wet for the Indianapolis Grand Prix where Pagenaud passed Scott Dixon on the penultimate lap to win an Indycar race for the first time since 2017. On pole for the Indy 500 itself, he held off Andretti Autosport\u2019s Alexander Rossi by 0.2086sec in a grandstand finish to America\u2019s most important race. Qualifying remained inconsistent but he secured back-to-back pole positions at Toronto and Iowa. A dominant winner in Canada, a succession of top ten results saw Pagenaud snatch second overall from Rossi at the final round.<\/p>\n\n                            <div class=\"expanding-content__buttons\">\n                                            <a href=\"#\" class=\"button button--outline button--chevron-down expanding-content__more\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Read full bio<\/a>\n                        <a href=\"#\" class=\"button button--outline button--chevron-up expanding-content__less\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Read Less<\/a>\n                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/section>\n\n                                \n   <\/div>\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding-bottom database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"championship-seasons\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-seasons-table\" data-driver-id=\"\"><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"non-championship-races\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        \n<header class=\"content-header content-header--alt\">\n\n    <h2 class=\"content-header__small-title sanomat u-bold \">\n                Non Championship Races\n    <\/h2>\n\n    <div class=\"content-header__dropdown database-table-collapsible__toggles proxima\">\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__more\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Show<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__less\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Hide<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/header><div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-races-table\" data-driver-id=\"\"><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"teams\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        \n<header class=\"content-header content-header--alt\">\n\n    <h2 class=\"content-header__small-title sanomat u-bold \">\n                Teams\n    <\/h2>\n\n    <div class=\"content-header__dropdown database-table-collapsible__toggles proxima\">\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__more\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Show<\/a>\n        <a href=\"#\" class=\"database-table-collapsible__less\" data-behaviour=\"toggle\">Hide<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/header><div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-teams-table\" data-driver-id=\"\"><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n                            <section class=\"c-broadcast-space content-section block_5fc172d85c387_leaderboardtop div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-1\" data-target=\"ad-container\">\n            <div class=\"container container--full-mobile\">\n                <aside class=\"broadcast-space \">\n            <div class=\"broadcast-space__element\" id=\"div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-1\" data-behaviour=\"ad-target\"><\/div>\n    <\/aside>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/section>\n    \n\n    <section\n        class=\"c-latest-products latest-products content-section\"\n        data-behaviour=\"tag-automation\"\n        data-automation-type=\"related-products\"\n        data-tags=\"[&quot;Simon Pagenaud&quot;]\"\n        data-current-post=\"33072\"><\/section>\n\n\n        <section class=\"c-article-listing article-listing content-section\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n            <header class=\"content-header\">\n    <div class=\"content-header__intro user-content\">\n        <h1 class=\"content-header__title sanomat\">Related articles<\/h1>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"content-header__button\">\n            <a class=\"button button--outline button--full\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\">\n                View all\n            <\/a>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"content-section__inner-content container\">\n            <div class=\"article-grid article-grid--no-ads\">\n                <div class=\"article-grid__wrapper\">\n                    <div class=\"article-grid__nested-grid\">\n                        <div class=\"article-grid__column\">\n                                                            \n\t\n\n<article class=\"article-item \">\n\n\t\n\t\t<a class=\"article-item__link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/articles\/single-seaters\/f1\/mph-still-sandbagging-the-crafty-reason-mercedes-and-ferrari-may-still-be-hiding-true-f1-pace\/\">\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"article-item__image article-item__image--cropped\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<picture>\n            <source type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/George-Russell-and-Lewis-Hamilton-on-track-in-the-2026-F1-Chinese-Grand-Prix-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"253\" width=\"450\" alt=\"MPH: Still sandbagging? 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