Grégoire Saucy
Swiss racing driver From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Swiss racing driver From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grégoire Saucy (French pronunciation: [ɡʁe.ɡwaʁ so.si]; born 26 December 1999) is a Swiss racing driver and the champion of the 2021 Formula Regional European Championship.[1] He currently competes in the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship with United Autosports and the European Le Mans Series with TDS Racing. He raced with ART Grand Prix in the FIA Formula 3 Championship in 2022 and 2023.
| Grégoire Saucy | |
|---|---|
 Saucy in 2022 | |
| Nationality |  Swiss |
| Born | 26 December 1999 Bassecourt, Switzerland |
| WEC career | |
| Debut season | 2024 |
| Current team | United Autosports |
| Racing licence |  FIA Gold |
| Car number | 59 |
| Starts | 6 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Poles | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Best finish | TBD in 2024 |
| Previous series | |
| 2022–2023 2021 2020 2017, 2019–2020 2018–2019 2017–2019 2016 | FIA Formula 3 Championship FR European Championship Toyota Racing Series Formula Renault Eurocup ADAC F4 Championship Italian F4 Championship V de V Challenge Monoplace |
| Championship titles | |
| 2021 | FR European Championship |
Saucy's first year in single seaters was in 2016 when he drove RC Formula and later GSK Grand Prix in the V de V Challenge Monoplace. The three podiums Saucy scored on his way to fourth in the championship were all second places in the three races at Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours.[2]
Jenzer Motorsport signed Saucy to race for them 2017 as a guest driver in the Italian F4 Championship. In the six races he partook in, Saucy finished in points scoring positions twice both at Mugello Circuit.
Saucy raced his first season in ADAC Formula 4 in 2018 where he raced as a guest driver for Jenzer Motorsport like he did the year previously in the Italian F4 championship.[3] In the two races he raced he finished 11th and fifth.
Saucy once again raced for Jenzer in Italian F4 until the final race of the season where he made the switch to the French team R-ace GP, his best result was fifth while he also scored a double pole position at round 3 in Monza.
In 2019 he raced for R-ace GP where he finished on the podium twice. Saucy ended the season in ninth, 28 points behind his Russian teammate Michael Belov.[4]
Following on from the last race of 2018, Saucy drove for R-ace GP again in Italian F4 where he finished the season in 15th while only competing in three rounds.[5]
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Saucy's first year in Formula Renault was in 2017 when he raced for AVF by Adrián Vallés.[6]
Saucy raced in the final two rounds in the 2019 Formula Renault Eurocup season for R-ace GP where he finished 5th in his first race and 12th in the next 3.
In 2020 Saucy raced for ART Grand Prix alongside Paul Aron and Victor Martins, where he came seventh in the standings, having finished on the podium on two occasions.[7]
At the beginning of 2020, Saucy signed up to drive in the Toyota Racing Series with Giles Motorsport.[8] Securing two second places in the campaign, he placed sixth in the standings.[9]
For 2021, Saucy remained with ART Grand Prix competing in the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine, the merger of the Formula Renault Eurocup and the Formula Regional European Championship. His teammates are Gabriele Minì and Thomas ten Brinke.[10] He started the season off in a dominant fashion, winning the second race of the season at Imola and following that up with two victories in Barcelona.[11][12] After a point-less round in Monaco and a disqualification from the lead in France, courtesy of a part having been reassembled in the wrong direction following post-race scrutineering, he returned to winning ways in the second race at Paul Ricard.[13][14][15] The Swiss driver dominated the next weekend at the Zandvoort Circuit with two pole positions and two race wins.[16][17] Saucy started the first race at Spa-Francorchamps in 24th courtesy of a mixed-up qualifying session, but he was able to fight back to eighth by the checkered flag.[18] He started the second race from pole and achieved his seventh victory of the season.[19] In the seventh round of the campaign Saucy once again scored a race win, this time inheriting the top step of the podium after a penalty was handed to initial winner Franco Colapinto for track limit breaches.[20] Saucy scored his first podium that was not a win in the next round, coming third in race 2 in Valencia, and went into the penultimate round with a 78-point gap on his closest rival Hadrien David.[21] He then finished the first race at Mugello in fifth place, and with his French adversary ending up 23rd, Saucy was crowned champion with three races left to go.[1] Saucy ended the season with a total of eight victories, eight podiums, 277 points and ten podiums, meaning that he stood on the podium after precisely half of all races.
In November 2021 Saucy partook in the post-season test of the FIA Formula 3 Championship with ART Grand Prix, partnering Victor Martins and Juan Manuel Correa.[22][23] A few days after the test he was announced by ART to be one of the team's drivers for the 2022 season.[24] He qualified fourth on his debut, beating both his teammates.[25] After starting out the season with a retirement caused by a collision with teammate Martins, in which the Swiss was given a grid drop,[26] Saucy scored his first podium in the category in the feature race in Sakhir.[27] At the next round in Imola, the Swiss driver was on course for another third place, before being taken out by Ollie Bearman on the final lap.[28] From there, Saucy experienced a drop in performances, having to wait until the sprint race in Hungary for his next points.[29] He followed that up with an inconsistent end to the season, which included points finishes in Zandvoort and Monza, but also a pair of retirements, after which he stated that his results masked the underlying pace him and the team had.[30] Saucy ended his season 15th in the standings, finishing behind his teammates Martins and Correa.[31]
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In November 2022 ART Grand Prix announced Saucy would remain with the team for the 2023 season, where he would partner Kaylen Frederick and Nikola Tsolov.[32] Qualifying third for the Bahrain round,[33] he began the season with fourth in the feature race, and then improved to qualify on the front row in Melbourne.[34] He would then convert it into his first podium of the year, remaining in second and marking him as a title contender.[35][36] Another podium followed in the Monaco sprint race, despite been penalised from reverse pole.[37][38] However, he suffered similar fortunes to the year before, only securing three more points finishes throughout the season. This was interrupted with a pole position in Austria,[39] but was unable to capitalise after sustaining a puncture in the battle for the lead.[40] His season, being plagued by numerous unlucky incidents, saw Saucy only 14th in the standings with 54 points, albeit the highest placed ART driver.[41]
Saucy joined MP Motorsport for the final post-season testing in Imola.[42]
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After two disappointing seasons in FIA Formula 3, Saucy made the transition to endurance racing, racing for United Autosports in the 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship in the LMGT3 category.[43]
That year, Saucy also teamed up with prototype stalwart Mathias Beche and bronze-ranked Rodrigo Sales in the LMP2 Pro-Am class of the European Le Mans Series with Richard Mille by TDS.[44] Following a Pro-Am podium at the season-opener in Barcelona, Saucy and his teammates would go on to win at Le Castellet.[45][46]
In May 2024, Saucy was chosen by the NEOM McLaren Formula E Team to partake in the Berlin rookie test.[47]
| Season | Series | Team | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Swiss Romand Championship — Mini | 6th | |
| 2013 | Swiss Championship — KF3 | JD Racing | NC |
† As Saucy was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points. * Season still in progress.
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
(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 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | AVF by Adrián Vallés | MNZ 1 12 |
MNZ 2 12 |
SIL 1 Ret |
SIL 2 DNS |
PAU 1 DNS |
PAU 2 DNS |
MON 1 20 |
MON 2 DNS |
HUN 1 |
HUN 2 |
HUN 3 |
NÜR 1 |
NÜR 2 |
RBR 1 |
RBR 2 |
LEC 1 |
LEC 2 |
SPA 1 |
SPA 2 |
SPA 3 |
CAT 1 |
CAT 2 |
CAT 3 |
26th | 0 |
| 2019 | R-ace GP | MNZ 1 |
MNZ 2 |
SIL 1 |
SIL 2 |
MON 1 |
MON 2 |
LEC 1 |
LEC 2 |
SPA 1 |
SPA 2 |
NÜR 1 |
NÜR 2 |
HUN 1 |
HUN 2 |
CAT 1 |
CAT 2 |
HOC 1 5 |
HOC 2 12 |
YMC 1 12 |
YMC 2 12 |
NC† | 0 | |||
| 2020 | ART Grand Prix | MNZ 1 11 |
MNZ 2 8 |
IMO 1 14 |
IMO 2 13 |
NÜR 1 4 |
NÜR 2 3 |
MAG 1 4 |
MAG 2 6 |
ZAN 1 10 |
ZAN 2 8 |
CAT 1 4 |
CAT 2 Ret |
SPA 1 11‡ |
SPA 2 3 |
IMO 1 Ret |
IMO 2 7 |
HOC 1 Ret |
HOC 2 Ret |
LEC 1 7 |
LEC 2 15 |
7th | 95.5 |
† As Saucy was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
‡ Half points awarded as less than 75% of race distance was completed.
(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 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Jenzer Motorsport | MIS 1 |
MIS 2 |
MIS 3 |
ADR 1 |
ADR 2 |
ADR 3 |
VLL 1 |
VLL 2 |
VLL 3 |
MUG1 1 |
MUG1 2 |
MUG1 3 |
IMO 1 12 |
IMO 2 15 |
IMO 3 13 |
MUG2 1 10 |
MUG2 2 7 |
MUG2 3 12 |
MNZ 1 |
MNZ 2 |
MNZ 3 |
NC† | 7 | |
| 2018 | Jenzer Motorsport | ADR 1 12 |
ADR 2 5 |
ADR 3 5 |
LEC 1 Ret |
LEC 2 9 |
LEC 3 10 |
MNZ 1 9 |
MNZ 2 19 |
MNZ 3 Ret |
MIS 1 9 |
MIS 2 7 |
MIS 3 23 |
IMO 1 11 |
IMO 2 27 |
IMO 3 5 |
VLL 1 13 |
VLL 2 6 |
VLL 3 8 |
11th | 63 | ||||
| R-ace GP | MUG 1 Ret |
MUG 2 6 |
MUG 3 22 |
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| 2019 | R-ace GP | VLL 1 20 |
VLL 2 Ret |
VLL 3 5 |
MIS 1 |
MIS 2 |
MIS 3 |
HUN 1 31 |
HUN 2 14 |
HUN 3 14 |
RBR 1 8 |
RBR 2 4 |
RBR 3 9 |
IMO 1 |
IMO 2 |
IMO 3 |
IMO 4 |
MUG 1 |
MUG 2 |
MUG 3 |
MNZ 1 |
MNZ 2 |
MNZ 3 |
15th | 28 |
† As Saucy was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
(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 | 19 | 20 | Pos | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Jenzer Motorsport | OSC 1 |
OSC 2 |
OSC 3 |
HOC1 1 |
HOC1 2 |
HOC1 3 |
LAU 1 |
LAU 2 |
LAU 3 |
RBR 1 |
RBR 2 |
RBR 3 |
HOC2 1 11 |
HOC2 2 5 |
NÜR 1 |
NÜR 2 |
NÜR 3 |
HOC3 1 |
HOC3 2 |
HOC3 3 |
NC† | 0 |
| 2019 | R-ace GP | OSC 1 13 |
OSC 2 6 |
OSC 3 6 |
RBR 1 16 |
RBR 2 16 |
RBR 3 10 |
HOC 1 19 |
HOC 2 10 |
ZAN 1 7 |
ZAN 2 6 |
ZAN 3 3 |
NÜR 1 9 |
NÜR 2 12 |
NÜR 3 9 |
HOC 1 5 |
HOC 2 11 |
HOC 3 10 |
SAC 1 3 |
SAC 2 4 |
SAC 3 Ret |
9th | 95 |
† As Saucy was a guest driver, he was ineligible for points.
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
(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 | DC | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | ART Grand Prix | BHR SPR Ret |
BHR FEA 3 |
IMO SPR Ret |
IMO FEA 23† |
CAT SPR 11 |
CAT FEA 11 |
SIL SPR 18 |
SIL FEA 25 |
RBR SPR 11 |
RBR FEA 14 |
HUN SPR 7 |
HUN FEA 11 |
SPA SPR 12 |
SPA FEA Ret |
ZAN SPR 5 |
ZAN FEA Ret |
MNZ SPR 6 |
MNZ FEA 28† |
15th | 30 |
| 2023 | ART Grand Prix | BHR SPR 7 |
BHR FEA 4 |
MEL SPR 8 |
MEL FEA 2 |
MON SPR 3 |
MON FEA 10 |
CAT SPR 23 |
CAT FEA 27 |
RBR SPR 20 |
RBR FEA 27 |
SIL SPR 21 |
SIL FEA 9 |
HUN SPR 9 |
HUN FEA 15 |
SPA SPR 10 |
SPA FEA 20 |
MNZ SPR 22 |
MNZ FEA Ret |
14th | 54 |
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)
* Season still in progress.
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)
* Season still in progress.
| Year | Team | Co-Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Pos. | Class Pos. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 |  United Autosports |
 Nicolas Costa James Cottingham |
McLaren 720S GT3 Evo | LMGT3 | 220 | DNF | DNF |
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