Lucas Ordóñez

Lucas Ordóñez Martín-Esperanza (born May 1, 1985) is a Spanish former racecar driver, who entered professional racing by winning a spot in a PlayStation 3 Gran Turismo competition.^[1][2] Racing for Nissan in the 2009 GT4 European Cup season, he secured a podium finish in his first event.^[3] Two race wins towards the end of the season secured him joint second place overall.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ordóñez and the second or maternal family name is Martín-Esperanza.

Lucas Ordóñez
Ordóñez in 2013
Nationality	Spanish
Full name	Lucas Ordóñez Martín-Esperanza
Born	May 1, 1985 (1985-05) (age 39)
Racing licence	FIA Gold
24 Hours of Le Mans career Years 2011–2015 Teams Signatech Nissan, Greaves Motorsport Best finish 9th (2011) Class wins 0

In 2011 he and his team came in 2nd in their class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.^[4]

Ordonez began 2012 by taking the role of lead driver in Nissan's 'all-gamer car' at the Dubai 24 Hours.^[5] The team finished on the podium.^[6] He competed in the European Le Mans Series and Le Mans 24 Hours for Greaves Motorsport.

For the 2012 24 Hours Nürburgring race, driving the #123 car with Kazunori Yamauchi, he finished 1st in the SP 8T class, and 30th overall.^[7]

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2011	Signatech-Nissan	Soheil Ayari Franck Mailleux	Oreca 03-Nissan	LMP2	320	9th	2nd
2012	Greaves Motorsport	Alex Brundle Martin Brundle	Zytek Z11SN-Nissan	LMP2	340	15th	8th
2013	Greaves Motorsport	Michael Krumm Jann Mardenborough	Zytek Z11SN-Nissan	LMP2	327	9th	3rd
2014	Nissan Motorsports Global	Wolfgang Reip Satoshi Motoyama	Nissan ZEOD RC	UNC	5	DNF	DNF
2015	Nissan Motorsports	Tsugio Matsuda Mark Shulzhitskiy	Nissan GT-R LM Nismo	LMP1	115	DNF	DNF

FIA GT Series results

Year	Class	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points
2013	Pro-Am	Nissan GT Academy Team RJN	Nissan	NOG QR 19	NOG CR 7	ZOL QR 18	ZOL CR Ret	ZAN QR 13	ZAN QR 8	SVK QR	SVK CR	NAV QR 13	NAV CR 11	TBA QR	TBA CR	10th	49

* Season still in progress.

Complete Super GT results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	DC	Pts
2013	NDDP Racing	Nissan GT-R GT3	GT300	OKA	FUJ	SEP	SUG	SUZ 9	FUJ	FUJ	AUT	MOT	27th	3
2014	NDDP Racing with B-MAX	Nissan GT-R GT3	GT300	OKA 4	FUJ 5	AUT 4	SUG 9	FUJ 10	SUZ 19	BUR 1	MOT 8		4th	48
2015	Kondo Racing	Nissan GT-R GT500	GT500	OKA 11	FUJ 11	BUR Ret	FUJ	SUZ	SUG	AUT	MOT		NC	0

References

1. "GT Academy kicks off". granturismoworld.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-25.
2. Plunkett, Luke (6 January 2009). "Two Guys Go From Racing Games To Racing Real Cars". Kotaku. Gawker Media. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
3. Hanlon, Mike (6 May 2009). "Lucas Ordoñez – the first virtual-to-real race driver". gizmag.com.
4. Tackie, Penrose (14 June 2011). "GT Academy winner gains podium finish at Le Mans". playstation.com. Retrieved 17 June 2011.
5. Weeks, James (6 January 2012). "Nissan confirm Dubai 24 Hours line-up". motorstv.com. Motors TV. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
6. "GT Academy Winners Earn Podium Finish at Dubai 24H - News - gran-turismo.com". us.gran-turismo.com. January 18, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-02-01. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
7. http://www.24h-rennen.de/uploads/media/24h_RACE_PROVISIONAL_TOTAL.pdf%5B%5D

External links

• Official website
• Lucas Ordóñez career summary at DriverDB.com