| Benoît Tréluyer | ||
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| File:Benoit Treluyer.png | ||
| Driver Details | ||
| Nationality |  French
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| P.o.B. | Alençon, Orne, France
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| D.o.B. | 7 December 1976 | |
| Début |  2020 Zolder II Race 1
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| Best | 17th (2020) | |
| Previous Teams |  Audi Sport Team Phoenix
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| DTM Career | ||
| Total Entries | 0 (0 Starts) | |
| No. | 19 | |
| Wins | Points | Poles |
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fastest Laps | 0 | |
| Podiums | 0 | |
Benoît Tréluyer (born 7 December 1976 in Alençon, Orne, France) is a French racing driver, who competed in two races of the 2020 DMSB Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship for Audi Sport Team Phoenix.[1] A factory Audi driver and multiple winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Tréluyer made his DTM cameo at the penultimate round of the season, standing in for Loïc Duval at the second Zolder meeting.[1]
Prior to his DTM cameo, Tréluyer would represent Audi in the non-Championship Super GT x DTM Dream Races at the end of the 2019 season.[2]
Background[]
Tréluyer's career began with a split in the French youth's attentions, as Tréluyer competed in both karting and motocross in his formative years.[3] In 1995 Tréluyer committed to a career in the former, joining the French Formula Renault Campus series as his first single-seater campaign.[3] Finishing eleventh Tréluyer would move into the full French Formula Renault series in 1996, going on to claim one win in two seasons in French Formula Renault.[3]
Japanese Jousts: 1998 - 2011[]
For 1998 Tréluyer would move into the realm of Formula 3, competing in the French F3 Championship, which yielded a ninth place finish, and a cameo in the British F3 Championship.[3] 1999 saw Tréluyer secure his first F3 wins en-route to third in F3 France, with the Frenchman also securing victory in the one-off F3 European Cup race as well as a podium in the Korean Super Prix.[3] However, unable to secure funding to progress into International F3000, Tréluyer opted to move to Asia in 2000, signing up to the Japanese F3 Championship for the campaign.[3]
Two seasons of Japanese F3 would follow for Tréluyer, before he moved into the full Formula Nippon series in 2002, alongside a partial campaign in JGTC.[3] After finding his feet in 2002, the 2003 season saw Tréluyer secure his maiden victories in both series, resulting in him finishing as runner-up in Formula Nippon, and fourth in the freshly renamed Super GT Series.[3] Tréluyer duly became a regular podium finisher in Formula Nippon after that, culminating in the Frenchman winning the title in 2006.[3]
Tréluyer would finish as runner-up twice more in Formula Nippon before the end of the decade, while also taking the honours in Super GT in 2008, and finishing as runner-up in 2011.[3]
Audi Ace: 2010-2017[]
The 2010 season would see Tréluyer sign up as a factory driver in Audi Sport's sportscar programme, having race for Pescarolo and the Peugeot's teams in the 24 Hours of Le Mans since 2007.[3] Finishing second overall on his Audi debut at Le Mans, Tréluyer moved back to Europe at the end of the 2011 season, having been unveiled as one of Audi's factory drivers for the new World Endurance Championship, partnering Marcel Fässler and André Lotterer, having won the 2011 Le Mans race with them.[3] It proved to be a good decision by the Ingolstadt manufacturer, with a second Le Mans win in a row kick-starting a campaign which saw Tréluyer, Fässler and Lotterer become the inaugural WEC Champions for Audi.[3]
Tréluyer would be an ever present in Audi's squad alongside his co-pilots through to the end of the 2016 season when Audi left the WEC, finishing as runner-up three times while also claiming one further Le Mans win in 2014.[3] In 2017 Tréluyer moved into Audi's roster of GT3 customer drivers, with the Frenchman going on to make appearances in various series including the Italian GT3 Championship and Blancpain GT Series.[3]
In 2018 Tréluyer began
DTM History[]
Tréluyer was offered the chance to drive a DMSB Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship car the first time in anger at the end of the 2019 season, when the Frenchman was picked by Audi to drive in the 2019 Dream Races, which signalled the beginning of the Super GT-DTM alliance.[2] After that, Tréluyer would have to wait until the closing weeks of the 2020 season to return to a DTM cockpit, when Loïc Duval confirmed that he would skip the penultimate round of the condensed season to compete in IMSA.[1] Audi duly placed their reserve driver into Duval's empty seat at the Phoenix Racing squad for the second set of races at Zolder, with the Frenchman partnering Mike Rockenfeller for his debut.[1]
Unfortunately for Tréluyer he would not be able to show his established talents in his two race cameo, finishing fourteenth in his debut race before colliding with Lucas Auer and retiring in the 2020 Zolder II Race 2.[4]
Full DTM Record[]
Benoît Tréluyer's full results from his 0 starts in the DTM are outlined in a series of tables below.
DTM Entries[]
The list below includes all of the teams and cars, as well as overall finishing positions for Benoît Tréluyer during their DTM career:
| Benoît Tréluyer's Overall DTM Record | ||||||
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| Year | Entrant | No. | Car | Pos. | Pts. | Livery |
| 2020 | Audi Sport Team Phoenix[1]
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19 | Audi RS5 Turbo DTM | 17th | 0 | 
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Career Results[]
Below is a table showing Benoît Tréluyer's full DTM record:
| Benoît Tréluyer's DTM Championship Record | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Rounds | Pos. | Pts. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |||
| 2020 | 
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17th | 0 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |||
| 14th | Ret | |||||||||||||||||||
| Results Key | ||||
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| Symbol | Meaning | Symbol | Meaning | |
| 1st | Winner | Ret | Retired | |
| 2nd | Second | DSQ | Disqualified | |
| 3rd | Third | DNS | Did Not Start | |
| 7th | Points Scorer | NC | Not Classified | |
| Italics | Fastest Lap | CAN | Race Cancelled | |
| 16th | Non-points finish | † | Non-Championship Race | |
| Bold | Pole Position | 3 | Points for Qualifying | |
References[]
Images and Videos:
References:
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Rachit Thukral, 'Treluyer set to replace Duval in second Zolder DTM race', motorsport.com, (Motorsport Network, 08/10/2020), https://www.motorsport.com/dtm/news/duval-zolder-petit-le-mans/4887544/, (Accessed 30/05/2021)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedBTre19A - ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 'Benoît Tréluyer', driverdb.com, (DriverDB AB, 2021), https://www.driverdb.com/drivers/benoit-treluyer/, (Accessed 22/06/2021)
- ↑ Rachit Thukral, 'Zolder DTM: Rast takes dominant win, Kubica on the podium', motorsport.com, (Motorsport Network, 18/10/2020), https://www.motorsport.com/dtm/news/zolder-rast-win-kubica-podium/4893788/, (Accessed 22/06/2021)
| 2020 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Championship |
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| Manufacturers/Tyres |
| Audi • BMW • Hankook |
| Car/engine |
| Audi RS5 Turbo DTM • RC8 TFSI 2.0l I4t • BMW M4 Turbo DTM • P48 2.0l I4t |
| Teams |
| Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline • Audi Sport Team Phoenix • Audi Sport Team Rosberg • Audi Sport Team WRT • BMW Team ART Orlen • BMW Team RBM • BMW Team RMG • BMW Team RMR |
| Drivers |
| 4 Robin Frijns • 10 Harrison Newey • 11 Marco Wittmann • 13 Fabio Scherer • 16 Timo Glock • 19 Benoît Tréluyer • 22 Lucas Auer • 25 Philipp Eng • 27 Jonathan Aberdein • 28 Loïc Duval • 31 Sheldon van der Linde • 33 René Rast • 51 Nico Müller • 53 Jamie Green • 62 Ferdinand von Habsburg • 88 Robert Kubica • 99 Mike Rockenfeller • Ed Jones |
| Races |
| Spa 1 • Spa 2 • Lausitz 1 • Lausitz 2 • Lausitzring 1 • Lausitzring 2 • Assen 1 • Assen 2 • Nürburg 1 • Nürburg 2 • Nürburgring 1 • Nürburgring 2 • Zolder I Race 1 • Zolder I Race 2 • Zolder II Race 1 • Zolder II Race 2 • Hockenheim 1 • Hockenheim 2 |
| Tests |
| 2020 Nürburgring Test |
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