(1970-04-05) 5 April 1970 (age 54) Aix-les-Baines, Savoie
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years
1997, 1999, 2003–2005, 2007–2012, 2014
Teams
Viper Team Oreca, Pescarolo Sport, Pecom Racing
Best finish
4th (2004, 2010)
Class wins
0
Soheil Ayari (born 5 April 1970) is a French-Iranian race car driver born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, from an Iranian father and a French mother. He won the French Formula Ford championship of 1994, Formula Three championship of 1996 and the Macau Grand Prix of 1997. From 1997 until 2000, he competed in Formula 3000 where he won two races before moving on to the French Supertouring Championship in 2001 where he became champion in 2002, 2004 and 2005.
In 2006 and 2007, he drove in GT Championship, in GT1 for Team Oreca (on a Saleen S7-R). He became French champion in 2006 & 2007 and won the European Le Mans séries championship in 2007 with Stephane Ortelli.
In 2008 & 2009, he drove a Corvette GT 1 in French GT 3 championship before joining the Audi ORECA Team in 2010.
In 2011, he raced and won 2 Championships : ILMC LMP2 (Signatech Nissan) and International Open GT with JMB Ferrari F458 GT2
Ayari driving the Oreca 01 during the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Soheil Ayari is also a famous 24 Hours of Le Mans driver with 11 starts in GT 1, LMP1 & LMP2. Best results over all were 4th in 2004 ((Pescarolo)) & 2010 (ORECA 01)), 5th in 2009 ((ORECA)) and 2nd LMP2 (Signatech Nissan) in 2011.
In 2014, he was in the European Le Mans Series, and in 2015, was in the French GT Championship in which he remained in 2016. In 2017, he switched to the GT4 European Southern Cup and in 2018, moved into French GT's again. Ayari also works as a journalist specialising in track tests and races in historic events.[1]
SoheilAyari (born 5 April 1970) is a French-Iranian race car driver born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, from an Iranian father and a French mother. He won...
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finished six laps ahead of Signatech Nissan's Oreca 03 vehicle driven by SoheilAyari, Franck Mailleux, and Lucas Ordóñez, and seven laps in front of Level...
first leg which necessitated a rebuild of his car, Graff Racing driver SoheilAyari won the two-leg aggregate event by 11.5 seconds over his teammate Patrice...
Christophe Tinseau and PeCom Racing's Luís Pérez Companc, Pierre Kaffer and SoheilAyari. Giancarlo Fisichella, Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander in an AF Corse...
street circuit at Pau. After an attritional race in Helsinki won by SoheilAyari, where most of the major title contenders failed to finish and just nine...
the LMP2 class with drivers Franck Mailleux, long term Oreca driver SoheilAyari and 2009 GT Academy winner Lucas Ordoñez. The trio had been quick throughout...
Retrieved 13 February 2012. Having shared the car with Lucas Ordonez and SoheilAyari in 2011, Mailleux will have two new co-drivers this year; Olivier Lombard...
Simon Dolan and Oliver Turvey of Jota Sport were declared the winners. SoheilAyari and Anthony Pons led the LMPC category, Christian Ried, Gianluca Roda...
Wilson All WRT 19 Hidetoshi Mitsusada 1–3 Marc Hynes 4–6 Dino Morelli 7–8 SoheilAyari 9–10 20 Ananda Mikola All DAMS 21 Franck Montagny All 22 Kristian Kolby...
Signatech FR 1.6 2014 Le Mans French F4 round Silhouette racing car 1:42.335 SoheilAyari Peugeot 406 Coupé 2004 Le Mans French Supertouring round 125cc 1:42.651...
Guilvert, Philippe Giauque, Morgan Moullin-Traffort, Jean-Claude Police, SoheilAyari, all scored two wins during the season. All races were held in France...
eight double-header meetings. The season was won by JMB Racing driver SoheilAyari, who raced on the Ferrari F458 GT2. He also won the Super GT standings...
Álvaro Barba Pierre Kaffer AF Corse D 9 4 9 198 Race 16 of 16 5 2011 SoheilAyari JMB Racing D 0 4 8 199 Race 16 of 16 22 2012 Gianmaria Bruni Federico...
Águas 3-6 Oliver Tichy 7-12 Durango Formula 20 Bertrand Godin All 21 SoheilAyari All Arden Racing KTR 22 Christian Horner All 23 Kurt Mollekens 1-8, 10-12...
Hossein Zenderoudi, is Iranian) Golshifteh Farahani, actress and musician SoheilAyari, race car driver Sarah Kazemy, actress Mansour Bahrami, professional...
again was placed second. This time his teammate from the 1993 season, SoheilAyari won the championship in a Van Diemen. More success for the Mygale chassis...
electric drivetrains. The category included mostly French drivers such as SoheilAyari, Franck Lagorce and Olivier Panis. Also, the Formula Renault 2.0 Alps...
DNF DNF 2012 PeCom Racing 49 Oreca 03 Luis Pérez Companc Pierre Kaffer SoheilAyari LMP2 352 9th 3rd AF Corse 51 Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 Giancarlo Fisichella...
+52 Laps Ferrari 4.5 L V8 29 LMGTE Am 58 Team Sofrev ASP Anthony Pons SoheilAyari Fabien Barthez Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 325 +54 Laps Ferrari 4.5 L V8...
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