Nicolas Armindo

Nicolas Armindo
Nationality	French
Born	(1982-03-08) 8 March 1982 Colmar (France)
FIA GT1 World Championship career
Debut season	2010
Current team	Matech Competition
Car no.	6
Former teams	Mad-Croc Racing
Starts	8
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	33rd in 2010
Previous series
2009 2002-03 2002-03	FIA GT3 Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup FFSA Formula Renault 2.0
Championship titles
2010	Porsche Carrera Cup Germany

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years	2011, 2012, 2014
Teams	IMSA Performance Matmut
Best finish	17th
Class wins	0

Nicolas Armindo (born 8 March 1982) is a race car driver born in Colmar, France.

As a child he enjoyed Karting and raced in many local races. Starting his career in French Formula Campus in 2001, Armindo moved on to drive in French Formula Renault (2002–2003), Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup (2002–2003) and more recently Porsche Carrera Cup Germany (2004). [1]

In 2010 Nicolas became champion in Porsche Carrera Cup Germany with Attempto racing .

In 2009 he was third in the FIA GT3 European Championship with Rosberg team with an Audi R8 LMS.

In 2005 he competed in the FIA GT Championship at the race of Istanbul. With position five in his class he scored 4 points. [2]

He currently holds the record for the fastest lap time in the 6th round of the Porsche Mobil1 Supercup, completing the 5.1-kilometre track in 1:51.692 minutes.[3]

Nicolas Armindo's team is currently IMSA Performance in the Le-Mans Series and Hermes Attempto Racing in the German Porsche Carrera Cup. Together they were able to win the Drivers- and the Team-title in the Carrera Cup in 2010. He also did several guest-starts for Lechner Racing in the Supercup and was able to win in Hockenheim.

In 2011 he raced the Le Mans-Series in a 2010 Porsche 997 GT3 RSR together with Raymond Narac in the GTE-AM-Class and won the Title in the GTE-AM-Class. For the 24 Hours of Le Mans he changed to the GTE-Pro-Class and drove the new 2011 GT3 RSR. He also drove a Porsche 997 GT3 R of the Attempto Team in the ADAC GT-Masters and the 24 Hours of Dubai.

In 2012 he drove the Rolex 24 in Daytona together with Orbit Racing and James Sofronas.

Racing record

Complete Porsche Supercup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 2 points awarded 2008 onwards in all races) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2006	Lechner Racing School Team	Porsche 997 GT3	BHR 19	ITA1	GER1	ESP	MON	GBR	USA1	USA2	FRA	GER2	HUN	ITA2	NC‡	0‡
2007	Tolimit Motorsport	Porsche 997 GT3	BHR1 Ret	BHR2 8	ESP 8	MON 7	FRA 2	GBR 1	GER 11	HUN Ret	TUR Ret	ITA 19	BEL Ret		9th	72
2008	Tolimit Motorsport	Porsche 997 GT3	BHR1 18	BHR2 6	ESP1 4	TUR Ret	MON 18	FRA 9	GBR 15	GER 6	HUN 16	ESP2	BEL	ITA 1	11th	73
2010	Al Faisal Lechner Racing	Porsche 997 GT3	BHR1	BHR2	ESP1	MON	ESP2	GBR	GER 1	HUN	BEL 5	ITA 7			NC‡	0‡

† — Did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

‡ — Guest driver – Not eligible for points.

Complete GT1 World Championship results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Points
2010	Mad-Croc Racing	Corvette	ABU QR	ABU CR	SIL QR 12	SIL CR 11	BRN QR	BRN CR	PRI QR	PRI CR													33rd	14
	Matech Competition	Ford									SPA QR	SPA CR	NÜR QR	NÜR CR	ALG QR	ALG CR	NAV QR 4	NAV CR 7	INT QR 7	INT CR 8	SAN QR 17	SAN CR 8

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2011	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac Patrick Pilet	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Pro	311	17th	5th
2012	IMSA Performance Matmut	Anthony Pons Raymond Narac	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Am	328	21st	2nd
2014	IMSA Performance Matmut	Raymond Narac David Hallyday	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Am	323	31st	11th

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Thomas Jäger	Porsche Carrera Cup Germany champion 2010	Succeeded by Nick Tandy
Preceded by Morgan Moulin-Traffort Fabien Barthez	FFSA GT Champion 2014 with: (Raymond Narac)	Succeeded by Incumbent