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< Back to News Home ALMS Champion and Indycar sensation Simon Pagenaud joins Team Sahlen for ROLEX 24 Hours at Daytona

Posted (12/06/2012) -

Team Sahlen is proud to announce the addition of Simon Pagenaud to their driver line-up for the ROLEX 24 Hours at Daytona.  Simon will be paired with the “Wayne & Dane Show” of Wayne Nonnamaker and Dane Cameron in the #42 BMW-Riley Daytona Prototype.

 

The Frenchman comes to Team Sahlen with a full breadth of Endurance Racing Experiences from around the world.  Simon contested the American LeMans series within the LMP2/Lmp1/ lmp Class for three seasons with DeFerran Motorsports then Highcroft racing capturing 9 victories.  The capstone being the 2010 Driver’s Championship. Additionally Simon drove for the Factory Peugeot Team in the LMP1 class.  His time within the LMP1 class resulted in 2 Spa 1000km overall victories, the 2010 Overall Pole Position at LeMans, and a 2nd in the 24h of Le Mans marking the closest finish in the Le Mans history.

 

In addition to his wealth of Endurance experience, Pagenaud is an accomplished Open Wheel Racer.  In a glimpse of what was to come, in 2006 Simon was the Formula Atlantic Champion in his Rookie Campaign.  In 2012, he added to his Open Wheel CV by contesting the full Indycar circuit with Sam Schmidt Motorsports.  At the end of the season, Simon was placed an amazing 5th place in the Driver’s Championship.  This statistic is all the more astonishing when it is revealed that it was Simon’s 1st full season in the Indycar series.  This fact earned Simon the 2012 Indycar Rookie of the Year.

 

Simon shared his thoughts on this adventure - “I am delighted to join Team Sahlen for their and my 1st Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona in the Daytona Prototype! I have had great opportunities in endurance racing  in Le Mans 24 and the ALMS! Team Sahlen is showing great promises and we will face together a fantastic challenge! It is a proven team in the GT classes and I want to thank them for giving me the opportunity to compete in the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona for the 1st time! Dane is a great talent who i watched in Star Mazda, and I am looking forward to start working with Wayne and the whole team!.  I will do my best to bring my A game and help the team complete their goals!”

Added Team Sahlen’s Sporting Director, Will Nonnamaker – “We have been watching Simon Pagenaud for several years, which has included a unique career path going from open wheel to endurance racing and back to open wheel.  We are excited to be bringing him back to endurance racing with the hope of even more success. He is obviously a driver whom gets the maximum out of the car.  By adding Simon to an already strong line-up of Wayne Nonnamaker and Dane Cameron, we should be well positioned to battle at the front of the very competitive of the ROLEX 24 Hours at Daytona on our 1st ever race in the Daytona Prototype Class”

 

About Team Sahlen

The 1st Professional season for the team was in 1984.  Since that time, the team has recorded 53 victories, 158 podiums, 40 Pole Positions and 41 fastest race laps.  Dating back to 2001, Team Sahlen has a rich history in Grand American Competition, highlighted by championships in the Continental Sports Car Series.  This includes ST class Championships in 2001 & 2002, and then GS titles in 2003 & 2004.  Most recently in ROLEX series competition, Team Sahlen has captured the 2005 and 2011 Bob Akin Sportsman Awards in the GT class.  During the 2011 and 2012 race seasons, Team Sahlen captured 1 victory, 5 podiums, 2 pole positions and 2 fastest race laps and well as the most entered team in the ROLEX series. Check out the latest Team Sahlen news at:  www.TeamSahlen.com

 

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