Nicolas Lapierre: “Winning at Le Mans is obviously very strong. »

Nicolas lapierre has returned to the heights. Those on the podium 24 Hours of Le Mans, where he was present on June 14, as winner of the LM P2 category with the KCMG team and its teammates for the occasion Richard Bradley and Matt Howson, but also those from Switzerland, where AUTOhebdo went to meet the Frenchman.

« Winning at Le Mans, even if not overall, is obviously very strong. But this victory is especially pleasing compared to what I experienced last year. Watch the last four rounds of the WEC on television while we (Sébastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson) We were leading the championship, wasn’t it easy to deal with? Last winter, I even had a period where I discussed the possibility of ending my career because I was so disgusted..."

After finally finding motivation with the offer to compete in Spa and Le Mans in the Oreca 05 with KCMG, it is with a prestigious success in Sarthe that Haut-Savoyard began the summer period. “At the end, everyone did a great job, and I really want to salute the work done by my teammates. From the Prologue, I saw how talented they were? I would have liked to continue with them in the WEC, but they signed this contract with Tandy (winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans overall with Porsche) … ”

Find our entire meeting with Nicolas Lapierre, in the 2018 issue of AUTOhebdo, available now in digital version and on newsstands.