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Matthieu Lahaye
Nationality	French
Born	(1984-11-23) 23 November 1984 (age 40) Rennes, France
FIA World Endurance Championship career
Current team	OAK Racing
Racing licence	FIA Silver
Car number	LMP2
Previous series
2011 2011 2008–2011 2005–2008 2004 2002–03 2001–02	Intercontinental Le Mans Cup American Le Mans Series Le Mans Series Eurocup Mégane Trophy World Series Lights French Formula Renault Formula France
24 Hours of Le Mans career Years 2008–2010, 2012, 2021 Teams Saulnier/OAK Best finish 7th (2010) Class wins None

Matthieu Lahaye (born 23 November 1984, in Rennes) is a French racing driver, competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship for OAK Racing. Along with his brother Jean-Baptiste, he runs a small sports car racing team called Ultimate.

Career

Lahaye's career began in karting, in which he competed between 1995 and 2001. He then took part in Formula France and French Formula Renault. In 2004 he contested World Series Lights, finishing fifth in the standings with a win at Valenca. He moved on to the Eurocup Mégane Trophy in 2005 for Tech 1 Racing, finishing his first season ninth overall. The following year he won three times on his way to the runner-up spot. 2007 saw him slip to fifth place with just one win.

2008 saw him switch to sportscars, driving in the Le Mans Series for Saulnier Racing. Racing a Pescarolo-Judd with Pierre Ragues, he finished fifth in the LMP2 standings. He also took part in his first 24 Hours of Le Mans with the team together with Ragues and China's Congfu Cheng, finishing 18th overall and third in LMP2.

In 2009 he continued with the team (now renamed OAK Racing) in the LMP2 class of the LMS, with Karim Ajlani as his teammate. They scored two podium finishes from the five races, finishing ninth in the final standings. He and Ajlani were joined at Le Mans by Guillaume Moreau, but the car retired from the race. Lahaye did win the class in the two races at Okayama that made up the 2009 Asian Le Mans Series, partnering team owner Jacques Nicolet and Richard Hein.

In 2010 he partnered Nicolet in the Le Mans Series, and finished the year third in LMP2. At Le Mans he finished seventh overall and second in LMP2, sharing with Moreau and Jan Charouz.

In 2011 he contested the LMP1 category of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup with OAK. However, a heavy accident in qualifying at Spa left him with two broken vertebrae, a broken hand and an injured knee, and he would miss the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

In 2012 he is competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship in OAK's Morgan LMP2 alongside Nicolet and Olivier Pla.

Racing record

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2008	Saulnier Racing	Pierre Ragues Cheng Congfu	Pescarolo 01-Judd	LMP2	333	18th	3rd
2009	OAK Racing Team Mazda France	Guillaume Moreau Karim Ajlani	Pescarolo 01-Mazda	LMP2	208	DNF	DNF
2010	OAK Racing	Guillaume Moreau Jan Charouz	Pescarolo 01-Judd	LMP2	361	7th	2nd
2012	OAK Racing	Jacques Nicolet Olivier Pla	Morgan LMP2-Judd	LMP2	139	DNF	DNF
2021	Association SRT41	Nigel Bailly Takuma Aoki	Oreca 07-Gibson	CDNT	334	32nd	–
2022	Ultimate	François Heriau Jean-Baptiste Lahaye	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	335	48th	24th

Complete European Le Mans Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Season still in progress.

References

1. Dagys, John (22 November 2021). "French LMP2 Squad Ultimate Plotting WEC Debut". Sportscar365. John Dagys Media. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
2. Constant, Brad (17 May 2011). "Tiago Monteiro to replace Oak's injured Matthieu Lahaye". autoweek.com. Crain Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
3. Dagys, John (28 February 2012). "OAK Reveals WEC Driver Lineups". speedtv.com. Speed Channel, Inc. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 4 March 2012.

External links

• Official website Archived 2012-03-07 at the Wayback Machine (in French)
• Matthieu Lahaye career summary at DriverDB.com

• 1984 births
• Living people
• Sportspeople from Rennes
• French racing drivers
• French Formula Renault 2.0 drivers
• Eurocup Mégane Trophy drivers
• European Le Mans Series drivers
• American Le Mans Series drivers
• 24 Hours of Le Mans drivers
• FIA World Endurance Championship drivers
• Asian Le Mans Series drivers
• Tech 1 Racing drivers
• OAK Racing drivers
• Graff Racing drivers