Nathanaël Berthon

French racing driver

Nathanaël Berthon
Berthon testing for Team Aguri at Donington Park in 2015
Nationality	French
Born	(1989-07-01) 1 July 1989 (age 34) Romagnat, France
GP2 Series career
Debut season	2012
Current team	Daiko Team Lazarus
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Car number	26
Former teams	Trident Racing Racing Engineering
Starts	87
Wins	1
Poles	0
Fastest laps	2
Best finish	12th in 2012
Previous series
2012 2010–11 2011 2008–09 2008–09	Toyota Racing Series Formula Renault 3.5 Series GP2 Asia Series Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault 2.0 WEC
Championship titles
2016–17 2009	Andros Trophy – Elite Class French Formula Renault 2.0

Formula E career
Debut season	2015–16
Current team	Team Aguri
Car number	77
Starts	3
Wins	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	17th in 2015–16
Finished last season	17th

Nathanaël Berthon (born 1 July 1989^[1] in Romagnat) is a professional racing driver from France.

Career

Karting

Berthon began his international karting career in 2006, with the highlights being a third-place finish in the Copa Campeones Trophy ICA class and fifth in the French Championship Elite category. The following year he again finished fifth in the French Championship Elite class. He also finished eighth in the South Garda Winter Cup KF1 and 13th in the World Cup KF1 categories.

Formula Renault 2.0

In 2008, Berthon moved up to single–seaters, taking part in both the Formula Renault 2.0 West European Cup and Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 series for Boutsen Energy Racing. In the West European Cup, he finished in the points on four occasions, scoring nine points to be classified in 18th place, whilst in the Eurocup, he failed to score a point, with his best race result being 12th place at the Nürburgring meeting.

2009 saw Berthon remain in both series for a second season, this time racing for the Spanish team Epsilon Euskadi. He won his first Eurocup race at the opening round in Barcelona after teammate Albert Costa was disqualified for a technical infringement.^[2] He followed that up with a further podium at the Hungaroring to finish sixth in the standings.^[3]

In the West European Cup, Berthon took a victory at Spa–Francorchamps along with six other podium finishes to finish third in the championship, behind Jean-Éric Vergne and champion Costa.^[4] He was also crowned as French Formula Renault 2.0 champion, with the series being run as part of the West European Cup season.^[5]

Formula Renault 3.5 Series

In October 2009, Berthon sampled a Formula Renault 3.5 Series car for the first time, testing for Tech 1 Racing at Motorland Aragón in Spain as a reward for winning the French Formula Renault 2.0 title.^[6] He drove for the recently–crowned champions Draco Racing during the next test at the Circuit de Catalunya and in December 2009 it was announced that he would drive for the team in the 2010 season.^[7] He was joined at the team by Colombian driver Omar Leal.^[8]

After finishing on the podium at the season–opener in Motorland Aragón and again at Brno, Berthon secured his first Formula Renault 3.5 Series win on home soil at Magny–Cours, holding off a stiff challenge from Tech 1 Racing's Daniel Ricciardo.^[9] He followed that up with another podium finish at Hockenheim to be classified in seventh place in the championship standings.^[10]

Berthon returned to the series in 2011, replacing Dean Stoneman at ISR Racing after the Briton was forced to pull out of the championship due to illness.^[11] Partnered variously by Ricciardo and Lewis Williamson, he took a first finish of third place to finish 13th overall in the drivers' championship.

Formula Three

In July 2010, Berthon made his Formula Three debut, racing for the ART Grand Prix team in the British Formula 3 Championship round at Spa–Francorchamps as an entry in the Invitation class.^[12] During the weekend he finished all three races, taking a best result of 13th place in the sprint event.

GP2 Series

Berthon made his debut in the GP2 Asia Series in 2011, partnering Spaniard Dani Clos at the Racing Engineering team.^[13] He failed to score a point in the four races he contested and was classified in 23rd place in the championship.^[14] He returned to the main GP2 Series, again with Racing Engineering, for the non-championship race that concluded the 2011 season, and raced full-time for the team in 2012, alongside Fabio Leimer, eventually finishing 12th overall with a best race finish of second on two occasions.

Toyota Racing Series

In the winter of 2012 prior to the start of the GP2 season, Berthon travelled to New Zealand to compete in the five-round Toyota Racing Series in a grid which featured a mix of local and foreign drivers. As one of five drivers for the M2 Competition team, he finished seventh in the championship.

Formula One

On 16 November 2011, Berthon had his first experience of driving a Formula One car. At the Abu Dhabi young drivers' test at the Yas Marina Circuit, he drove the HRT F1 Team's F111 for nine laps. He set a best time of 1:48.646, which left him 13th fastest.^[15] The following day, Berthon had the whole day to himself with the car, completing 51 laps (283 kilometres (176 mi)) and finished the day in 12th position with a best time of 1:45.839.^[16] Berthon described the day by saying: "Today was a great experience but it felt like it was too short. I would like to spend some more time in the car but, as a first step, it was very good".^[16]

Formula E

On 17 October 2015, it was announced that Berthon would partner António Félix da Costa at Team Aguri for the 2015–16 season.

Racing record

Career summary

Season	Series	Team	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	Position
2008	Formula Renault 2.0 WEC	Boutsen Energy Racing	15	0	0	0	0	9	18th
2008	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Boutsen Energy Racing	14	0	0	0	0	0	33rd
2009	Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0	Epsilon Euskadi	14	1	0	0	2	67	6th
2009	Formula Renault 2.0 WEC	Epsilon Euskadi	14	1	1	1	7	120	3rd
2010	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	International DracoRacing	17	1	0	0	4	60	7th
2010	British Formula 3 International Series	ART Grand Prix	3	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2011	Formula Renault 3.5 Series	ISR Racing	17	0	0	0	1	37	13th
	GP2 Asia Series	Racing Engineering	4	0	0	0	0	0	23rd
	GP2 Final	Racing Engineering	2	0	0	0	0	0	11th
2012	GP2 Series	Racing Engineering	24	0	0	0	2	60	12th
2012	Toyota Racing Series	M2 Competition	15	0	0	1	0	755	7th
2013	GP2 Series	Trident Racing	22	1	0	1	1	21	20th
2014	GP2 Series	Venezuela GP Lazarus	22	0	0	0	0	17	20th
	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Murphy Prototypes	2	0	1	0	1	16	16th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Murphy Prototypes	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
	Formula Acceleration 1	Acceleration Team France	2	0	0	0	0	22	12th
	Formula Acceleration 1	Acceleration Team China	2	0	0	0	0	22	12th
	FIA World Endurance Championship	Lotus	1	0	0	0	0	0	28th
2015	GP2 Series	Daiko Team Lazarus	19	0	0	1	1	27	16th
	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Murphy Prototypes	5	0	0	0	1	26	10th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Murphy Prototypes	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	5th
2015–16	Formula E	Team Aguri	3	0	0	0	0	4	17th
2015–16	Andros Trophy - Électrique	Biovitis	11	2	0	2	4	316	4th
2016	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	G-Drive Racing	2	0	2	0	1	27	22nd
	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Greaves Motorsport	4	0	0	0	0	28	11th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Greaves Motorsport	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	6th
2016–17	Andros Trophy - Elite	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	13	4	4	4	8	614	1st
2017	European Le Mans Series - LMP2	Panis Barthez Competition	5	0	1	0	0	35	13th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	Panis Barthez Competition	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	DNF
	Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup	Belgian Audi Club Team WRT	4	0	0	0	0	2	45th
	Intercontinental GT Challenge	Team WRT	1	0	0	0	0	0	NC
2017–18	Andros Trophy - Elite Pro	Comtoyou Racing	13	2	2	1	7	618	3rd
2018	World Touring Car Cup	Comtoyou Racing	30	0	0	0	1	79	15th
	TCR Europe Touring Car Series		2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
	TCR BeNeLux Touring Car Championship		2	0	0	0	0	2	11th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP2	DragonSpeed	1	0	0	1	0	N/A	5th
2018–19	Andros Trophy - Elite Pro	Comtoyou Racing	11	0	0	0	5	606	5th
	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP1	Rebellion Racing	3	0	0	0	1	51	9th
	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP2	DragonSpeed	2	0	1	1	1	34	12th
2019	24 Hours of Le Mans	Rebellion Racing	1	0	0	1	0	N/A	5th
2019–20	Andros Trophy - Elite Pro Class	Sylvain Pussier Competition	10	0	0	0	2	457	5th
2019–20	FIA World Endurance Championship - LMP1	Rebellion Racing	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2020	World Touring Car Cup	Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport	16	1	3	2	2	148	8th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - LMP1	Rebellion Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	4th
	24H TCE Europe Series - TCR	Audi Sport Team Comtoyou	1	0	0	0	0	0	30th
2020-21	Andros Trophy - Elite Pro	Sylvain Pussier Competition	11	3	2	2	4	518	3rd
2021	World Touring Car Cup	Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport	16	0	0	0	1	114	13th
2021	24H GT Series - P4	Car Collection Motorsport	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC†
2021–22	Andros Trophy - Elite Pro	Sylvain Pussier Competition	9	1	1	2	3	502	4th
2022	World Touring Car Cup	Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport	16	2	1	2	5	240	3rd
2022	Intercontinental GT Challenge	Audi Sport Team Valvoline	1	0	0	0	0	12	16th
2022–23	Andros Trophy - Elite Pro	SP Competition	10	0	0	1	6	510	4th
2023	European Le Mans Series - LMP2 Pro-Am	DKR Engineering	6	0	0	0	0	32	12th
	FIA World Endurance Championship - Hypercar	Glickenhaus Racing	1	0	0	0	0	4	19th
	24 Hours of Le Mans - Hypercar	Glickenhaus Racing	1	0	0	0	0	N/A	7th

^† As Berthon was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Pos	Points
2010	International Draco Racing	ALC 1 Ret	ALC 2 3	SPA 1 Ret	SPA 2 10	MON 1 Ret	BRN 1 8	BRN 2 2	MAG 1 9	MAG 2 1	HUN 1 Ret	HUN 2 13	HOC 1 9	HOC 2 3	SIL 1 Ret	SIL 2 Ret	CAT 1 6	CAT 2 12	7th	60
2011	ISR	ALC 1 12	ALC 2 8	SPA 1 14	SPA 2 16	MNZ 1 Ret	MNZ 2 Ret	MON 1 10	NÜR 1 Ret	NÜR 2 Ret	HUN 1 9	HUN 2 10	SIL 1 4	SIL 2 3	LEC 1 14	LEC 2 14	CAT 1 9	CAT 2 Ret	13th	37

Complete GP2 Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	DC	Points
2012	Racing Engineering	SEP FEA 11	SEP SPR 8	BHR1 FEA 21	BHR1 SPR Ret	BHR2 FEA 12	BHR2 SPR 10	CAT FEA 5	CAT SPR 2	MON FEA 9	MON SPR 7	VAL FEA 6	VAL SPR 5	SIL FEA 12	SIL SPR 14	HOC FEA 15	HOC SPR 9	HUN FEA 7	HUN SPR 2	SPA FEA 14	SPA SPR 19	MNZ FEA 15	MNZ SPR 15	MRN FEA 10	MRN SPR 15	12th	60
2013	Trident Racing	SEP FEA Ret	SEP SPR 21	BHR FEA 17	BHR SPR 22	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR 23	MON FEA Ret	MON SPR 21	SIL FEA 20	SIL SPR Ret	NÜR FEA 17	NÜR SPR 15	HUN FEA 8	HUN SPR 1	SPA FEA 22	SPA SPR 13	MNZ FEA Ret	MNZ SPR 21	MRN FEA Ret	MRN SPR 10	YMC FEA 18†	YMC SPR 13			20th	21
2014	Venezuela GP Lazarus	BHR FEA 23†	BHR SPR 17	CAT FEA Ret	CAT SPR Ret	MON FEA 17	MON SPR 12	RBR FEA 22	RBR SPR 25	SIL FEA 17	SIL SPR 12	HOC FEA 8	HOC SPR 17	HUN FEA 8	HUN SPR 4	SPA FEA 22	SPA SPR 15	MNZ FEA 13	MNZ SPR 19†	SOC FEA 10	SOC SPR 9	YMC FEA 15	YMC SPR 13			20th	17
2015	Daiko Team Lazarus	BHR FEA 7	BHR SPR 3	CAT FEA 20	CAT SPR 12	MON FEA 17	MON SPR 15	RBR FEA Ret	RBR SPR 17	SIL FEA Ret	SIL SPR 21	HUN FEA 14	HUN SPR 11	SPA FEA 7	SPA SPR 7	MNZ FEA	MNZ SPR	SOC FEA 14	SOC SPR 19	BHR FEA 11	BHR SPR Ret	YMC FEA 10	YMC SPR C			16th	27

^† Driver did not finish the race, but was classified as he completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete GP2 Asia Series results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	DC	Points
2011	Racing Engineering	YMC FEA Ret	YMC SPR 14	IMO FEA Ret	IMO SPR 13	23rd	0

Complete GP2 Final results

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

Year	Entrant	1	2	DC	Points
2011	Racing Engineering	YMC FEA 9	YMC SPR 19	11th	0

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2014	Murphy Prototypes	Rodolfo González Karun Chandhok	Oreca 03R-Nissan	LMP2	73	DNF	DNF
2015	Murphy Prototypes	Mark Patterson Karun Chandhok	Oreca 03R-Nissan	LMP2	347	13th	5th
2016	Greaves Motorsport	Julien Canal Memo Rojas	Ligier JS P2-Nissan	LMP2	348	10th	6th
2017	Panis Barthez Competition	Fabien Barthez Timothé Buret	Ligier JS P217-Gibson	LMP2	296	DNF	DNF
2018	DragonSpeed	Roberto González Pastor Maldonado	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	360	9th	5th
2019	Rebellion Racing	Gustavo Menezes Thomas Laurent	Rebellion R13-Gibson	LMP1	370	5th	5th
2020	Rebellion Racing	Louis Delétraz Romain Dumas	Rebellion R13-Gibson	LMP1	381	4th	4th
2023	Glickenhaus Racing	Esteban Gutiérrez Franck Mailleux	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	Hypercar	333	7th	7th

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2014	Lotus	LMP1	CLM P1/01	AER P60 Turbo V6	SIL	SPA	LMS	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR Ret	SÃO		28th	0
2016	G-Drive Racing	LMP2	Oreca 05	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL 3	SPA 5	LMS	NÜR	MEX	COA	FUJ	SHA	BHR	22nd	27
2018–19	DragonSpeed	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	SPA 5	LMS 3	SIL	FUJ	SHA					12th	34
2018–19	Rebellion Racing	LMP1	Rebellion R13	Gibson GL458 4.5 L V8						SEB 7	SPA 2	LMS 5		9th	51
2023	Glickenhaus Racing	Hypercar	Glickenhaus SCG 007 LMH	Glickenhaus 3.5 L Turbo V8	SEB	ALG	SPA	LMS	MNZ 8	FUJ	BHR			19th	4

Complete Formula Acceleration 1 results

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

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pos	Points
2014	France	ALG 1	ALG 2	NAV 1 10	NAV 2 10	NÜR 1	NÜR 2	MNZ 1	MNZ 2			12th	22
2014	China									ASS 1 4	ASS 2 5	12th	22

Complete European Le Mans Series results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Rank	Points
2014	Murphy Prototypes	LMP2	Oreca 03	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL	IMO Ret	RBR	LEC 3	EST		16th	16
2015	Murphy Prototypes	LMP2	Oreca 03R	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL Ret	IMO 2	RBR 6	LEC Ret	EST Ret		10th	26
2016	Greaves Motorsport	LMP2	Ligier JS P2	Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8	SIL	IMO	RBR 6	LEC 6	SPA 4	EST Ret	11th	28
2017	Panis Barthez Competition	LMP2	Ligier JS P217	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	SIL 9	MNZ	RBR 5	LEC 4	SPA 9	ALG 6	13th	35
2023	DKR Engineering	LMP2 Pro-Am	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	CAT 5	LEC 9	ARA 8	SPA 8	ALG 8	ALG 6	12th	32

Complete Formula E results

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

Year	Team	Chassis	Powertrain	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pos	Points
2015–16	Team Aguri	Spark SRT01-e	SRT01-e	BEI 8	PUT 15	PDE 14	BUE	MEX	LBH	PAR	BER	LDN	LDN	17th	4

Complete World Touring Car Cup results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	DC	Points
2018	Comtoyou Racing	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	MAR 1 12	MAR 2 15	MAR 3 Ret	HUN 1 11	HUN 2 14	HUN 3 16	GER 1 20	GER 2 8	GER 3 5	NED 1 9	NED 2 15	NED 3 11	POR 1 8	POR 2 Ret	POR 3 Ret	SVK 1 10	SVK 2 12	SVK 3 Ret	CHN 1 Ret	CHN 2 8	CHN 3 8	WUH 1 8	WUH 2 3	WUH 3 5	JPN 1 12	JPN 2 17	JPN 3 20	MAC 1 18	MAC 2 7	MAC 3 9	15th	79
2020	Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	BEL 1 9	BEL 2 14	GER 1 12	GER 2 12	SVK 1 1	SVK 2 Ret	SVK 3 2	HUN 1 12	HUN 2 11	HUN 3 11	ESP 1 12	ESP 2 4	ESP 3 4	ARA 1 4	ARA 2 NC	ARA 3 8															8th	148
2021	Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	GER 1 11	GER 2 6	POR 1 11	POR 2 12	ESP 1 4	ESP 2 5	HUN 1 Ret	HUN 2 12	CZE 1 Ret	CZE 2 5	FRA 1 11	FRA 2 10	ITA 1 21	ITA 2 14	RUS 1 4	RUS 2 3															13th	114
2022	Comtoyou DHL Team Audi Sport	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	FRA 1 16	FRA 2 4	GER 1 C	GER 2 C	HUN 1 3	HUN 2 12	ESP 1 4	ESP 2 8	POR 1 10	POR 2 Ret	ITA 1 9	ITA 2 2	ALS 1 1	ALS 2 8	BHR 1 3	BHR 2 5	SAU 1 1	SAU 2 Ret													3rd	240

^* Season still in progress.

Complete TCR Europe Touring Car Series results

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

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	DC	Points
2018	Comtoyou Racing	Audi RS 3 LMS TCR	LEC 1	LEC 2	ZAN 1	ZAN 2	SPA 1	SPA 2	HUN 1	HUN 2	ASS 1	ASS 2	MNZ 1	MNZ 2	CAT 1 Ret	CAT 2 Ret	NC	0

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Sporting positions
Preceded by Jean-Éric Vergne	French Formula Renault 2.0 Champion 2009	Succeeded by None (Series ended)
Preceded by Eddy Bénézet	Andros Trophy Elite Champion 2016–17	Succeeded by Eddy Bénézet