François Perrodo

François Perrodo
François Perrodo
	François Perrodo
Born	François Hubert Marie Perrodo; 14 February 1977 (age 47); Singapore
Nationality	French
Alma mater	St Peter's College, Oxford; IFP School; INSEAD
Occupation	Businessman
Known for	Chairman, Perenco
Parent(s)	Hubert Perrodo; Carrie Perrodo

François Hubert Marie Perrodo (born 14 February 1977) is a French billionaire businessman, racing driver, and car collector. He is the chairman of Perenco, an oil and gas company with operations in 16 countries,^[1] which was founded by his father. In October 2023, Forbes estimated his family to be worth US$10 billion.^[2]

Biography[edit]

Origin[edit]

François Perrodo was born on 14 February 1977 in Singapore. He is the son of Carrie and Hubert Perrodo, French businessman and founder of the oil group Perenco.

Education[edit]

François Perrodo has a degree in physics from St Peter's College, Oxford,^[3] where he captained the University polo team in 1999.^[4]^[5] He is now a member of Guards Polo Club.^[4]

After an engineering degree in 2002 from the École Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs (ENSPM) now called IFP School (French Institute of Petroleum), he received an MBA from INSEAD in Singapore.^[6]

Business[edit]

He is the president of the independent Franco-British oil company Perenco, after his father died in 2006 in a hiking accident near Courchevel, and has run the family business since 2007.^[7]

Car collection[edit]

Perrodo maintains a large collection of historically significant automobiles and is one of the most prolific French car collectors. He keeps cars in both France and the United Kingdom. Perrodo shares photos and stories of his cars and his racing career on his Instagram account.^[8]

The collection includes:^[9]

McLaren F1 #069
McLaren F1 GTR 4R
McLaren F1 GTR 5R
Ferrari 250 GT/L Berlinetta
Ferrari 250 GTO s/n 3387 (purchased in 2016 for $56.4 million)
Ferrari 250 SWB Competizione
Ferrari 250 SWB Berlinetta
Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder (Grey)
Ferrari 250 GT SWB California Spyder (Black)
Ferrari 275 GTB/2
Ferrari 275 GTB/C
Ferrari 333 SP
Ferrari 288 GTO
Ferrari F40
Ferrari F40
Ferrari F50
Ferrari SA Aperta
Ferrari 550 Barchetta Pininfarina
Ferrari LaFerrari
Ferrari Monza SP2
Ferrari Daytona SP3
Ferrari 550 Maranello GTS
Ferrari 365 GTS/4
Bugatti EB110 Super Sport
Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse
Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport
Bugatti Centodieci
Porsche 910
Porsche 917K
Porsche 911 GT1 Evo
Porsche 911 GT2 993 (Red)
Porsche 911 GT2 993 (Yellow)
Porsche 911 GT2 993 (Blue)
Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 997 (White)
Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 997 (Black)
Porsche Carrera GT
Porsche RS Spyder Evo
Porsche RS Spyder Evo
Maserati MC12
Maserati MC12 (Blue Carbon Fibre)
Maserati MC12 GT1
Aston Martin DBR9
Alpine A110 (2017)
Lancia Delta Integrale
2008 McLaren MP4-23A Formula 1 car driven by Lewis Hamilton, winning Australian and Monaco GP.
Lamborghini Diablo SE

The collection used to include the following, which have since been sold:

McLaren F1 #045^[10]
McLaren P1
McLaren Senna
McLaren 675LT
Porsche 918 Spyder
Lamborghini Huracán Performante
Mercedes-Benz AMG SLS Black Series
Lexus LFA
Ford GT (2017)

Racing driver[edit]

Perrodo is a motorsport enthusiast, he started with classic car racing in 2010.^[11]^[12]

He competes in endurance racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship, currently having leveraged his fortune into a ride with AF Corse in the LMP2 class, having initially competed in the GTE Am class from 2013 until 2016. He has taken part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, V de V Series, Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup, European Le Mans Series (ELMS), United SportsCar Championship and the 24 Hours Series.

Perrodo again competed for AF Corse in the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans, driving the team's No. 83 LMP2 entry. While running side-by-side with the GTE-Pro class leading No. 64 Corvette of Alexander Sims in the final hours of the race, Perrodo swerved sharply left and sent the Corvette crashing into the barriers in the middle of the Mulsanne Straight. AF Corse's No. 51 GTE-Pro entry was running second in class at the time and went on to inherit the class lead from the Corvette.^[13]

Complete European Le Mans Series results[edit]

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

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pos.	Pts
2013	Prospeed Competition	LMGTE	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 5	IMO Ret	RBR 5	HUN 4	LEC 6		8th	40
2014	Crubilé Sport	LMGTE	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL 8	IMO 10					20th	13
2014	AF Corse	LMGTE	Ferrari F458 Italia	Ferrari 4.5 L V8			RBR 8	LEC Ret	EST 8		20th	13
2018	TDS Racing	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC 2	MNZ 2	RBR 9	SIL	SPA	ALG	10th	38
2020	AF Corse	LMGTE	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	LEC	SPA 2	LEC	MNZ	ALG 8		NC	0
2021	AF Corse	LMGTE	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	CAT WD	RBR 1	LEC 3	MNZ 3	SPA 1	ALG 10	3rd	83
2022	AF Corse	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	LEC 8	IMO 14	MNZ 12	CAT 5	SPA 7	ALG 8	12th	25
2022	AF Corse	Pro-Am Cup	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	2	5	4	1	2	2	3rd	101
2023	AF Corse	LMP2 Pro/Am	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	CAT 2	LEC 3	ARA 1	SPA 4	PRT 3	ALG 1	1st	110
2024	AF Corse	LMP2 Pro/Am	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	CAT	LEC	IMO	SPA	MUG	ALG

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results[edit]

Year	Entrant	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Rank	Points
2013	Prospeed Competition	LMGTE Am	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL	SPA	LMS 9	SÃO	COA	FUJ	SHA			22nd	15
2013	AF Corse	LMGTE Am	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari 4.5 L V8								BHR 3		22nd	15
2014	Prospeed Competition	LMGTE Am	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6	SIL Ret	SPA 6	LMS Ret							9th	58
2014	Prospeed Competition	LMGTE Am	Porsche 911 RSR	Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6				COA 8	FUJ 3	SHA 4	BHR 7	SÃO 5		9th	58
2015	AF Corse	LMGTE Am	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari 4.5 L V8	SIL 2	SPA 2	LMS 3	NÜR 3	COA 3	FUJ 3	SHA 1	BHR 4		2nd	148
2016	AF Corse	LMGTE Am	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari 4.5 L V8	SIL 1	SPA 2	LMS 1	NÜR 2	MEX 2	COA 6	FUJ 2	SHA 2	BHR 3	1st	188
2017	TDS Racing	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	SIL 3	SPA 9	LMS Ret	NÜR 8	MEX 7	COA 7	FUJ 4	SHA 6	BHR 9	14th	55
2018–19	TDS Racing	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	SPA 4	LMS DSQ	SIL 7	FUJ 4	SHA Ret	SEB NC	SPA 4	LMS 3		8th	66
2019-20	AF Corse	LMGTE Am	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SIL 1	FUJ 2	SHA 4	BHR 4	COA 4	SPA 1	LMS 3	BHR 2		1st	167
2021	AF Corse	LMGTE Am	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8	SPA 1	POR 11	MON 1	LMS 1	BHR 5	BHR 1				1st	150
2022	AF Corse	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	SEB 9	SPA 9	LMS 11	MNZ 9	FUJ 10	BHR 10				18th	12
2022	AF Corse	Pro-Am Cup	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	1	1	2	3	1	1				1st	177

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results[edit]

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2013	Prospeed Competition	Emmanuel Collard Sébastien Crubilé	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Am	298	36th	9th
2014	Prospeed Competition	Emmanuel Collard Markus Palttala	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	GTE Am	194	DNF	DNF
2015	AF Corse	Rui Águas Emmanuel Collard	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Am	330	26th	4th
2016	AF Corse	Rui Águas Emmanuel Collard	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	GTE Am	331	27th	2nd
2017	TDS Racing	Emmanuel Collard Matthieu Vaxivière	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	213	DNF	DNF
2018	TDS Racing	Loïc Duval Matthieu Vaxivière	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	366	DSQ	DSQ
2019	TDS Racing	Loïc Duval Matthieu Vaxivière	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	366	8th	3rd
2020	AF Corse	Nicklas Nielsen Emmanuel Collard	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Am	339	26th	3rd
2021	AF Corse	Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Ferrari 488 GTE Evo	GTE Am	340	25th	1st
2022	AF Corse	Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	361	24th	19th
2023	AF Corse	Ben Barnicoat Norman Nato	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2	183	DNF	DNF
2023	AF Corse	Ben Barnicoat Norman Nato	Oreca 07-Gibson	LMP2 Pro-Am	183	DNF	DNF

Complete IMSA SportsCar Championship results[edit]

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

Year	Team	Class	Car	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2015	AF Corse	GTLM	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	Ferrari F142 4.5 L V8	DAY 10	SEB	LBH	LGA	WGL	MOS	ELK	VIR	COA	PET			27th	22
2017	EBIMOTORS	GTD	Lamborghini Huracán GT3	Lamborghini 5.2L V10	DAY 9	SEB	LBH	COA	DET	WGL	MOS	LIM	ELK	VIR	LGA	PET	65th	22
2023	AF Corse	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	DAY 3	SEB	MON	WGL	ELK	IMS	PET 4						24th	306

References[edit]

^ "Bloomberg Business Week". Retrieved 26 August 2013.^{[dead link]}
^ "Carrie Perrodo & family". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-10-05.
^ "A Fabulous Gift - www.spc.ox.ac.uk". www.spc.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Guards Polo Club". Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
^ "Polo Archive". Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
^ "Business Education Ranking". Archived from the original on 2010-09-29. Retrieved 2017-09-28.
^ "Verif.com". Retrieved 26 August 2013.
^ "Fanch (@fanchracing) • Instagram photos and videos". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
^ "ECR - Collection - fanchracing". ECR - Collection - fanchracing. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
^ "ECR - McLaren F1 details". ECR - McLaren F1 details. Retrieved 2023-01-30.
^ "European Le Mans Series". Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
^ "ProSpeed". Archived from the original on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
^ "Remaining Corvette Crashes Out of GTE-Pro Lead". sportscar365.com. 2022-06-12. Retrieved 2022-06-12.

External links[edit]

Official Company website
François Perrodo career summary at DriverDB.com

Sporting positions
Preceded by Andrea Bertolini Aleksey Basov Viktor Shaitar	FIA Endurance Trophy for LMGTE Am Drivers 2016 With: Emmanuel Collard & Rui Águas	Succeeded by Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda Paul Dalla Lana
Preceded by Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Lindsey Egidio Perfetti	FIA Endurance Trophy for LMGTE Am Drivers 2019-20 With: Emmanuel Collard & Nicklas Nielsen	Succeeded by Incumbent

[1] "Bloomberg Business Week". Retrieved 26 August 2013.^{[dead link]}

[2] "Carrie Perrodo & family". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-10-05.

[3] "A Fabulous Gift - www.spc.ox.ac.uk". www.spc.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2018.

[auto-4] "Guards Polo Club". Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.

[5] "Polo Archive". Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2013.

[6] "Business Education Ranking". Archived from the original on 2010-09-29. Retrieved 2017-09-28.

[7] "Verif.com". Retrieved 26 August 2013.

[8] "Fanch (@fanchracing) • Instagram photos and videos". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2022-07-25.

[9] "ECR - Collection - fanchracing". ECR - Collection - fanchracing. Retrieved 2022-07-25.

[10] "ECR - McLaren F1 details". ECR - McLaren F1 details. Retrieved 2023-01-30.

[11] "European Le Mans Series". Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.

[12] "ProSpeed". Archived from the original on 21 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.

[13] "Remaining Corvette Crashes Out of GTE-Pro Lead". sportscar365.com. 2022-06-12. Retrieved 2022-06-12.

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