CLX Motorsport

CLX Motorsport
Founded	2017
Founder(s)	Patrick Barbier; Alexandre Coigny
Base	Annecy, France
Team principal(s)	Alexandre Coigny; Nicolas Lapierre;
Current series	European Le Mans Series; Le Mans Cup; Ultimate Cup Series
Former series	FIA World Endurance Championship; Ligier European Series; French GT4 Cup; 24H Series
Current drivers	European Le Mans Series:; 37.; Lorenzo Fluxá; Malthe Jakobsen; Ritomo Miyata; 47.; Alex García ; Ferdinand Habsburg; Frederik Vesti; 17.; Miguel Cristóvão; Manuel Espírito Santo; Cédric Oltramare; Le Mans Cup:; 87.; Adrien Closmenil ; James Sweetnam; 97.; Adrien Chila; David Droux
Website	https://cool-racing.ch/

CLX Motorsport, formerly known as Cool Racing, is a French-based Swiss sports car racing team which currently competes in the European Le Mans Series, fielding entries in the LMP2 and LMP3 classes, as well as the Le Mans Cup.

Founded in 2017 by Patrick Barbier and Alexandre Coigny, owner of Cool Aviation, the team initially partnered with Racing Spirit of Léman to run their operations. At the end of 2020, a restructuring occurred, during which Nicolas Lapierre became the team principal and the outfit was rebranded to Cool Racing / CLX Motorsport; the C and L standing for Coigny and Lapierre respectively. CLX fully absorbed the team in 2025.

Results & Achievements

Main Championship Titles

European Le Mans Series
- LMP3 Teams’ Champion in 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026
- LMP3 Drivers’ Champion in 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026
Asian Le Mans Series
- LMP3 Teams’ Champion in 2023–24 and 2025–26
- LMP3 Drivers' Champion in 2023–24 and 2025–26
Le Mans Cup
- LMP3 Teams’ Champion in 2024
- LMP3 Drivers’ Champion in 2024

Notable Victories

Overall Winner - 2020 Road to Le Mans
Overall Winner - 2022 Road to Le Mans
Overall Winner - 2023 Road to Le Mans
Overall Winner - 2025 Road to Le Mans

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Entrant	No.	Car	Drivers	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2020	Cool Racing	42	Oreca 07-Gibson	Antonin Borga Alexandre Coigny Nicolas Lapierre	LMP2	365	12th	8th
2022	Cool Racing	37	Oreca 07-Gibson	Niklas Krütten Ricky Taylor Yifei Ye	LMP2	367	11th	7th
2023	Cool Racing	37	Oreca 07-Gibson	Alexandre Coigny Malthe Jakobsen Nicolas Lapierre	LMP2 (Pro-Am)	317	23rd	2nd
2023	Cool Racing	47	Oreca 07-Gibson	Reshad de Gerus Vladislav Lomko Simon Pagenaud	LMP2	158	DNF	DNF
2024	Cool Racing	37	Oreca 07-Gibson	Lorenzo Fluxá Malthe Jakobsen Ritomo Miyata	LMP2	289	26th	12th
2024	Cool Racing	47	Oreca 07-Gibson	Matt Bell Naveen Rao Frederik Vesti	LMP2 (Pro-Am)	291	24th	5th
2025	CLX – Pure Rxcing	37	Oreca 07-Gibson	Tom Blomqvist Alex Malykhin Tristan Vautier	LMP2	358	32nd	14th
2026	CLX Motorsport	37	Oreca 07-Gibson	Ian Aguilera Adrien Closmenil Theodor Jensen	LMP2	360	19th	5th

European Le Mans Series

Year	Entrant	Class	No	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pos.	Pts
2017	Cool Racing by GPC	LMP3	4	Ligier JS P3	Nissan VK50VE 5.6 L V8	Iradj Alexander Gino Forgione (rounds 1–2) Alexandre Coigny (rounds 2–6)	SIL 14	MNZ 14	RBR NC	LEC 10	SPA 12	ALG 11	16th	3
2018	Cool Racing	LMP3	4	Ligier JS P3	Nissan VK50VE 5.6 L V8	Iradj Alexander (rounds 1–4, 6) Antonin Borga (rounds 1–3, 5–6) Alexandre Coigny (rounds 1–3, 5–6) Lucas Borga (round 4) Christian Vaglio (round 4)	LEC 10	MNZ 9	RBR 10	SIL 11	SPA 6‡	ALG 13	13th	9
2019	Cool Racing	LMP2	37	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Antonin Borga Nicolas Lapierre Alexandre Coigny (rounds 1–4, 6)	LEC 7	MNZ 8	CAT 3	SIL Ret	SPA 2	ALG 14	7th	44.5
2020	Cool Racing	LMP2	37	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Antonin Borga Alexandre Coigny Nicolas Lapierre	LEC 4	SPA 10	LEC 12	MNZ 4	ALG 9		7th	28.5
2021	Cool Racing	LMP3	19	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56VE 5.6 L V8	Matthew Bell Niklas Krütten Nicolas Maulini	CAT 1	RBR 1	LEC 2	MNZ 4	SPA 2	ALG 8	2nd	104
2021	Cool Racing	LMP2	37	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Alexandre Coigny Nicolas Lapierre Antonin Borga (rounds 1–4) Charles Milesi (rounds 5–6)	CAT 10	RBR 10	LEC 12	MNZ 12	SPA 4	ALG 6	11th	25
2022	Cool Racing	LMP3	17	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56VE 5.6 L V8	Mike Benham Malthe Jakobsen Maurice Smith	LEC 1	IMO 3	MNZ Ret	CAT 3	SPA Ret	ALG 1	1st	86
		LMP3	27	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56VE 5.6 L V8	Antoine Doquin Jean-Ludovic Foubert Nicolas Maulini	LEC Ret	IMO 2	MNZ 6	CAT Ret	SPA 4	ALG 3	6th	53
		LMP2	37	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Niklas Krütten Nicolas Lapierre Ye Yifei	LEC 5	IMO 3	MNZ 8	CAT 3	SPA 5	ALG 3	4th	70
2023	Cool Racing	LMP3	17	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56VE 5.6 L V8	Adrien Chila Alex García Marcos Siebert	CAT 1	LEC 3	ARA 1	SPA 1	POR 4	ALG 2	1st	121
		LMP2 Pro-Am	37	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Alexandre Coigny Malthe Jakobsen Nicolas Lapierre	CAT 3	LEC 2	ARA Ret	SPA 1	POR 1	ALG 2	2nd	101
		LMP2	47	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Reshad de Gerus Vladislav Lomko José María López	CAT 4	LEC 4	ARA 5	SPA 3	POR 4	ALG 7	6th	69
2024	Cool Racing	LMP3	17	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56VE 5.6 L V8	Miguel Cristóvão Manuel Espírito Santo Cédric Oltramare (rounds 1–5)	CAT 2	LEC 5	IMO 8	SPA 3	MUG Ret	ALG 1	4th	75
		LMP2	37	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Lorenzo Fluxá Malthe Jakobsen Ritomo Miyata (rounds 1–2, 4–6) Paul-Loup Chatin	CAT 1	LEC Ret	IMO Ret	SPA 5	MUG 9	ALG 1	3rd	62
		LMP2	47	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Alex García (rounds 1–2) Frederik Vesti Paul-Loup Chatin (round 1–2) Ferdinand Habsburg (3–6) Carl Bennett (rounds 3–6)	CAT 12	LEC 2	IMO 10	SPA 11	MUG 13	ALG 3	9th	34
2025	CLX Motorsport	LMP3	17	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56VE 5.6 L V8	Adrien Closmenil Theodor Jensen Paul Lanchère	CAT 1	LEC 1	IMO 1	SPA Ret	SIL 1	ALG 1	1st	130
	CLX Motorsport	LMP2	47	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Manuel Espírito Santo Enzo Fittipaldi Pipo Derani (rounds 1–3) Sebastián Álvarez (round 4)	CAT Ret	LEC 3	IMO 5	SPA 6	SIL 12	ALG 6	6th	41
	CLX – Pure Rxcing	LMP2	37	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Tom Blomqvist (rounds 1–5) Alex Malykhin (rounds 1–5) Tristan Vautier (rounds 1–5)	CAT 4	LEC Ret	IMO 10	SPA 9	SIL Ret	ALG	11th	15
2026	CLX Motorsport	LMP3	17	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56VE 5.6 L V8	Paul Lanchère Alexander Jacoby Bruno Ribeiro (rounds 1–2) Louis Iglesias (rounds 3-6)	BAR 8	LEC 5	IMO 1	SPA 1	SIL 2	POR 1	1st	110
		LMP2	37	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Ian Aguilera Adrien Closmenil Theodor Jensen	BAR 8	LEC 6	IMO 8	SPA 7	SIL 5	POR 7	8th	36
		LMP2 Pro-Am	47	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Georgios Kolovos Charles Milesi Felipe Fraga (round 1) Ferdinand Habsburg (rounds 2-6)	BAR Ret	LEC 9	IMO 6	SPA 11	SIL 5	POR 2	9th	38

^* Season still in progress.

Asian Le Mans Series

Year	Entrant	Class	No	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	Pos.	Pts
2023	Cool Racing	LMP3	17	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56VE 5.6 L V8	Adrien Chila Cédric Oltramare Marcos Siebert	DUB 14	DUB Ret	ABU 6	ABU 2			8th	26
2023	Cool Racing	LMP2	37	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Alexandre Coigny Malthe Jakobsen Nicolas Lapierre (rounds 1–2)	DUB 8	DUB 5	ABU 1	ABU 3			2nd	54
2023-24	Cool Racing	LMP3	17	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56VE 5.6 L V8	Alexander Bukhantsov James Winslow Danial Frost (rounds 1–2) Manuel Espírito Santo (rounds 4–5)	SEP 1	SEP 3	DUB 1	ABU 2	ABU 2		1st	104
2023-24	Cool Racing	LMP2	47	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Alexandre Coigny (rounds 3–5) Lorenzo Fluxá (rounds 3–5) Vladislav Lomko (rounds 3–5)	SEP	SEP	DUB Ret	ABU 12	ABU 10		13th	1
2025-26	CLX Motorsport	LMP3	17	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56VE 5.6 L V8	Alexander Jacoby Paul Lanchère Kévin Rabin	SEP 3	SEP 1	DUB 5	DUB 3	ABU 1	ABU Ret	1st	96
2026-27	CLX Motorsport	LMP2	37	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Adrien Closmenil Louis Stern Matthieu Vaxivière

FIA World Endurance Championship

Year	Entrant	Class	No	Chassis	Engine	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pos.	Pts
2019–20	Cool Racing	LMP2	42	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2L V8	Antonin Borga Nicolas Lapierre Alexandre Coigny (rounds 2–7)	SIL 1	FUJ 5	SHA Ret	BHR 6	COA 4	SPA 2	LMS 4	BHR	6th	103

Notes

↑ The No. 42 Oreca was penalised 2 minutes and 3.880 seconds for Alexandre Coigny exceeding the maximum drive time of four hours in a six-hour period. The penalty demoted the car one position.

References

↑ "ABOUT US | COOL RACING". Retrieved 28 March 2024.
↑ "Cool Racing". www.cool-racing.ch. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
↑ "Cool Racing prend son indépendance". Endurance Info (in French). Retrieved 28 March 2024.
↑ Lloyd, Daniel (7 January 2021). "Cool to Focus on ELMS Under New Management Structure – Sportscar365". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 28 March 2024.
↑ "ELMS / Le Mans – Cool Racing devient CLX Motorsport". Endurance-Info (in French). 29 November 2024. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
↑ "Decision No. 122" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 20 September 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.

External links

Official website

[CoolRacing-7] The No. 42 Oreca was penalised 2 minutes and 3.880 seconds for Alexandre Coigny exceeding the maximum drive time of four hours in a six-hour period. The penalty demoted the car one position.

[1] "ABOUT US | COOL RACING". Retrieved 28 March 2024.

[2] "Cool Racing". www.cool-racing.ch. Retrieved 15 August 2020.

[3] "Cool Racing prend son indépendance". Endurance Info (in French). Retrieved 28 March 2024.

[4] Lloyd, Daniel (7 January 2021). "Cool to Focus on ELMS Under New Management Structure – Sportscar365". sportscar365.com. Retrieved 28 March 2024.

[5] "ELMS / Le Mans – Cool Racing devient CLX Motorsport". Endurance-Info (in French). 29 November 2024. Retrieved 29 November 2024.

[CoolPenalty-6] "Decision No. 122" (PDF). Automobile Club de l'Ouest. 20 September 2020. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2020.