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Lucian Sonea
Lucian Sonea
JoinedSeptember 19, 2021
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Lucian, a French-Romanian citizen, lives in Paris, France. He developed a strong interest in motor racing, especially sports cars and endurance racing, which dates back to the early ‘90s. He was involved in many projects, racing programs and championships in Europe and the US with different racing teams. These included the German Porsche privateer team, Seikel Motorsport, and the French motorsport group ORECA. His roles have progressed from media and marketing manager, to more operational functions including, race strategist, data engineer and also team manager. Lucian also works as a specialist commentator for EUROSPORT (Romanian version) during the Le Mans 24-Hours. A long time Porsche enthusiast (Le Mans 24-Hours, Porsche Carrera Cup, GT championship, and endurance racing), Lucian has had the chance to diversify and work with other sports car brands including Lotus, Lamborghini (French GT vice champion with Ruffier Racing) and Ferrari (Ferrari Challenge Europe 2012 and 2013). His racing hero is a French driver, Francois Cevert, who had a very promising career but who died while qualifying for the US GP in 1973. Francois was different from the other drivers of his time, especially the French drivers of his generation, because he learnt from the best as to how he should progress his driving style and simultaneously build a career. His mentor was Jackie Stewart who said about Cevert, that the French people could not imagine what an ambassador Cevert was for France, in the world. Lucian’s most memorable racing ‘souvenir’ memory was when he travelled to the Sebring 12-Hour race with the Seikel team in 2004. In 2006, Lucian worked with Daniel Droit Racing, a small French Porsche privateer team and professional driver Christophe Tinseau in the French Carrera Cup, for a challenging racing season.
Events

Porsche at Retromobile 2020

1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Lightweight presented by Serge Heitz Automobile Between 5th and 9th February, the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Centre in Paris hosted the 2020 edition of Retromobile. This year’s edition, boosted by the continuing success of previous years, was considered a huge success as massive crowds...
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Carrera Cup

Porsche Carrera Cup France 2018 prize giving ceremony

The 2018 prize giving ceremony for the Porsche Carrera Cup France took place on Wednesday 30 January in Paris. Not only were all the main actors in this intensely competitive championship present for this occasion, but also the official Porsche works driver Patrick Pilet and other media, journalists and racing...
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Carrera Cup

Porsche Carrera Cup France 2018 Season Preview

As the main racing championships are about to begin the 2018 season, the Porsche Carrera Cup France has seen its first collective Testing Day on the circuit of Nevers Magny Cours, on the 20 March. Despite poor weather all over France, the Porsche Carrera Cup France 2018 test day was held...
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Events

Porsche cars at the 2018 Rétromobile

Porsche 959 Coupé (only 292 models produced in 1988 in order to obtain Group B racing homologation), 6-cylinder boxer turbo, 2849cc, 450bhp Open to visitors from Wednesday 7th to Sunday 11th February, the 2018 edition of Rétromobile held in Paris at the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Park has been a...
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Carrera Cup

Julien Andlauer leads after Magny-Cours

Last weekend the competitors in the French Carrera Cup travelled to Nevers Magny-Cours for the fourth race meeting of the 2017 season, for rounds six and seven of the Porsche Carrera Cup France. The series accompanied the newly created GT4 Southern Cup and other French racing series. The 4.4km racetrack...
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Carrera Cup

Porsche Supercup action at the Hungaroring

Thirty drivers took part in last Sunday’s round of the Mobil 1 Porsche Supercup action at the Hungaroring. This was the fifth Supercup meeting of the season (although the sixth race), and coincided with the Hungarian Formula 1 Grand Prix weekend. The thrilling Hungarian track, located north of Budapest, has...
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Carrera Cup

Porsche Carrera Cup Le Mans 2017

Every year, during the Le Mans 24 Hours weekend, some other motor racing series shares the paddock and the race track with the 60 teams taking part at the race world’s famous endurance event. For the 2017 edition, there were two series to accompany the race week: Road to Le...
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Carrera Cup

Porsche Carrera Cup France – 2016 Season Review

2016 represented the year of the 30th consecutive season of the French Porsche Carrera Cup, one of the most competitive and longest-running one-make series in Europe. It is a fact that a number of Porsche Carrera Cup France champions are today official Porsche factory drivers: Patrick Pilet (champion in 2007),...
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