page_title: Alexandre Cougnaud
section_title: European F3 Open
hierarchical_section_title: Alexandre Cougnaud / Career / European F3 Open
caption_attribution_description: English: Q2 Spa 2013
context_page_description: Alexandre Cougnaud is a French racing driver. who currently competes in the European Le Mans Series with Graff Racing.
context_section_description: In 2012, Cougnaud decided to race in "Copa/Cup Class" of the European F3 Open Championship for the Dallara F308 cars with Top F3 French team. He had a successful season, finishing 3rd in the overall classification of the Cup class with eight podiums.
  In 2013, Cougnaud joined the Italian team RP Motorsport to drive a Dallara F312 car. He and Santiago Urrutia were originally the two drivers chosen to drive a F312 car for Fabio Pampado's team; and they have been joined by Alexander Toril  and Sandy Stuvik to compete in the European F3 Open with a Dallara Formula 3 F312 as well.
  Cougnaud had some difficulties with the set-up of his car at the beginning of the season, especially in bad weather conditions and he also incurred several penalties, like at Silverstone, where he finished fifth in the second race but got a 30-second penalty after the race, so fifth place was for Stern.
  He had a good result at Jerez where he finished fourth in the first race, and third in the second one.
  At Monza, in October, he did his best performance of the season in the second race : pole position, P2 and fastest lap. He could not resist to his teammate Sandy Stuvik in the last lap.
  Cougnaud had a great finish of the season at Barcelona finishing in third position for the first race and winning the second one (his first victory in Formula 3).
caption: Cougnaud at Spa getting out of the box for Q2 session (F3).
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