Alexandre Prémat

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Alexandre Prémat (born April 5, 1982) is a race car driver born in Juvisy-sur-Orge, France. Prémat started his motorsport career in karting at the age of 10. He continued karting until 2000 when he moved up to French Formula Campus, a common starting point for Formula drivers from France. He quickly moved up to French Formula Renault in 2001, and after familiarising himself with the series, won the title in 2002. In 2002 he also raced in part of the Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup.

With the merger of several national Formula 3 championships in 2003, Prémat moved to the resultant Formula Three Euroseries, driving for the ASM team with Olivier Pla, another driver who raced in the inaugural GP2 season. He stayed there for the 2004 season, also winning the prestigious Macau Grand Prix and Marlboro Masters non-championship races.

This earned him a drive in the 2005 GP2 Series, for ART Grand Prix, the team ran by Nicolas Todt. He was behind team-mate Nico Rosberg, but was the highest-place second driver in the championship. Alex remained, alongside the young British driver Lewis Hamilton for 2006, though he was overshadowed, as he finished third whilst Hamilton took the honours.

Prémat also drove the A1 Team France car in A1 Grand Prix in the 2005-06 season, he and team-mate Nicolas Lapierre winning the title for their nation. Alex did not return to the series for the following season, and the French team's form has noticeably dropped.

Prémat drove the third Spyker MF1 Racing car at the 2006 Chinese Grand Prix. ^[1]</ref> He also had an off-season test with Champ Car team Mi-Jack Conquest Racing. Prémat had the quickest time in several sessions and stated that he is targeting a ride in Champ Cars for 2007^[2], although another possibility is a drive in Formula One with Spyker, either as their second race driver or as one of their test drivers.