Philo Paz Patric Armand (born 12 March 1996) is an Indonesian former racing driver.

Career

Karting

Born in Jakarta, Armand began

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in 2006, winning the Formula Cadet class of the Indonesian Karting Championship the following year. In 2009, he won the Junior class of the Indonesian Karting Championship and finished 13th in the

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KF3 Championship. In 2011, he finished 4th in the Asia-Pacific

KF1 KF1 is the top level of karting. It is open to drivers aged 15 and up. This class used to be called Formula A and has changed since January 2007 when CIK-FIA decided to replace the 100 cc water-cooled two-stroke engines with 125 cc Touch-an ...

Championship, and during the year he also became an official driver of the Tony Kart Racing Team. During his final year of karting in 2012, Armand finished 14th in the CIK-

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KF1

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, a title won by teammate Flavio Camponeschi.

Formula Renault 2.0

After making his

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debut in the Formula Renault BARC Winter Series in late 2012, Armand joined

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s to contest the

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. He finished 28th in the championship, with a best race result of eleventh coming in the final round in

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. He also contested four races of the

Formula Renault 2.0 Alps Formula Renault 2.0 Alps was a category of Formula Renault open-wheel racing, created by the merging of the Formula Renault 2.0 Middle European Championship (formerly known as Formula Renault 2.0 Switzerland) and Formula Renault 2.0 Italia. Ove ...

championship as a guest driver with

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. Armand switched to Formula Renault 2.0 Alps for a full-time campaign with Tech 1 Racing for the 2014 season. He finished 18th in the championship, with a best race result of fourth coming at the second round in Pau. He also took part in two rounds of the

Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Formula Renault Eurocup was a Formula Renault motor racing championship. Eurocup raced only on European circuits. It served as a support series to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series as part of the World Series by Renault from 2005 to 2015. Renault Sp ...

season with the team.

Formula Renault 3.5 Series

In 2015, Armand graduated to the Formula Renault 3.5 Series, racing alongside

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GP2 Series

He joined

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for the

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Racing record

Career summary

^† As Armand was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(

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

Complete GP2 Series results

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

References

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