Stéphane
Sarrazin

Stéphane Sarrazin was born on 2 November 1975 in Barjac, France. He won the French Formula Renault championship in 1994. In 1999 he raced in International Formula 3000 and won a round at the Hungaroring. That same season he made his only Formula One start: at the 1999 Brazilian Grand Prix he stood in for the injured Luca Badoer at Minardi. He spun on lap 31 and scored no points. From 1999 to 2001 he tested for Prost, and in 2002, Toyota's first season, he tested for Toyota.

He raced in the Superfund World Series in 2003. In 2004 he switched to rallying, contesting two World Rally Championship events with a best result of fourth. He drove for Subaru, whose line-up also included Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson. He also took part in the 2004 Race of Champions.

In sportscars, he drove an Aston Martin DBR9 in the GT1 class of the 2006 American Le Mans Series. In 2007 he became a works driver for Peugeot, racing the new 908 HDi FAP. With Pedro Lamy he won three races and the 2007 Le Mans Series title. At the 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans he took pole position and finished second alongside Lamy and Sébastien Bourdais. In 2008 he won the 24 Hours of Spa in the Vitaphone Racing Team Maserati MC12. He took third on the 2009 Monte Carlo Rally and was second again at Le Mans. In 2010 he won the Le Mans Series for a second time and finished fourth on the Monte Carlo round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge.

In 2012 he was signed by Starworks Motorsport for the World Endurance Championship and was lined up to drive a Toyota TS030 Hybrid at Le Mans on a temporary basis in place of Hiroaki Ishiura. He joined Toyota full time in 2013, finished second at Le Mans with the team and won for Toyota for the first time in Bahrain. In 2014 he stayed with Toyota and also signed for Venturi in Formula E, finishing the series' opening race in Beijing in ninth place. In November 2014 he won the Tour de Corse, the final round of the 2014 European Rally Championship, his first international rally victory. In 2021 he entered the first season of Extreme E with Veloce Racing.

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