Christian Lavieille

Christian Lavieille

Christian Lavieille (born December 16, 1965 in Villefranche-sur-Saône , Département Rhône , France ) is a French motorcycle racer and rally driver .

Career

Lavieille competed in the Superbike World Championship from 1988 and was able to collect world championship points in the 1990 , 1991 , 1993 and 1997 seasons . The highlights of his career were the victories in the 24-hour race Bol d'Or in 1996, 1999 and 2001. His last two victories were in the Suzuki endurance team. When 24-hour motorcycle race in Le Mans he was in 1994 and 2000 runner-up. In the late 1990s he always achieved top positions in the motorcycle endurance world championship , which he won in 1998, 2001 and 2002.

Lavieille was also briefly active in GT racing. From 2001 to 2002 he took part in the FIA GT Championship in the Porsche 996 GT3-RS . In 2003 he competed in the Seat Toledo of the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race . At the 24-hour race at Le Mans , he finished fifth in the GT classification in a Porsche in 2002 and 2004.

In 2003 Lavieille took first at the Dakar Rally in part and denied in 2004 in the Dessoude team regularly marathon rallies . Since 2007 he has owned a Nissan Navara belonging to the former Nissan factory team. In the same year he finished second in the Tunisia Rally and won the Pharaohs Rally . In 2008 he was able to repeat his success at the Pharaohs rally. He finished the Rally Tunisia in third place. Lavieille was also the overall winner of the Transsyberia Rally in a Porsche Cayenne . On the other hand, he had bad luck on the sixth stage of the 2009 Dakar Rally , as his car burned down.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2002	Luc Alphand Aventures	Porsche 996 GT3 RS	Luc Alphand	Olivier Thévenin	Rank 24
2004	Luc Alphand Aventures	Porsche 996 GT3 RS	Luc Alphand	Philippe Alméras	Rank 16

Web links

• Christian Lavieille on the official website of the Superbike and Supersport World Championship