Christian Sarron

Christian Sarron (No. 4) in front of his brother Dominigue at the 1989 Japanese Grand Prix

Christian Sarron (born March 27, 1955 in Clermont-Ferrand , Puy-de-Dôme , France ) is a former French motorcycle racer .

Between 1976 and 1990 he contested a total of 148 races on Yamaha in the motorcycle world championship and won the title in the 250 cc class in 1984 .

Sarron made his debut in 1976 in the world championship in the class up to 250 cc. A year later, in the rain race at the Hockenheimring , he achieved his first victory. Only five years later and again in the rain, at the Finnish Grand Prix 1982 , did the second victory follow. The following year, 1983 , Sarron was able to take second place in the World Championship behind Carlos Lavado with another victory . In 1984 he finally achieved three victories of the season and the title.

For the following season, Sarron switched to the class up to 500 cm³. His only win in this class was in 1985 in the rain at Hockenheim. He finished third in the overall World Cup rankings as the best results in 1985 and 1989 .

In 1995 he retired from active racing and became team manager of the Yamaha Superbike team.

Statistics in the motorcycle world championship

GP victories: 7
Podiums: 37
Pole positions : 11
Fastest race laps: 10
GP starts:	250 cc: 42
	350 cc: 14
	500 cc: 98

Greatest successes

year class World Cup place 1977 350 cc 7th 1979 500 cc 11. 1982 250 cc 10. 350 cc 8th. 1983 250 cc 2. 1984 250 cc 1.

year class World Cup place 1985 500 cc 3. 1986 500 cc 6th 1987 500 cc 7th 1988 500 cc 4th 1989 500 cc 3. 1990 500 cc 9.

• 1994: Victory at the Bol d'Or with Yasutomo Nagai and Dominique Sarron .

Web links

• Christian Sarron on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
• Portrait at bike70.com (French)