Stéphane Lefebvre

Stéphane Lefebvre

Nation:	France
World Rally Championship (WRC)
First rally:	Rally France 2013
Last rally:	Rally Monte Carlo 2016
Co-driver:	Stéphane Prévot Thomas Dubois
Team:	Citroën Total World Rally Team
Vehicle:	Citroën DS3 WRC
Rallies Victories Podiums WP 22nd - - -
Points:	15th
Status: After 1 of 14 rallies, season 2016

Stéphane Lefebvre (born March 16, 1992 in Noeux-les-Mines ) is a French rally driver. He is the first rally driver to win the Junior World Rally Championship (JWRC) and the Junior European Rally Championship (JERC) in the same year (2014) . The nine-time rally world champion Sébastien Loeb supports his compatriot in planning his career.

Career

Stéphane Lefebvre made his debut in 2010 in the Twingo R2 Trophy , where he impressed with podium places and a win. In 2011 and 2012 Lefebvre took part in various national and international championships. From 2011, Thomas Dubois sat in the passenger seat of the Peugeot 207 and accompanied him until the 2014 season . In 2012, the duo won the Rallye du Touguet and they finished second overall in the French Junior Trophy as Peugeot Rally Academy drivers . In 2013, he ran in the European Rally Championship (ERC) with a Peugeot 208 R2 . In the Volant Peugeot series , Lefebvre took fifth place with a car from last year. Lefebvre achieved his greatest success in 2014 when he won the WRC3 and the JWRC series . With victories at the Rally Portugal , Poland and Germany , he finished first in the WRC3 with a Citroën DS 3 R3T.

The year 2015 started successfully for Lefebvre with a victory in the Monte Carlo Rally , in the WRC2 . His co-driver Thomas Dubois resigned for family and professional reasons. Stéphane Prévot is new to the passenger seat of the Citroën DS3 R5 . At the Rallye Deutschland , Lefebvre started for the first time in the highest rally class, WRC, with a Citroën DS3 WRC from the factory team. With a second place in a special stage and a tenth place overall, Lefebvre impressed on his debut.

Individual results WRC

year	team	vehicle	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	13	Points	rank
2013	Stéphane Lefebvre	Peugeot 208 VTi R2	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	GRE	ITA	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		-	-
													20th
2014	Stéphane Lefebvre	Citroën DS3 R3T	MON	SWE	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		-	-
						26th			19th	45	19th
		Citroën DS3 R5
														DNF	35
2015	Citroën World Rally Team	Citroën DS3 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	OUT	FRA	ESP	GBR		5	19th
											10	13	11	50	8th
	PH Sports	Citroën DS3 R5
			12	DNF	DNF	DNF	15th
	PH Sports	Citroën DS3 RRC
								26th	DNF	EX
2016	Abu Dhabi Total WRT	Citroën DS3 WRC	MON	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR	ITA	POLE	FIN	DEU	CHN	FRA	ESP	GBR	OUT	10	9
			5

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	P / bold	Pole position
	SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ewrc-results.com: Stéphane Lefebvre , accessed on August 31, 2015

Web links

Commons : Stéphane Lefebvre  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (French)