🇫🇷 French Drivers

The driver whose parents sold their house to fund his karting — and it worked

'El Diablo' — the first French rider to win the MotoGP premier-class world championship

The Parisian with Algerian roots who came through Red Bull's junior ranks with unusual quietness

A double Moto2 world champion who became the first French rider in decades to win in the MotoGP class

The Anthoine Hubert tribute driver who became an emotional leader in French motorsport

The most dominant champion in World Rally history, with nine consecutive titles and a gymnastics background that shaped his driving

The Professor who played tennis, invested in football clubs, and calculated everything

A Ferrari title contender whose F1 career ended in a near-fatal crash, before he was killed years later racing powerboats

A long-serving Ligier star who, after racing, became the warm, familiar voice of French F1 television coverage for decades

F1's most beloved nearly-man, who waited six years for his only win — and got it on his 31st birthday

A race-winning Tyrrell mainstay whose love of motorcycles and hang-gliding worried his own team as much as his rivals did

The driver on the other side of one of Formula 1's most legendary wheel-to-wheel battles, at Dijon in 1979

The man who walked out of a burning car and drove again six weeks later