Guerlain Chicherit
| Guerlain Chicherit | |
|---|---|
 Guerlain Chicherit | |
| Nationality |
 French |
| Born |
20 May 1978 Tignes, France |
| FIA World Rallycross Championship career | |
| Debut season | 2015 |
| Current team | Fors Performance |
| Car no. | 36 |
| Spotter | TBC |
| Former teams | JRM Racing |
| Starts | 9 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
Guerlain Chicherit (born 20 May 1978 in Paris) is a French rally driver and a professional skier, four times world champion in freeriding (1999, 2002, 2006 and 2007).
Biography
He made his debut in the French Rally Cup, driving a Citroën Saxo, and after the successes on 2003, he became an official Citroën driver.[1] In 2006, after winning the 2005 Dakar Challenge, he attended for his first Dakar, driving a BMW X3, winning a stage and finishing 9th on final classification.
In the 2009 Dakar Rally he suffered an accident while fighting the general classification,[2] and finished 9th.[3]
Later that year, after achieving a great results series, including 3rd place on Tunisia Rally, and wins on Rally Transibérico and UAE Desert Challenge, he won the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, with codriver Tina Thörner.[4]
In the 2010 Dakar Rally, Chicherit was able to get a stage win and finish fifth on the final classification with an X-Raid BMW.[5]
In the 2013 Dakar Rally, Chicherit won a stage and finished eight overall driving an SMG buggy.
In 2013, he became the first driver to complete an unassisted backflip in a car.[6]
In March 2014 Chicherit tried to break the world record for longest car ramp jump in Tignes, France. He crashed spectacularly on landing, but only suffered relatively minor injuries.
In August 2015 Chicherit joined JRM Racing for two events in the FIA World Rallycross Championship driving the MINI RX in the Supercar class in Loheac, France and Franciacorta, Italy.
In the 2016 Dakar Rally, Chicherit drove the X-Raid Buggy but retired on medical grounds following a steering related issue during SS5. He will not return to Dakar Rally with X-Raid in the future. Again, Chicherit joined the FIA World Rallycross Championship, teaming up with Monster Energy athlete Liam Doran at JRM Racing for selected events in France, Barcelona and Germany. However, a non-start for Chicherit in Loheac meant he also entered the inaugural event in Riga, Latvia.
Chicherit will drive a Renault Mégane in the 2018 FIA World Rallycross Championship.[7]
Racing record
Dakar Rally results
(key)
| Year | Class | Vehicle | Position | Stages won |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Car |  Mitsubishi |
10th | 0 |
| 2005 |  BMW |
DNF | 0 | |
| 2006 | DNF | 0 | ||
| 2007 | 6th | 1 | ||
| 2008 | Event cancelled – replaced by Central Europe Rally | |||
| 2009 | Car | BMW |
DSQ | 2 |
| 2010 | Volkswagen |
2nd | 4 | |
| 2011 | 1st | 4 | ||
| 2012 |  Hummer |
DNF | 2 | |
| 2013 | Demon Jefferies |
DNF | 3 | |
| 2014 |  Mini |
3rd | 2 | |
| 2015 | 1st | 5 | ||
| 2016 | 2nd | 2 | ||
| 2017 | Toyota |
DNF | 1 | |
Complete FIA World Rallycross Championship results
(key)
Supercar
| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | WRX | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | JRM Racing | MINI RX Countryman | POR |
HOC |
BEL |
GBR |
GER |
SWE |
CAN |
NOR |
FRA 28 |
BAR |
TUR |
ITA 16 |
ARG |
34th | 1 |
| 2016 | JRM Racing | MINI RX Countryman | POR |
HOC |
BEL |
GBR |
NOR |
SWE |
CAN |
FRA 31 |
BAR 20 |
LAT 21 |
GER 21 |
ARG |
26th | 0 | |
| 2017 | Fors Performance | Renault Clio IV | BAR 21 |
POR |
HOC 21 |
BEL 20 |
GBR |
NOR 19 |
SWE |
CAN |
FRA |
LAT |
GER |
RSA |
28th* | 0* | |
* Season still in progress.
RX2 International Series
| Year | Entrant | Car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | RX2 | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Olsbergs MSE | RX2 | BEL | GBR | NOR | SWE | CAN 15 |
FRA |
RSA |
23rd* | 2* |
* Season still in progress.
References
- ↑ "Vom Schnee zum Sand" (in German). 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
- ↑ "The film of the stage, Coma, alone in the Pampa, BMWs all over the place". Retrieved 2010-01-17.
- ↑ "2009 Dakar Rally final standings". Retrieved 2010-01-17.
- ↑ "Motorsport: Guerlain Chicherit fired up for Dakar Rally". 2010-01-02. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
- ↑ "Chicherit Wins First Stage in 2010 Dakar". 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2010-01-17.
- ↑ "Guerlain Chicherit's Car Backflip". 2013-03-04. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
- ↑ Evans, David (8 February 2017). "Prodrive building Renault Megane for 2018 World Rallycross". Autosport. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
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