🇫🇷 Stéphane Sarrazin

Stéphane Sarrazin is an established professional who spent sixteen seasons racing in single-seater and multiclass endurance championships. He raced Formula 1 once in 1999 for Minardi, competed in International Formula 3000 from 1998 to 2001, and spent most of his indexed career in the WEC from 2012 to 2019, primarily for SMP Racing and Toyota Racing in LMP1 and LMP2 machinery. His career rating is 4,970.[1]

Sarrazin took two wins in Formula 3000 and one in the FIA GT Championship, but the bulk of his results came in WEC endurance racing, where he accumulated five wins and 24 podiums across 52 starts. He drove for Starworks Motorsports in 2012 when the team won the LMP2 title, and later for Toyota Racing during its championship years in LMP1; he contested three rounds in 2019 before retiring, finishing 16th in the championship standings. His strongest single-seater result was a podium finish in Formula E, though he managed only one across 33 starts in that series.[2]

In the WEC, Sarrazin regularly competed alongside Nick Heidfeld, the 1999 Formula 3000 champion and an established professional with extensive Formula 1 and Formula E experience, and finished closely matched with him. He was also a regular teammate of Sébastien Buemi, an elite professional who won multiple WEC and Formula E titles; Sarrazin typically finished behind Buemi in their shared races. Among drivers who raced at a higher level, Sarrazin finished ahead of Oliver Rowland, the elite professional and 2015 Formula V8 3.5 champion, once, and ahead of Mitch Evans, a GP2 and Formula E regular, four times.