Racing drivers from France

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Below are the top French racing drivers according to the currently available data on Driver Database. The drivers are displayed in different categories.

Race wins

The French drivers with the biggest number of wins.

1.	Yvan Muller	117
2.	Christophe Bouchut	103
3.	Nicolas Milan	92
4.	Soheil Ayari	89
5.	Alain Prost	83
6.	Dominique Dupuy	80
7.	Kévin Estre	79
8.	Sébastien Bourdais	77
	Raymond Narac	77
10.	Emmanuel Collard	75
11.	Frédéric Makowiecki	71
12.	Bob Wollek	67
13.	Benoît Tréluyer	62
	Alain Ferté	62
15.	Eric Hélary	60
	Laurent Aïello	60
17.	David Zollinger	59
18.	Anthony Beltoise	57
19.	Romain Dumas	56
20.	Julien Briché	54

Number of races

The French drivers with the biggest number of race starts.

1.	Yvan Muller	738
2.	Sébastien Bourdais	512
3.	Frédéric Makowiecki	483
4.	Bob Wollek	466
5.	Anthony Beltoise	443
6.	Soheil Ayari	442
7.	Jacques Laffite	441
8.	Loïc Duval	435
	Emmanuel Collard	435
10.	Christophe Bouchut	426
11.	Romain Grosjean	401
12.	Eric Cayrolle	393
13.	Simon Pagenaud	362
14.	Raymond Narac	361
15.	Jean Alesi	359
16.	Jean-Luc Beaubelique	357
	Alain Ferté	357
	Olivier Panis	357
19.	Franck Perera	355
20.	Jean-Pierre Jarier	353

Race win percentage

The French drivers with the highest race win percentage.
A minimum of 30 race starts is need to make it into this list.

1.	Romain Houllier	54.4%
2.	Louis Rousset	50%
3.	Manuel Béguinot	40%
4.	Max Jean	36.7%
5.	Jean-Paul Pagny	35.6%
6.	Romain Lutter	33.3%
7.	Laurent Guerinaud	31%
8.	Alain Prost	30.4%
	Olivier Couvreur	30.4%
10.	Jean-Pascal Burguet	30%
11.	Philippe Illiano	29%
12.	Sylvain Debs	28.9%
13.	Patrice Gay	28.6%
14.	Gilles Rousseau	28.2%
	Bernard Moreau	28.2%
16.	Romain Carton	28.1%
17.	Sébastien Enjolras	27.8%
18.	Antoine Jung	27.7%
19.	Nicolas Milan	27.6%
20.	Dominique Brulon	27.3%

Pole positions

The French drivers with the biggest number of pole positions.
Only pole positions from timed qualifying sessions.

1.	Soheil Ayari	91
2.	Sébastien Bourdais	65
	Yvan Muller	65
4.	Nicolas Milan	63
5.	Alain Prost	60
6.	Kévin Estre	58
7.	Anthony Beltoise	57
8.	David Zollinger	53
9.	Eric Hélary	49
	Dominique Dupuy	49
11.	Christophe Bouchut	48
	Frédéric Makowiecki	48
13.	Alain Ferté	45
14.	Romain Grosjean	44
	Bob Wollek	44
	Emmanuel Collard	44
17.	Jean-Eric Vergne	43
18.	Laurent Aïello	39
19.	Julien Briché	37
20.	Eric Cayrolle	36

Fastest race laps

The drivers with the biggest number of fastest laps set in races.

1.	Soheil Ayari	96
2.	Yvan Muller	90
3.	Nicolas Milan	67
4.	Alain Prost	64
5.	Sébastien Bourdais	63
	Frédéric Makowiecki	63
7.	Kévin Estre	55
8.	Anthony Beltoise	52
9.	Dominique Dupuy	50
	Laurent Groppi	50
11.	Romain Grosjean	48
12.	Benoît Tréluyer	47
13.	William David	46
14.	Julien Briché	45
15.	Jean-Philippe Dayraut	43
16.	Laurent Aïello	42
17.	Patrick Pilet	41
	Renaud Derlot	41
	Yann Ehrlacher	41
20.	Franck Montagny	40

Driver Database Ranking

Ratings of the top French drivers in the Driver Database Ranking.

1.	Nicolas Minassian	1559.45
2.	Patrice Gay	1550.5
3.	Laurent Delahaye	1550.1
4.	Franck Montagny	1544.65
5.	Soheil Ayari	1542.25
6.	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	1541.05
7.	Jean-Christophe Ravier	1531.9
8.	Jonathan Cochet	1527.05
9.	Jean Alesi	1522.05
10.	Stéphane Sarrazin	1518.2
11.	Didier André	1517.75
12.	Érik Comas	1516.2
13.	Benoît Tréluyer	1511.35
14.	Sébastien Philippe	1506.45
15.	Sébastien Bourdais	1506.15
16.	Mathieu Zangarelli	1504.95
17.	Laurent Aïello	1500.95
18.	Jérôme Dalla Lana	1500.25
19.	Eric Cayrolle	1498.6
20.	Tristan Gommendy	1497.75