Sébastien Gimbert

Infobox Superbike rider
Name = Sébastien Gimbert


Nationality = flagicon|France French
Birthdate = September 9, 1977
Birthplace = Le Puy-en-Velay, France
Bike number = 194
Current team = Yamaha France Ipone GMT 94
Championships = 0
Race Starts = 50
Race Wins = 0
Podiums = 0
Poles = 0
Fastest laps = 1
Last season = 2008
Last position = 23 (3pts)

Sébastien Gimbert (born September 9, 1977 in Le Puy-en-Velay, France) is a professional motorcycle road racer. He currently cometes in the Superbike World Championship. His greatest success has come in the Endurance World Championship, and the bulk of his career has been spent on Yamaha YZF-R1 motorcycles.

He was France's 250cc champion in 1996 and 1997, before moving up to the 500cc World Championship on a privately entered Honda in 1998 and 1999, and racing in the 250cc World Championship in 2000, without many front-running displays.

From 2002 to 2004 he was primarily an endurance racer. He has won the biggest 24-hour races in the sport - Le Mans, Spa-Francorchamps and the Bol d'Or. He helped the team to the Endurance World Championship in 2004.

He also remained active in shorter races, finishing 2nd in the French Super Production series in 2003 and doing several rounds a year later. He also raced his R1 in 3 Superbike World Championship races, taking a pair of 4th places despite 2 slow starts at Magny-Cours in SBK|2004, a year with few manfuacturer backed bikes. As a result of this, he was hired by Yamaha Motor France as their second rider in WSBK for SBK|2005. He finished 16th overall in SBK|2005, and 19th (without a top 10 finish) in SBK|2006.

He raced in the Supersport World Championship for WorldSS|2007 finishing 20th overall. He also won the 2007 Bol d'Or endurance race.

External links

* [http://www.sebgimbert.com sebgimbert.com] Official website