RACING DRIVER

Thierry Sabine

1949 - 1986

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Thierry Sabine (13 June 1949, Neuilly-sur-Seine – 14 January 1986, Mali) was a French wrangler, motorcycle racer and founder and main organizer of the Dakar Rally. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thierry Sabine is the 146th most popular racing driver (down from 98th in 2019), the 2,840th most popular biography from France (down from 2,245th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Thierry Sabine ranks 146 out of 1,080Before him are Mika Salo, John Watson, Ove Andersson, Renzo Zorzi, Ricardo Rodríguez, and David Coulthard. After him are Ken Block, Jarno Trulli, David Purley, Willy Mairesse, Stefan Bellof, and Juan Pablo Montoya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Thierry Sabine ranks 220Before him are Mineko Iwasaki, Dick Nanninga, David Foster, Rasim Delić, Brent Spiner, and Tadashi Yanai. After him are José Pékerman, Philip Michael Thomas, Bill Bruford, Rick Wakeman, Papa Wemba, and Ottavia Piccolo. Among people deceased in 1986, Thierry Sabine ranks 109Before him are Elisabeth Bergner, Cheikh Anta Diop, Michael, Prince of Montenegro, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Gardner Fox, and Ilmari Salminen. After him are Scatman Crothers, Vitaly Abalakov, Raúl Prebisch, Valentin Kataev, Ruth Teitelbaum, and John Bagot Glubb.

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In France

Among people born in France, Thierry Sabine ranks 2,840 out of 6,770Before him are Charles Floquet (1828), Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse (1732), Julius Leber (1891), Marcel Griaule (1898), Jean Raspail (1925), and Sophie de Condorcet (1764). After him are Armand Trousseau (1801), Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1555), Georges Leclanché (1836), André Salmon (1881), Carlo Andrea Pozzo di Borgo (1764), and Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813).

Among RACING DRIVERS In France

Among racing drivers born in France, Thierry Sabine ranks 23Before him are Jean Behra (1921), Paul Frère (1917), Paul Belmondo (1963), Henri Pescarolo (1942), Sébastien Loeb (1974), and Guy Ligier (1930). After him are Olivier Panis (1966), Raymond Sommer (1906), Louis Rosier (1905), Didier Auriol (1958), Toulo de Graffenried (1914), and Érik Comas (1963).