{"id":547,"date":"2024-04-22T23:42:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T21:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gilmotorsport.com\/english\/?page_id=547"},"modified":"2024-04-25T21:33:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:33:37","slug":"rider-christophe-ponsson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gilmotorsport.com\/english\/rider-christophe-ponsson\/","title":{"rendered":"Rider – Christophe Ponsson"},"content":{"rendered":"
C<\/span><\/span>hristophe Ponsson was born on December 23, 1995 in Lyon.<\/p>\n

At 3 years old, Christophe already rides a Peewee 50 Yamaha. At the age of 7, he rode a KTM 65 Cross under the wise advice of Professor Chambon.<\/div>\n

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At the age of 8, he won the Belgian \u201cChild\u201d Pocket Bike Championship on his Polini 50 RR replica Chambon. Two years followed where Christophe enjoyed playing team sports such as handball, football, etc. but constantly asks his parents for the motorbike. So, at the age of 10, Christophe returned to motor sports by learning karting where he spent two seasons.<\/p>\n

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 <\/p>\nW<\/span><\/span>e recognize him as a good driver, which he confirmed to us at the age of 12 and a half when, for the first time, he drove a 315 HP Touring Cup weighing 880 kg on a big circuit. This Touring Cup was exactly the same as the one featured at the Race of Champions at Wembley in 2007, driven by greats such as Michael Schumacher, David Coulthard, Sebastien Loeb and many others.
\nChristophe shares this day of Touring Cup driving with St\u00e9phane Chambon, who for his retraining as a motorcycle driver is enjoying the rounds of the French rally championship. Needless to say, the specialists in the discipline have no chance against the king of skiing, St\u00e9phane Chambon.<\/p>\n

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Christophe’s parents thought that he would have tried to continue having fun in the car, but no! At the beginning of February 2009, Christophe again asked his parents to ride a motorcycle, hence the agreements of February 27, 2009 between St\u00e9phane Chambon and Gil Motor Sport<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Christophe is too young to ride on the big circuits. So, on March 5, 2009, St\u00e9phane Chambon gave him the Certificate of Aptitude for Motor Sport (CASM). It was that same day that he rode a 250 cc for the first time on a big circuit since his Pocket Polini 50 RR.<\/p>\n

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Since then, a training program on various European circuits has been set up by Gil Motor Sport<\/em> for Christophe:<\/p>\n

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31 may 2009<\/b>
Christophe goes to Ledenon for a day of riding<\/p><\/div>\n

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5th & 6th december 2009<\/b>
Chris rides a 600 CC Yamaha R6 for the first time at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, Spain<\/p><\/div>\n

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8th & 9th february 2010<\/b>
Gil Motor Sport<\/em> rents the entire Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, Spain<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>

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15th & 16th april 2011<\/b>
Christophe takes part in his first race in the Superstock 600 championship in Assen, Netherlands<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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14th april 2013<\/b>
Christophe’s first participation in a 1000 Superstock race in Aragon, Spain<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Season 2014<\/b>
Christophe rides in the BSB Championship in England for the team Bimota Alstare<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>

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Season 2015<\/b><\/a>
Christophe take the start in the World Superbike Championship, he’s the youngest rider in WSBK history<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Season 2016<\/b><\/a>
After one season in 1000 Superstock, Christophe will achieve its first podiums in Spain<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Season 2017<\/b><\/a>
Christophe rides in the Spanish Superstock 1000 Championship RFME<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>

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At the age of 8, he won the Belgian \u201cChild\u201d Pocket Bike Championship on his Polini 50 RR replica Chambon. Two years followed where Christophe enjoyed playing team sports such as handball, football, etc. but constantly asks his parents for the motorbike. So, at the age of 10, Christophe returned to motor sports by learning …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-547","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gilmotorsport.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gilmotorsport.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gilmotorsport.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gilmotorsport.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gilmotorsport.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gilmotorsport.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gilmotorsport.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}