Yoann Bonato

Yoann Bonato (born 13 May 1983) is a French rally driver. He currently competes in the French Rally Championship and the WRC-2, the premier support category of the World Rally Championship, with customer Citroën team CHL Sport Auto. He also works as a development driver for Citroën's in-house customer support team PH Sport. Bonato won the French Rally Championship outright in 2017, 2018 and 2020, earning the title of "Champion of France."

Yoann Bonato

Yoann Bonato at the 2017 Wales Rally GB
Personal information
Nationality	French
Born	(1983-05-13) 13 May 1983 Saint-Martin-d'Hères, Isère, France
World Rally Championship record
Active years	2006–2007, 2009, 2016–2021
Co-driver	Benjamin Boulloud Denis Giraudet
Rallies	30
Championships	0
Rally wins	0
Podiums	0
Stage wins	0
Total points	4
First rally	2006 Tour de Corse
Last rally	2021 Monte Carlo Rally

After winning the French Rally Championship in 2017, PH Sport hired Bonato to be part of a team of drivers that would help Citroën develop a new R5 variant of their WRC car, the Citroën C3. Bonato gave the car its first full rally-spec test at the closing event of the French Championship Rallye du Var, as a Course Car. He, along with factory Citroën driver Stéphane Lefebvre, would give the C3 its competitive debut at the Tour de Corse the following year.

His co-driver since the beginning of his career is Benjamin Boulloud.

Rally results

Complete WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2006	Yoann Bonato	Renault Clio S1600	MON	SWE	MEX	ESP	FRA 32	ARG	ITA	GRE	GER	FIN	JPN	CYP	TUR	AUS	NZL	GBR	NC	0
2007	PH Sport	Citroën C2 R2	MON	SWE	NOR	MEX	POR	ARG	ITA	GRE	FIN 33	GER 30	NZL	ESP 32	FRA 19	JPN	IRE	GBR	NC	0
2009	Yoann Bonato	Suzuki Swift S1600	IRE 20	NOR	CYP	POR Ret	ARG	ITA 19	GRE	POL 16	FIN Ret	AUS	ESP	GBR					NC	0
2016	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën DS3 R5	MON 15	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR 16	ITA	POL Ret	FIN 18	GER 30	CHN C	FRA 13	ESP	GBR	AUS			NC	0
2017	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën DS3 R5	MON Ret	SWE	MEX	FRA Ret	ARG	POR 37	ITA	POL 18	FIN	GER 27	ESP 26	GBR 26	AUS				NC	0
2018	Yoann Bonato	Peugeot 208 R2	MON 15	SWE	MEX														28th	1
	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën C3 R5				FRA 10	ARG	POR	ITA	FIN	GER 26	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS
2019	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën C3 R5	MON 8	SWE	MEX	FRA 49	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA	FIN	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS C			20th	4
2020	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën C3 R5	MON 12	SWE	MEX	EST	TUR	ITA	MNZ										NC	0
2021	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën C3 R5	MON 13	ARC	CRO	POR	ITA	KEN	EST	BEL	GRE	FIN	ESP	MNZ					NC	0

* Season still in progress.

WRC-2 Results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	WDC	Points
2016	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën DS3 R5	MON 5	SWE	MEX	ARG	POR 7	ITA	POL Ret	FIN 9	GER 12	CHN C	FRA 3	ESP	GBR	AUS	12th	33
2017	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën DS3 R5	MON Ret	SWE	MEX	FRA Ret	ARG	POR 15	ITA	POL 5	FIN	GER 13	ESP 10	GBR 11	AUS		28th	11
2018	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën C3 R5	MON	SWE	MEX	FRA 2	ARG	POR	ITA	FIN	GER 11	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS		21st	18
2019	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën C3 R5	MON 1	SWE	MEX	FRA 12	ARG	CHL	POR	ITA	FIN	GER	TUR	GBR	ESP	AUS C	19th	25

WRC-3 results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos.	Points
2020	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën C3 R5	MON 3	SWE	MEX	EST	TUR	ITA	MNZ						12th	15
2021	CHL Sport Auto	Citroën C3 R5	MON 2	ARC	CRO	POR	ITA	KEN	EST	BEL	GRE	FIN	ESP	MNZ	16th	22

* Season still in progress.

JWRC Results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	WDC	Points
2006	Yoann Bonato	Renault Clio S1600	SWE	ESP	FRA 8	ARG	ITA	GER	FIN	TUR	GBR	24th	1
2007	PH Sport	Citroën C2 R2	NOR	POR	ITA	FIN 8	GER 7	ESP 8	FRA 3			9th	10
2009	Yoann Bonato	Suzuki Swift S1600	IRE 4	CYP	POR Ret	ARG	ITA 4	POL 3	FIN Ret	ESP		7th	16

External links

• ewrc-results.com profile
• Yoann Bonato's Facebook
• Yoann Bonato Twitter
• Yoann Bonato's website