Silvio Bachot

Silvio Bachot (born 25th December 1952 in Metz, Grand Est, France) is a French former racing driver who competed under a Belgian licence best known for his appearances in Formula One. After 2 seperate European Formula Two stints (in 1970-1972 and in 1976-1977), in which he gained a reputation for being an excellent qualifier and a very aggressive driver, although he had tendencies to randomly alternate his pace in races and was notorious for having large accidents, most notably at Enna-Pergusa in 1977, where he crashed and his car ended up in the lake, but was not seriously injured. He was initially signed by the financially troubled Shadow Racing Team for an F1 seat in 1978, with him also driving for North Star Racing at the Belgian Grand Prix, where Shadow were not participating and North Star's existing driver Anton Roche was already contracted to Ligier for that race. He raced under a Belgian license due [insert reason here] He later founded both the Bachot Grand Prix and the GB Racing teams.

Complete Formula 1 Results

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Points	WDC
1978	Shadow Racing Team	Shadow DN5B	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ARG	RSA	USW	ESP DNPQ		MON	FRA	TUS	GBR	SUI	NED	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA	0*	—*
	North Star Racing	Lola T980	Renzo DFV-2 3.0 V8					BEL

*Season still in progress