Bertrand Gachot (born 23 December 1962) is a French former racing driver.

Career

Gachot was born in Luxembourg on 23 December 1962, the son of a French European Commission official and a German mother. He began karting at the age of 15. In 1983 he attended the Winfield School, a racing driving school in France. After this, he focused on his racing career, competing first in the Formula Ford 1600 series. In 1986, he won the British Formula Ford championship. Gachot joined the British Formula Three series in 1987, finishing second in the championship for the West Surrey Racing team. He switched to the Formula 3000 series in 1988, and met with some success. In 1991, Gachot was involved in a road rage incident with a taxi driver. Having sprayed the taxi driver with CS gas, Gachot was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for Actual Bodily Harm (ABH), but was released after two months (served in HMP Brixton) after an appeal against sentence was successful.