The Ile-de-France club, so far the worst home team of the season, won its fifth success at the Arena, which allowed it to climb to 8th place, just behind its opponent of the day.
Clermont has not won at Nanterre since September 2018 and a demonstration 40 to 17.
But how laborious it was!
Fortunately, scrum-half Maxime Machenaud, who announced his departure for Bayonne at the end of the season in the middle of the week, was in a big day, scoring 16 points, including a try (24th).
Winger Teddy Thomas celebrated his hundredth appearance in the Ciel et Blanc jersey with a try (36th), the second of his season, imitated by young Anthime Hemery (62nd).
Before the second row Wenceslas Lauret (70th) definitely drives the point home.
Very unruly (13 penalties conceded, 14 balls lost), the Auvergnats could have hoped for better but the yellow card from Tomas Lavanini (48th) allowed Racing 92 to get out of the water and take the lead for the first time of a match taken from the right end.
The ASM, well in place, had thus registered three tries in the first period (Penaud 4th, Moala 21st, Fourcade 26th).
Insufficient to push the Hauts-de-Seine club.
The men of Laurent Travers, who, during the week, had refused to pay into the "sinistrosis", thus avoided to equal a sad record, old of ten years, when Grenoble, Montpellier, Perpignan, Toulouse then de Mont-de-Marsan had taken a bite of Racing 92 in the fall of 2012.
Racing can now turn to the European Cup, first on the ground of the Ospreys then with the reception of Northampton.
Clermont, for his part, receives Sale before facing the Irish from Ulster.
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