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CRISTINA GUTIÉRREZ

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Passionate about motorsport from a young age, Cristina Gutiérrez has carved out a hugely successful career in the world of off-road racing. Regularly excelling in the Dakar Rally, her first taste of competition came in 2011 when she took part in the All-Terrain Spanish Rally Championships. Despite it being her first high-profile race, the Spaniard would finish top of the female category. Cristina continued to dominate the Championships for the next five years, finishing top of her category on each occasion, while in 2015 she secured second-place overall in the mixed-gender category.

 

After six consecutive wins on home soil, Cristina decided to explore the world of Rally Raid, competing in the 2016 edition of the Sealine Cross-Country Rally in Qatar. Showcasing her natural talent, she would claim victory in the women’s category, a result that convinced the Spanish driver she was ready to test her skills in the famed Dakar Rally.

 

In 2017, Cristina made her Dakar debut and became the first woman from Spain to ever finish the off-road classic in a car. She would replicate this feat the following year before achieving her best result in 2019, securing 26th place overall.

 

2020 would see Cristina yet again finish the Dakar, while one year later she would carve her name into the record books when she became just the second woman ever to achieve a stage victory in the legendary rally.

 

Following this impressive performance, Cristina chose to embark on a new adventure, joining the first edition of Extreme E – an FIA-sanctioned international off-road racing series that uses spec electric SUVs. Racing for Lewis Hamilton’s Team X44, alongside the legendary Sébastien Loeb, the duo finished third in the first race of the series, the 2021 Desert X-Prix in Saudi Arabia.

 

Cristina followed this up with another hugely impressive display, claiming the overall victory in the T3 class at Rally Andalucia to hand the Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team their first-ever rally win.

 

Later in 2021, Cristina made yet more history as she became the first-ever female driver to win the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. She also finished in second place overall in the inaugural Extreme E championship alongside team-mate Sébastien Loeb.

 

In 2022, Cristina returned to the Dakar Rally and had another excellent performance by finishing in third place overall, giving the Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team their first top-three result in the Dakar and becoming the first Spanish woman to step onto the final podium of the rally. In addition, later that year during the second season of Extreme E, Cristina and her teammate Sébastien Loeb were crowned Extreme E World Champions. This made Gutiérrez the first athlete, regardless of gender, of Spanish nationality in history to win the championship in this sport.

 

During 2023, Cristina Gutiérrez would complete her seventh Dakar with a stage victory, finishing 4th in T3 and being the highest-ranked Spanish driver of both genders in the general standings, occupying the 31st position in the car category. With regard to the third season of Extreme E, the driver will try to defend her championship title along with her new teammate, Fraser McConnell, in X44, Lewis Hamilton’s racing team.

4 things you did not know about Cristina Gutiérrez

Although it has made history in cars and side by side, what Cristina first drove was a motorcycle, when she was 6 years old.

The love for the engine runs in the family. In fact, Cristina took her first steps in motor racing accompanied by her brother as a co-driver.

In addition to being a professional pilot, Cristina is a dentist. Until 2014 she combined her career as a pilot with her studies, which she finished that year.

The year 2016 marked a turning point in his career: he participated in the FIA Qatar Campus and met Jutta Kleinschmidt.

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2011
2011

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship
  • Lower lands of the Cid (Burgos): 2nd best time.

 

  • La Janda TT Rally (Cádiz): 2nd category T2.2.

 

  • Rally TT Baja Andalucía: 1st female driver.

 

  • Baja Aragón / Spain: 7th category T2.2.
2012
2012

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship
  • Rally Sprint Quintadueñas (Burgos): 1st category TT; 1st Scratch; 1st female rider.

 

  • Baja Aragón / Spain: 2nd general classification category T2.2; 1st FIA female driver.
2013
2013

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship
  • Spanish Women’s Champion All Terrain Rallies CERTT 2013

 

  • Spanish All-Terrain Rally Championship (CERTT) 2013: 3rd overall overall classification, category T2.2.

 

  • Rally TT Baja Andalucía: 1st female driver.

 

  • Baja Aragón / Spain: 1st FIA female driver.

 

  • Rally TT Altas Tierras de Lorca: 1st female driver. rally low lands of Lorca.
2014
2014

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship
  • Spanish All-Terrain Rally Championship (CERTT) 2014: 7th overall overall classification; 4th category T1 absolute.

 

  • Baja Aragon / Spain: 3rd Mitsubishi Evo-Cup; 1st FIA female driver.

 

  • Lowlands of the South: 1st female driver.

 

  • Guadalajara TT Rally: 7th general classification; 3rd Mitsubishi Evo-Cup.
2015
2015

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship
  • She was awarded a scholarship by the FIA as one of the three best drivers in the world to race the 2016 Sealine Cross Country in Qatar.

 

  • 12 Hours TT Serón: 7th general classification; 2nd Mitsubishi Evo-Cup.

 

  • Guadalajara TT Rally: 3rd overall classification.

 

  • Baja Burgos: 2nd general classification; 2nd Mitsubishi Evo-Cup.

 

  • Baja Almanzora: 4th overall, 2nd Mitsubishi Evo-Cup.

 

  • Baja TT Tierras de Lorca, Lorca Rally: 3rd Mitsubishi Evo-Cup.

 

  • Baja Aragon / Spain: 2nd Mitsubishi Evo-Cup; 1st FIA female driver.
2015

Absolute runner-up of the Spanish Rally Championship

Absolute runner-up of the Spanish Rally Championship
  • Baja Almanzora: 4th overall, 2nd Mitsubishi Evo-Cup.

 

  • Baja TT Tierras de Lorca, Lorca Rally: 3rd Mitsubishi Evo-Cup.

 

  • Baja Aragon / Spain: 2nd Mitsubishi Evo-Cup; 1st FIA female driver.
2016
2016

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship

Champion in the female category of the Spanish TT Rally Championship
  • Mar de Olivos TT Rally: 20th overall classification; 4th Mitsubishi Evo-Cup.

 

  • Rally TT Lleida Pirineus: 1st female driver.
2016

Sealine Cross-Country Rally Women’s Champion

Sealine Cross-Country Rally Women’s Champion
  • Ranked among the top three drivers on the FIA Qatar Campus, out of the 9 finalist drivers (selected from more than 180 candidates from around the world).

 

  • Sealine Cross Country: Champion among the three selected drivers (FIA Test).
2017
2017

44th Classified in the Dakar Rally

44th Classified in the Dakar Rally
  • Dakar Rally of 2017, 44th in the general classification and 6th in the T1.S. DKR Raid Service team. Number # 360 (Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina).

 

  • Low TT Dehesa de Extremadura: 3rd General Classification; 1st category T1.N.

 

  • Baja Aragón / Spain: 24th General classification; 5th CERTT; 1st Evo Cup; 1st female rider.

 

  • Isla de los volcanes Rally: 13th General Classification.

 

  • Rally TT Cuenca: 4th General Classification; 1st Evo Cup; 1st female rider.

 

  • Spanish All-Terrain Rally Championship CERTT 2017: 6th overall classification.
2018
2018

38th Classified in the Dakar Rally

38th Classified in the Dakar Rally
  • Dakar Rally of 2018, 38th in the general classification and 2nd in its category T1.S. DKR Raid service team. Number # 354.

 

  • Rally Terra da Auga: 13th General Classification; 2nd Group N; 3rd Evo Cup; 1st Class 1.

 

  • Baja Aragón / Spain: 32nd overall classification; 2nd female driver.

 

  • Guadalajara TT Rally: 9th General Classification; 5th CERTT; 5th category T1.
2019
2019

26th Classified in the Dakar Rally

26th Classified in the Dakar Rally
  • 2019 Dakar Rally, 26th overall classification; 23rd category T1; 7th category T1.2.

 

  • G-Series Credit Andorra: 2nd place. Pas de la Casa de Andorra ice circuit.

 

  • Baja Aragón / Spain: 20th overall classification; 1st female rider.
2020
2020

42nd Classified in the Dakar Rally

42nd Classified in the Dakar Rally
  • 2020 Dakar Rally, 42nd overall classification; 40th category T1; 7th category T1.2.

 

  • Rally Terra da Auga: 18th General Classification; 1st Group N; 11th Class 1.

 

  • Andalucía Rally: 8th general classification.

 

  • Spanish Rally Championship: 36th General Classification.
2021
2021

Winner of the first stage of the 2021 Dakar Rally

Winner of the first stage of the 2021 Dakar Rally
  • Dakar Rally of 2021 victory of stage 1. First Spanish woman to win a stage and second in the history of the Dakar Rally.

 

  • Extreme E: Desert X Prix. Best time in the qualifying phase, 3rd position in the race and 2nd in the general classification (30 points).
2021

WORLD CHAMPION OF T3 RALLY CROSS-COUNTRY

WORLD CHAMPION OF T3 RALLY CROSS-COUNTRY

World Rally Champion in the T3 category and the first woman in history to become world champion in the FIA ​​Cross-Country discipline.

 

Ranking in the World Rally Championship T3 Cross-Country events:

 

  • 2nd Place: Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge – Category T3 (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
  • 1st Place: Rally Kazakhstan – Category T3 (Kazakhstan)
  • 1st Place: Andalusia Rally – Category T3 (Andalusia, Spain)
2021

WORLD RUNNER-UP IN EXTREME E

WORLD RUNNER-UP IN EXTREME E

2021 Extreme E Test Rankings:

 

  • 1st Place: Jurassic Prix (Dorset, UK)
  • 5th Place: Island Prix (Sardinia, Italy)
  • 4th Place: Artix Prix (Kangerlussuaq, Greenland)
  • 5th Place: Ocean Prix (Dakar, Senegal)
  • 3rd Place: Desert X-Prix (Al Ula, Saudi Arabia)
2022
2022

EXTREME-E 2022: WORLD CHAMPION

EXTREME-E 2022: WORLD CHAMPION
  • Dakar Rally 2022: 3rd general classification (2nd scratch in stages 6, 7, 9 and 10) and winner of the FIA Women’s Trophy in category T3.
  • Extreme-E: Desert X Prix. Winners of the qualifying phase (Qualifying) and 3rd place in the final of the prix (15 points).
  • Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge 2022: 4th FIA W2RC general classification, 2nd in T3 category and winner of the fifth stage in T3.
  • Extreme-E: Island X Prix I. 3rd place in the qualifying phase and 6th place in the prix final (8 points).
  • Extreme-E: Island X Prize II. 2nd position in the qualifying phase and 2nd position in the prize final (18 points).
  • Baja Aragón/Spain 2022: 10th position in the FIA general classification and 3rd in the T3 FIA category. Baja cross country world cup.
  • Extreme-E: Copper X Prix. 2nd position in the qualifying phase and 1st position in the prize final.
  • Rallye du Maroc 2022: 10th FIA W2RC general classification, 3rd T3 category and winner of the fourth stage in T3.
  • Rally de Andalucía 2022: FIA classification 13th, category T3 classification 5th.
  • FIA World Rally-Raid Championship 2022: General classification 8th (38 points), category T3 classification 3rd (167 points).​
  • Extreme-E: Energy X Award. 3rd position of the award.
  • Extreme-E 2022: Champion of the 2022 Extreme-E season.
2023
2023

DAKAR RALLY 2023: 4TH OVERALL CLASSIFICATED T3

DAKAR RALLY 2023: 4TH OVERALL CLASSIFICATED T3
  • Dakar Rally 2023: 4th general classification T3, winner of the prologue stage and stage 14. 5th FIA classification of the World Rally Raid Championship 2023 (52 points)
  • Extreme-E 2023: Desert X Prix I. 4th position of the prix
  • Extreme-E 2023: Desert X Prix II. 6th position of the prix
  • Extreme-E 2023: Hydro X Prix I. 1st position of the prix
  • Extreme-E 2023: Hydro X Prix II. 9th position of the prize

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