Cristina Gutiérrez

Early career

Gutiérrez debuted in rally raid in 2010 at age eighteen. She was overall runner-up at the 2015 Spanish Off-Road Rally Championship.

Dakar Rally

Gutiérrez debuted her international rally career in the 2017 Dakar Rally, racing in a modified Mitsubishi Pajero.^[6] Gutiérrez's first race was a success. She finished 44th overall and sixth in the T1.S class, in a race where 27% of class entrants did not manage to complete the course.^[6] This made her the first woman from Spain to ever finish the off-road classic.^[7] In 2018, she finished second in the T1.S class, again driving a Mitsubishi Montero. The Spaniard finished seventh in the T1.2 class in 2019 and 2020, both driving a Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross.

In the 2021 Dakar Rally, Gutiérrez competed in the T3.1 lightweight vehicles category on an OT3-01. She became only the second woman ever (after Jutta Kleinschmidt in 2005) to win a Dakar stage, however she retired in stage 8.^[8]

In the 2022 Dakar Rally, Gutiérrez was the first Spanish woman to reach the podium of the Dakar Rally, when she and co-driver François Cazalet finished third in the Light Prototype (T3) category driving a Red Bull OT3 prototype.^{[9][10][11][12][13]}

In the 2023 Dakar Rally, Gutiérrez finished in fourth position in the T3 category, after having many issues in the first week that prevented her from fighting for the victory. Nonetheless, she won the prologue stage and the last stage, being the only woman ever do it so after Jutta Kleinschmidt.^[14][15][16]

In the 2024 Dakar Rally, Gutiérrez claimed the win in the Challenger category (formerly known as T3), as she profited from a late issue for leader Mitch Guthrie. She became the second woman in history to achieve this feat, following Jutta Kleinschmidt's victory in 2001.^{[17][18][19][20]} She is also the first Spanish woman to ever win at the Dakar Rally.^[21]

Extreme E

In December 2020, Gutiérrez was announced as the female driver for Lewis Hamilton's Team X44 in Extreme E, partnering with Sébastien Loeb.^[10] They finished the season in 2nd behind Rosberg X Racing's Johan Kristoffersson and Molly Taylor. The teams were level on points but RXR were ahead on virtue of their 3 wins to X44's one win.

Loeb and Gutiérrez were re-signed to Team X44 for 2022, for Extreme-E's second season.^[22] Team X44, with Gutiérrez and Loeb, ended up winning the second season of Extreme-E championship in the last race.^[23]

Gutiérrez moved to McLaren XE for 2024 and will partner Mattias Ekström.^[24] On September 6, a week before the scheduled Island X-Prix, Extreme E announced that the rounds in Sardinia and Phoenix were cancelled as it said it was “reviewing alternative solutions” to finish the season.^[25][26]

Other series

Gutiérrez has also been her country's Women's Off-Road Champion since 2012, and outright vice-champion in the same discipline in 2015 following a series of second places in Spanish Bajas.^[7] She won six consecutive times in the Women's Class of the Spanish TT Rally Championship.^[27]

In 2021, Gutiérrez became the first female driver to win an FIA World Cup for the Cross-Country Rallies title. She completed the last stage with a broken back.^[28]

Dakar Rally

More information Year, Class ...

Year	Class	Vehicle	Position	Stages won
2017	Cars	Mitsubishi	44th	0
2018			38th	0
2019			26th	0
2020			42nd	0
2021	T3	OT3	DNF	3
2022			3rd	0
2023		Can-Am	4th	2
2024		Taurus	1st	1
2025	Cars	Dacia	40th	0
2026			11th	0

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