Lucas Cruz Senra is a Spanish computer engineer, mostly known as a rally racing co-driver and experienced navigator. He started to race on 1994, when he race on the Catalonia Rally Championship

Rally Catalunya

The Rally Catalunya is a rally competition on the World Rally Championship schedule. Now held on the wide, smooth and sweeping asphalt roads around the town of Salou, Catalonia, Spain, it was previously held around the region of Costa Brava...

. On 2001, he achieved his first victory in the Spanish Championship, together with the driver Txus Jaio on board a Ford Focus WRC

Ford Focus WRC

The Ford Focus RS WRC is a car built for the Ford World Rally Team by Ford and M-Sport and based on the Ford Focus Climate 2-litre production hatchback, developed to compete in the World Rally Championship. The RS stands for Rallye Sport and the WRC for World Rally Car, the car's FIA specification...

, as part of the Carlos Sainz Junior Team. After a few years racing on tarmac

Tarmac

Tarmac is a type of road surface. Tarmac refers to a material patented by Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1901...

 and gravel

Gravel

Gravel is composed of unconsolidated rock fragments that have a general particle size range and include size classes from granule- to boulder-sized fragments. Gravel can be sub-categorized into granule and cobble...

 categories, he started to compete on off-road races with the driver José Luis Monterde, finishing the 2001 Dakar Rally

2001 Dakar Rally

2001 Dakar Rally also known as the 2001 Paris-Dakar Rally was the 23rd running of the Dakar Rally event. The format was revised to reduce the amount of airborne assistance to competitors in favour of assistance vehicles...

 as the first classified rookies and amateurs, driving a Nissan Patrol GR

Nissan Patrol

The Nissan Patrol is a four-wheel drive vehicle manufactured by Nissan in Japan since 1951. In Japan since 1980, it has been known as the Nissan Safari. The Patrol is available in Australasia, Central and South America, South Africa, parts of Southeast Asia and Western Europe as well as Iran and...

.

He tackled 2006 Dakar Rally

2006 Dakar Rally

2006 Dakar Rally also known as the 2006 Paris-Dakar Rally was the 28th running of the Dakar Rally event. The 2006 event ran from 31 December 2005 to 15 January 2006. It started from Lisbon, Portugal, and passed through Spain, Morocco, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea, before finishing in Senegal...

 as a truck codriver for the Volkswagen Motorsport Team

Volkswagen

Volkswagen is a German automobile manufacturer and is the original and biggest-selling marque of the Volkswagen Group, which now also owns the Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, SEAT, and Škoda marques and the truck manufacturer Scania.Volkswagen means "people's car" in German, where it is...

, partnering with driver Josep Pujol.

On 2007 he signed for Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi Motors

is a multinational automaker headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. In 2009 it was the fifth-largest Japan-based automaker and the 17th-largest in the world measured by production...

, where he stayed for two years, along with Nani Roma

Nani Roma

Nani Roma, full name Joan Roma Cararach, is a rally racing driver from Folgueroles, a small village in Barcelona, Spain. He won the Dakar Rally riding a motorcycle in 2004. Since then he has entered driving a car.-Honours:...

 as new team mate. They attended to 2007

2007 Dakar Rally

The 2007 Dakar Rally was the 29th running of the event. It started in Lisbon, Portugal on 6 January and ran through Europe and Africa until 21 January 2007.-Entrants:...

 and 2009 Dakar Rally

2009 Dakar Rally

The 2009 Dakar Rally was the 30th running of the Dakar Rally. In addition to motorcycle, automobile, and truck categories, a separate quad class was added for the first time. The race began on January 3, 2009, and took place across Argentina and Chile...

, achieving 10th place as the best result on final classification. They also finished 2nd on Rally Transibérico and Baja Spain competitions on 2007, and 2nd again on the 2008 Baja Spain.

On May 2009, Cruz returned to Volkswagen Team, this time to share the cockpit with former World Champion Carlos Sainz

Carlos Sainz

Carlos Sainz Cenamor is a Spanish rally driver. He won the World Rally Championship drivers' title with Toyota in 1990 and 1992, and finished runner-up four times...

. The pairing achieved their first successes after winning the Rally dos Sertões and the Silk Way Rally. The team formed by Sainz-Cruz completed their most important achievement after winning the 2010 Dakar Rally

2010 Dakar Rally

The 2010 Dakar Rally was the 31st running of the event. It was held in South America for the second successive time, and ran from 1 to 16 January...

, ahead of another two Volkswagen cars, driven by Nasser Al-Attiyah

Nasser Al-Attiyah

Nasser Salih Nasser Abdullah Al-Attiyah is a Qatari rally driver and sport shooter. He participates in the Production World Rally Championship , which he won in 2006, and the Dakar Rally, which he won in 2011...

 and Mark Miller

Mark Miller (motorcycle racer)

Mark Miller is a professional off road racer, competing in both cars and on motorcycles. He lives both in Arizona and Colorado, and is married to Danielle Miller. Together they have two sons, Nick and Sam...

, respectively.

Dakar Rally results

2007	2008	2009	2010
13th	DNS	10th	1st

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