Rally Dakar 2005

Repsol Drivers. Andrea Mayer
Career Highlights: 1994-2002: Racing in motorbike category1994: 1st in Ladies’ Cup, Atlas Rally1995: 1st in Ladies’ Cup, Atlas Rally1996: 1st in Ladies’ Cup, Atlas Rally; Dakar Rally and Rally of Tunisia1997: 1st in Ladies’ Cup, Rally of Tunisia and UAE Desert Challenge1998: 1st in Ladies’ Cup, UAE Desert Challenge1999: 1st in Ladies’ Cup, Dakar Rally, (32nd overall); Rally of Tunisia (21st overall) and Rally of Egypt (7th overall)2000: Factory driver for BMW Motorcycle2001: 1st in Ladies’ Cup, Dakar Rally, (30th overall); Rally of Tunisia (19th overall) and UAE Desert Challenge (6th overall)2002: 1st in Ladies Cup, 23rd overall, Dakar Rally on a KTM motorcycle2nd overall Baja Germany; 17th overall, 5th T2 diesel, Rally of Morocco; 10th overall, 2nd T2 diesel, Rally of Tunisia; 16th overall, 2nd T2 diesel, Baja Italy, all in a Mitsubishi Pajero Di-D2003: 21st overall, 4th T2 diesel, Dakar Rally; 5th overall, Rally of Tunisia; 16th overall, Rally of Morocco all in a Mitsubishi Pajero Di-D; 2nd overall, Baja Germany in a Mitsubishi Pajero.5th overall, UAE Desert Challenge in a Mitsubishi Pajero  Di-D2004: 5th overall, Dakar Rally in a Mitsubishi Pajero10th overall, Rally of Morocco in a Mitsubishi L200 Pick-Up  Andrea Mayer was born in Kaufbeuren in 1968 and began a racing career on motorcycles in 1989 at the age of 21. Over the next few years she took part in numerous motorcycle events, before winning the Ladies Cup at the Moroccan Atlas Rally in 1994, a feat she repeated in 1995 and 1996. Through the mid-1990s she became one of the leading motorcycle riders in world enduro racing and graduated to the full BMW factory team in 2000. At the start of the 2003 season she made the switch to rallying on four-wheels and took part in the Dakar Rally at the wheel of a Ralliart customer Pajero/Montero. Over the course of the 2003 season she finished fifth overall in Tunisia, runner-up in the Baja Germany and fifth in the UAE Desert Challenge, before joining the full MMSP factory team to take fifth place in the 2004 Dakar Rally. During the 2004 season she rallied for the MMSP team in Morocco and Dubai and carried out test and development work with a Ralliart customer Pajero/Montero in the Middle East in October. She will run as a support driver to the Mitsubishi Motors team in the 2005 Dakar Rally at the wheel of a Mitsubishi L200 Pick-Up.