1983: World Junior Champion in the Downhill at Sestrieres 1994: 7th overall at the Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Downhill and Super-G First career win at Val d’Isère1995: Ranked number one in the world in Men’s Downhill.1996: Bronze medallist at the World Championships Ranked number one in the world in Men’s Downhill1994/1997: Member of the French alpine skiing team1997: Winner of the Alpine skiing World Cup Number 1 in the World ranking List, Downhill and Super-G1998: Winner of the Pro US tour, Downhill competition First participation in the Dakar Rally1999: Winner of the Pro US tour, Downhill competition Winner of the T1 category in the Dakar Rally2002: 7th overall in the Dakar Rally Winner of the T1 Diesel category with a Mitsubishi Pajero* Competes in the 24 Hours of Le Mans2003: 9th overall in the Dakar Rally. Winner of the category Proto Diesel 1st overall in the Baja Spain and Baja Germany Competes in the 24 Hours of Le Mans2004: 4th overall in the Dakar Rally. Winner of two stages with BMW 2nd overall in the Penino Rally Joins the Mitsubishi factory team for the 2005 Dakar Rally 16th overall in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a Porsche GT3RS2005: 2nd overall in Dakar Rally 1st overall in Rally of Tunisia 1st overall in Baja Anta Da Serra 500-Portalegre2006: 1st overall in Dakar Rally 1st overall in Patagonia-Atacama Rally 3rd overall in Transiberico Rally Luc ‘Lucho’ Alphand was born in Briançon, France, in August 1965 and currently lives at Serre-Chevalier. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s he became one of the most famous World Downhill skiers of all time, taking 12 World Cup victories and being crowned Champion of France on nine occasions. Twice a winner of the Pro US Tour and a world ranked number one skier, ‘Lucho’ switched to four-wheel cross-country rallying in 1998, when he took part in the Dakar Rally for the first time. The following season he won the T1 category and went on to finish seventh overall and first in the T1 diesel section in 2002, in addition to taking part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In 2003, he finished ninth overall in the Dakar Rally and won the Proto Diesel category, before taking outright victories in a BMW X5 in both the German and Spanish Bajas. In January 2004 he entered the history books by taking the first outright fastest time for a diesel car in the Dakar Rally and finished fourth overall with co-driver Henri Magne. Alphand joined the Mitsubishi team in the summer of 2004 to test and develop the Mitsubishi Pajero* Evolution and represented the team for the first time in the 2005 Dakar, taking second place. Three months later he claimed his first ever FIA World Cup long-distance victory with Mitsubishi in Tunisia and went on to win the Baja Portalègre in Portugal in October 2005. He fulfilled his dream of taking victory on the Dakar, when he steered his revised MPR12 version of the Pajero* Evolution to Mitsubishi’s sixth successive win in January 2006. Just over two months later he won the Patagonia-Atacama Rally in South America, rolled out of contention in the Rally of Tunisia in April – suffering a minor hand injury in the process – and then finished third overall in the Transiberico Rally in May. After taking part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans again, he continued Mitsubishi’s test and development program with the new MPR13 version of the Pajero* Evolution over the summer months.
