Date of birth: 12/15/1974 Place of birth: Barcelona – Catalunya – Spain Resident in: Ripollet – Catalunya – Spain Nationality: Spanish
Sporting career
1994
Tackled the Catalunya Championship with Miguel Fernandez.
1997
Co-driver in the Catalunya Championship with Joan Franquet.
1998
Co-driver in the Catalunya Championship with Miguel Fernandez.
1999
Official co-driver in Carlos Sainz Junior Team in Spanish Gravel and Tarmac Championships with Oscar Fuertes.
2000
Co-driver in the Spanish Gravel Championship with Toni Forner in a Group N Seat Ibiza. Gravel crew for Luis Climent in the Skoda factory team tackling the FIA World Rally Championship.
2001
1st Rookie and 1st Amateur with José-Luis Monterde in Dakar Rally. Co-driver in the Carlos Sainz Junior Team with Txus Jaio. Overall victory in the Rally Ciudad de Murcia in a Ford Focus WRC.
2002
Winner of the Spanish Gravel Championship with Txus Jaio in a Ford Focus. Co-driver for José-Luis Monterde in the Dakar Rally. Co-driver in the Baja Spain with Santiago Lopez.
2003
Co-driver for Luis Climent in the Baja Spain with a Mitsubishi Pajero*. Co-driver in Spanish Tarmac Championship with Luis Climent. Winner of the Spanish Gravel Championship with Txus Jaio
2004
Co-driver for Luis Climent in the Baja Spain and Rally of Tunisia in a Toyota. Co-driver for Txus Jaio in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII in the Spanish Gravel Championship. Co-driver in Spanish Tarmac Championship with Salvador Canellas.
2005
Winning co-driver in the Spanish Tout Terrain Championship with Carlos Sole. Co-driver for Mitsubishi-RACC in the Spanish Tarmac Championship with Samuel Lemes in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII MR. Co-driver for Xavier Pons in the WRC Rally of Mexico. Co-driver in the Spanish Gravel Championship with Albert Llobera
2006
1stco-driver in the Spanish Gravel Championship with Albert Llobera. Attended the Morocco test for MMSP in September and joined the Team Repsol Mitsubishi Ralliart team to partner Nani Roma in the 2007 Dakar Rally. Co-driver in the FIA Baja Cup with Marc Blasquez. Co-driver in the Spanish TT series and FIA Baja Cup with Marc Blasquez. Co-driver t in the Lisbon-Dakar Rally with Josep Pujol.
Lucas S. Cruz was born in Barcelona, Spain, in December 1974 and now lives in Ripollet, Catalonia. Multi-lingual, Lucas is a professional computer engineer, who first entered the world of rallying in 1994 when he tackled the tarmac Catalunya Championship with Miguel A. Fernandez in a Peugeot 205 Rally for two seasons.
He had to wait a further seven years to record his first victory in the Spanish Rally Championship, when he and Txus Jaio won the Rally Ciudad de Murcia in a Ford Focus WRC running as part of the Carlos Sainz Junior Team.
His first international success came the same year, when he and former Ralliart driver José-Luis Monterde won the Rookie category and were classified as the first Amateur crew in the 2001 Dakar Rally in a Nissan Patrol GR. By this time Lucas had gained experience assisting Luis Climent in the Skoda factory team tackling the FIA World Rally Championship.
Lucas and Txus clinched the Spanish Gravel Championship in 2002 and 2003 in a Ford Focus WRC and he also tackled the Dakar with Monterde and the Baja Espana with Santiago Lopez. Lucas became an official co-driver for Honda Spain alongside Luis Climent and also tackled the Baja Espana again, this time with Climent in a Mitsubishi Pajero*.
In 2004, he tackled the Spanish tarmac series with Salvador Canellas in a factory Honda Type-R, as well as his home gravel series with Txus Jaio in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Lucas also partnered Climent on the Baja Espana and Rallye de Tunisie.
The following season he and Carlos Sole won the Spanish TT series in a BMW X5 and Lucas worked as a co-ordinator for the BMW Motor Cadiz Team, in addition to contesting the Spanish tarmac series with the Mitsubishi-RACC team, the gravel series with Fiat and the Rally Mexico with Xavier Pons.
In 2006, Lucas competed in the Dakar Rally as a co-driver in a T4 support truck with the Volkswagen team and signed with the Nissan team to partner the experienced Marc Basques in the Spanish TT Championship and the FIA International Cup for Bajas. The pair won the Italian Baja, the opening round of the FIA series. He then attended the second MMSP test session in Morocco and signed a contract with Mitsubishi to partner Nani Roma in the 2007 Dakar Rally and finished 13th overall before taking second overall on June’s Transiberico Rally and on July’s Baja Espana.
Throughout the 2008 season Lucas has been alongside Nani Roma, showing some great form in all his participations. Two different breakdowns left the pair out of the battle to win the Central Europe Rally, when they were third, and the PAX Rally, when they were in control of the race with only one stage left. His best result of the season was the second position in the Baja España Aragón, and in the last few months he has been concentrating on preparing for the Dakar 2009, developing the Repsol Mitsubishi Ralliart Team`s new turbo-diesel engine for the Racing Lancer.
