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.1998-1999: Official co-driver in Carlos Sainz Junior Team in Spanish Gravel and Tarmac Championships with Oscar Fuertes.2000: Gravel crew for Luis Climent in the Skoda factory team tackling the FIA World Rally Championship. Co-driver in the Spanish Gravel Championship with Toni Forner in a Group N Seat Ibiza. Co-driver in the Baja Spain and Egypt Rally with José-Luis Monterde.2001: Overall victory in the Rally Ciudad de Murcia in a Ford Focus WRC. 1st Rookie and 1st Amateur with José-Luis Monterde in Dakar Rally. Co-driver in the Carlos Sainz Junior Team with Txus Jaio.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: Winner of the Spanish Gravel Championship with Txus Jaio Co-driver in Spanish Tarmac Championship with Luis Climent. Co-driver for Luis Climent in the Baja Spain with a Mitsubishi Pajero*.2004: Co-driver in Spanish Tarmac Championship with Salvador Canellas. Co-driver for Txus Jaio in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII in the Spanish Gravel Championship. Co-driver for Luis Climent in the Baja Spain and Rally of Tunisia in a Toyota.2005: Winning co-driver in the Spanish Tout Terrain Championship with Carlos Sole. Also worked as co-ordinator Co-driver for Mitsubishi-RACC in the Spanish Tarmac Championship with Samuel Lemes in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VII MR. Co-driver in the Spanish Gravel Championship with Albert Llobera. Co-driver for Xavier Pons in the WRC Rally of Mexico.2006: Co-driver t in the Lisbon-Dakar Rally with Josep Pujol. Co-driver in the Spanish TT series and FIA Baja Cup with Marc Blasquez. 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.Lucas S. Cruz was born in Barcelona in December 1974 and now resides at Ripollet in Catalunya. 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 Rally with Monterde and the Baja Spain with Santiago Lopez. Lucas became an official co-driver for Honda Spain with Luis Climent and also tackled the Baja Spain again with Climent in a Mitsubishi Pajero*. In 2004, he tackled the Spanish tarmac series with Salvador Canellas in a factory Honda Type-R and his home gravel series with Txus Jaio in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Lucas also partnered Climent in the Baja Spain and Rally of Tunisia. The following season he and Carlos Solé won the Spanish TT series in a BMW X5 and Lucas worked as a co-ordinator for the BMW Motor Cadi Team, in addition to tackling the Spanish tarmac series with the Mitsubishi-RACC team, the gravel series with Fiat and the Rally of Mexico with Xavier Pons. In 2006, Lucas tackled the Dakar Rally as a co-driver for a T4 support truck with the Volkswagen team and signed with the Nissan team to partner the experienced Marc Blasquez 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.
