Juan Manuel González Corominas (born May 24th, 1968 in Navàs

Navàs

Navàs is a village in the province of Barcelona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain....

, Barcelona), also known as Pedregá, is a Spanish

Spain

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 off road

Off Road

Off Road may refer to:*Super Off Road, 1989 arcade game released by Leland Corporation*Off Road Challenge, 1998 console game released by Nintendo*Ford Racing: Off Road, 2008 video game published by Empire Interactive...

 motorbike and ATV

All-terrain vehicle

An all-terrain vehicle , also known as a quad, quad bike, three wheeler, or four wheeler, is defined by the American National Standards Institute as a vehicle that travels on low pressure tires, with a seat that is straddled by the operator, along with handlebars for steering control...

 driver.

He started racing on enduro

Enduro

Enduro is a form of motorcycle sport run on courses that are predominantly off-road. Enduro consists of many different obstacles and challenges...

 categories in 1988. In 2001, he started to race on off road quad races.

He has competed in the Dakar Rally

Dakar Rally

The Dakar Rally is an annual rally raid type of off-road automobile race, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation...

, driving a quad, since 2005

2005 Dakar Rally

2005 Dakar Rally also known as the 2005 Paris-Dakar Rally was the 27th running of the Dakar Rally event. The 2005 event was 5,565 miles long, began in Barcelona on 31 December 2004 and passed through Morocco, Mauritania and Mali before ending at Dakar in Senegal on 16 January 2005. The course was...

, being able to lead the general classification and win several stages. He won the 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...

in quads category.

Honors

• 1996 Enduro Spanish Championship
• 2001 Quads Spanish Championship
• 2002 Baja Aragón
• 2006 Dakar Rally

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