Mathieu Baumel | |
Nationality: | French |
Birth Date: | 17 January 1976 |
Birth Place: | Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France |
Current Series: | World Rally-Raid Championship |
Current Team: | Overdrive Racing |
Former Teams: | X-raid, Toyota Gazoo Racing, Prodrive |
Titles: | Dakar Rally FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies World Rally-Raid Championship |
Title Years: | 2015, 2019 2021, 2022, 2023 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021 2022, 2023 |
Mathieu Baumel (born 17 January 1976) is a French rally raid co-driver competing in the World Rally-Raid Championship. Alongside Nasser Al-Attiyah, he won the Dakar Rally five times, the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies four times, and the World Rally-Raid Championship twice.[1]
Baumel parted ways with Al-Attiyah after the 2024 Dakar Rally. He reunited with Guerlain Chicherit, with whom he ran the 2005 and 2006 Dakar Rallies, for the BP Ultimate Rally-Raid Portugal later that year followed by working with Guillaume de Mévius.[2] [3]