Ignacio Casale

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Casale and the second or maternal family name is Catraccia.
Ignacio Casale

Chilean rider Ignacio Casale
Born (1987-04-27) April 27, 1987
Santiago, Chile
Dakar Rally career
Debut season 2010
Current team Yamaha
Car no. 251
Wins 1st, 4th stages 2014 Dakar Rally
Best finish Second, in 2013 Dakar Rally

Ignacio Nicolás Casale Catraccia (born April 27, 1987 in Santiago, Chile) is a four-wheeler motorcycle rider who won second place in the 2013 Dakar Rally. Casale also took part in the 2010 Dakar Rally with his father, competing in the Trucks category. They finished in 26th place, earning Casale wild card place in the 2011 Dakar Rally, where he finished 40th in the motorcycle category. The following year he competed in the four-wheeler category and finished in fourth place, the highest ranked Chilean rider.[1] In the 2013 Dakar Rally he won the seventh stage, becoming the first Chilean to win a stage in the Four-Wheeler category. He went to come second overall, behind Marcos Patronelli, the best result achieved by any Chilean in the history of the Dakar Rally.[2]

Ignacio Casale at the 2013 Dakar Rally awards ceremony

2014 Dakar Rally

Ignacio Casale 2014 Dakar Rally

In 2014, after 14 days and 5,000 miles of riding through the Argentinean and Chilean Andes, Bolivian salt plains and the Atacama desert, Casale won his first Dakar victory.[3]

Casale performed well throughout the 2014 Dakar Rally,[4] finishing first in seven of the 13 stages (stages 1, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 13) and holding the overall number one spot from stage 7 through to the end.

Casale will later meet Chilean president Sebastián Piñera at La Moneda Palace in Santiago. He has told the media that he intends to defend his Quad title at the 2015 Dakar Rally.[5]

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Marcos Patronelli		 Dakar Rally
Quad Winner
2014 		Succeeded by
Rafał Sonik

References

  1. ↑ Ignacio Casale cumplió la mejor actuación chilena en el Dakar 2012 cooperativa.cl January 15, 2012 retrieved January 20, 2013
  2. ↑ {es}Ignacio Casale se alzó con un histórico segundo lugar en Quads La Nación, January 19, 2013, retrieved January 19, 2013
  3. ↑ Ignacio Casale claims Chile’s first Dakar triumph santiagotimes.cl/ By Joseph Hinchliffe, published Sat, Jan 18th, 2014, retrieved on February 5th, 2014
  4. ↑ Ignacio Casale: “I made a spotless route” {es} 24Horas.cl with information of IND, January 08, 2014, retrieved January 09, 2014
  5. ↑ Minuto a Minuto del Rally Dakar 2014: Ignacio Casale es el primer campeón chileno del Dakar emol.com January 14, 2014, retrieved February 05, 2014
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