X raid

Administration building at the headquarters of X-raid in Trebur-Astheim

Aerial photos of the office building and both workshop halls of X-raid at the headquarters in Trebur-Astheim

X-raid is a private German rally team based in Trebur . It has competed in marathon rallies since 2002 , including the Dakar Rally .

team

X-raid was founded in 2002 by Sven Quandt as a private team. It starts in the FIA Marathon World Cup with factory support from BMW and Magna . The team receives the diesel engines directly from the BMW development center in Steyr. The tubular frame, body and chassis are supplied by Magna.

In 2003 it fielded a competitive diesel vehicle in the Dakar Rally for the first time with the BMW X5 CC.

vehicles

X-raid workshop in Trebur-Astheim

Off-road vehicles of the prototype class, which do not have to be technically related to a series vehicle, are used as competition vehicles . In the beginning the team used the BMW X5 and later the BMW X3 . At the 2011 Dakar Rally , X-raid competed for the first time with a MINI All4 Racing based on the Mini Countryman . In the 2013 Dakar Rally the team with six MINI All4 Racing and a BMW X3 CC approached. Each is driven by three-liter turbo - diesel engines , which are prepared at the BMW plant. The RS 08 engine used had an output of 232 kW (315 hp) and a maximum torque of 700 Nm in the 2011/12 season.

On June 24, 2014, an X-Raid vehicle was severely damaged during transport in a traffic accident on the B486 west of Langen .

The X-raid team has been using the newly developed MINI John Cooper Works Rally since 2017 and the MINI John Cooper Works Buggy since 2018.

driver

The following driver pairings drove for X-Raid at the 2019 Dakar Rally:

• Carlos Sainz / Lucas Cruz - MINI John Cooper Works Buggy
• Stéphane Peterhansel / David Castera - MINI John Cooper Works Buggy
• Cyril Despres / Jean-Paul Cottret - MINI John Cooper Works Buggy
• Nani Roma / Alex Haro - MINI John Cooper Works Rally
• Jakub Przygonski / Tom Colsoul - MINI John Cooper Works Rally
• Orlando Terranova / Ronnie Graue - MINI John Cooper Works Rally
• Yazeed Al-Rajhi / Timo Gottschalk - MINI John Cooper Works Rally
• Boris Garafulic / Filipe Palmeiro - MINI John Cooper Works Rally

Many well-known drivers have competed for the racing team in the past, such as Stéphane Peterhansel , Nasser Al-Attiyah , Jutta Kleinschmidt , Colin McRae , Nani Roma , Mikko Hirvonen , Krzysztof Holowczyc, Guerlain Chicherit , Luc Alphand , Bruno Saby and Grégoire de Mévius.

successes

Luc Alphand's first successes were eighth place in the 2003 Dakar Rally and fourth place a year later. This was followed by victory in the 2004 Marathon World Rally Championship for Khalifa Al-Mutaiwei and victory in the Portuguese Offroad Championship in 2005 for Miguel Barbosa .

The change from the BMW X5 to the more competitive BMW X3 in 2006 saw the first major successes. Guerlain Chicherit won the 14th stage of the 2006 Dakar Rally and thus became the X-Raid team's first Dakar stage winner. A year later, Nasser Al-Attiyah was also able to achieve a stage win on the 10th stage of the 2007 Dakar Rally . He finished the rally in 6th place overall.

In 2008, Al-Attiyah won the Saudi Arabia Hail Baja , the UAE Desert Challenge , the Hungarian Baja and the Baja Spain . He also became world marathon rally champion. At the Central Europe Rally , the replacement event for the Dakar Rally, Bruno Saby came in sixth as the best driver of the team.

The team entered the 2009 Dakar Rally with its further developed vehicles with high expectations . Nasser Al-Attiyah initially fought hard fights with Carlos Sainz and was twice the fastest of the day. However, he was disqualified while in the lead after the 6th stage because he had driven a different route than the specified to protect his damaged vehicle and thus missed too many checkpoints. The other drivers lost a lot of time due to accidents or time penalties and thus did not achieve a top position. Only Chicherit and Novitskiy made it into the top ten places.

After victories in the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge and the Rally Transiberico (Portugal, Spain), as well as a third place in the Rally OiLibya (Tunisia, Libya), Guerlain Chicherit and co-driver Tina Thörner secured the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies 2009 ( after 2004 and 2008 the third title in this class for the team). Other successes were the victory of Orlando Terranova with co-driver Filipe Palmeiro at the Rally OiLibya in May 2009.

At the 2010 Dakar Rally , Stéphane Peterhansel, lying in a promising position, only achieved fourth place because of a broken cardan shaft on the fifth stage. A year later, he was able to repeat this result at the 2011 Dakar Rally . In the same year he won the first Mini All4 Racing victory at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge .

In 2010 and 2011, the duo Leonid Novitskiy and Andreas Schulz secured the title in the FIA ​​World Cup for Cross Country Rallies.

In 2012 Khalifa Al-Mutaiwei won the FIA ​​World Cup for Cross Country Rallies with Andreas Schulz .

The team celebrated its first victory at the 2012 Dakar Rally . Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret won and Nani Roma with co-driver Michel Perin gave the team a double success by securing second place. Overall, all five Mini All4 Racing drivers achieved a place in the top 10.

In 2013 , Stéphane Peterhansel was able to repeat his success and again secured first place in the Dakar Rally. With Stéphane Peterhansel, Leonid Novitskiy, Nani Roma and Orlando Terranova, four X-Raid drivers finished in the top ten again. Despite his rib and spine injuries, which he sustained from an accident during the Dakar Rally, Krzysztof Hołowczyc drove his car to a second place in the 20th Italian Baja.

Krzysztof Hołowczyc and his co-driver Andreas Schulz were able to defend the title in the FIA ​​World Cup for Cross Country Rallies for the team.

The 2014 Dakar Rally was the most successful so far for the team from Trebur. X-raid entered with eleven Mini ALL4 Racing and a team of 150 people and thus secured the record for the largest team in the history of the Dakar Rally. Of the eleven Minis all reached the finish in Valpariso, nine of them made it into the top 12 of the vehicle classification. Nani Roma and Michel Périn secured victory, ahead of Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret. The pure Mini ALL4 Racing podium was completed by Nasser Al-Attiyah with his Spanish co-driver Lucas Cruz. The team also placed 5th in Orlando Terranova / Paulo Fiuza, 6th place in Krzysztof Holowczyc / Konstantin Zhiltsov, 9th place Martin Kaczmarski / Filipe Palmeiro, 10th place Vladimir Vasilyev / Vitaliy Yevtyekhov, 11th place Boris Garafulic / Gilles Picard, 12th place Federico Villagra / Jorge Perez Companc, 19th place Stephan Schott / Holm Schmidt and 31st place Yong Zhou / Hong Yu Pan.

The Mini ALL4 Racing started the 2015 Dakar with the motto Make it ALL4 . In fact, the outdated Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah from Qatar Rally Team their fourth win in a row for a built in Trebur vehicle. With Krzysztof Holowczycauf from Poland in third place, another Mini ALL4 Racing placed on the podium. The Mini was convincing again all along the line: it took eleven of 13 possible daily victories and took four of the first five places in the overall standings.

Cross Country Championship Portugal winner

year	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
2008	Filipe Campos / Jaime Baptista	Portugal / Portugal	BMW X3 CC
2009	Filipe Campos / Jaime Baptista	Portugal / Portugal	BMW X3 CC
2010	Filipe Campos / Jaime Baptista	Portugal / Portugal	BMW X5 CC
2014	Ricardo Porém / Manuel Porém	Portugal / Portugal	MNI ALL4 Racing

Silk Way rally winner

year	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
2011	Krzystof Holowczyc / Jean-Marc Fortin	Poland / Belgium	BMW X3 CC
2018	Yazeed Al-Rajhi / Timo Gottschalk	Saudi Arabia / Germany	MINI John Cooper Works Rally

Winner of the Baja FIA Cup for Cross Country Bajas

year	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
2008	Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah / Kristina "Tina" Thörner	Qatar / Sweden	BMW X3 CC

FIA Cross Country World Cup winner

year	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
2004	Khalifa al Mutaiwei / Alain Guehennec	United Arab Emirates / France	BMW X5 CC
2008	Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah / Kristina "Tina" Thörner	Qatar / Sweden	BMW X3 CC
2009	Guerlain Chicherit / Kristina "Tina" Thörner	France / Sweden	BMW X3 CC
2010	Leonid Novitsky / Andreas Schulz	Russia / Germany	BMW X3 CC
2011	Leonid Novitsky / Andreas Schulz	Russia / Germany	BMW X3 CC / Mini All4 Racing

Winner of the FIA ​​World Cup for Cross Country Rallies

year	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
2012	Khalifa al Mutaiwei / Andreas Schulz	United Arab Emirates / Germany	Mini All4 Racing
2013	Krzystof Holowczyc / Andreas Schulz	Poland / Germany	Mini All4 Racing
2014	Vladimir Vasilyev / Konstantin Zhiltsov	Russia / Russia	Mini All4 Racing
2018	Jakub Przygonski / Tom Colsoul	Poland / Belgium	MINI John Cooper Works Rally

Dakar Rally winner

year	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
2012	Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret	France / France	Mini All4 Racing
2013	Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret	France / France	Mini All4 Racing
2014	Nani Roma / Michel Périn	Spain / France	Mini All4 Racing
2015	Nasser Al-Attiyah / Mathieu Baumel	Qatar / France	Mini All4 Racing

Placements in the Dakar Rally

Paris-Dakar 2005 (Africa)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
9.	José Luis Monterde / Rafa Tornabell	Spain / Spain	BMW X5 CC

Paris-Dakar 2006 (Africa)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
9.	Guerlain Chicherit / Matthieu Baumel	France / France	BMW X3 CC
15th	Alfie Cox / Ralph Pitchford	South Africa / South Africa	BMW X3 CC
24.	José Luis Monterde / Tiziano Siviero	Spain / Italy	BMW X3 CC

Paris-Dakar 2007 (Africa)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
6th	Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah / Alain Guehennec	Qatar / France	BMW X3 CC
15th	Jutta Kleinschmidt / Kristina "Tina" Thörner	Germany / Sweden	BMW X3 CC
16.	José Luis Monterde / Jean-Marie Lurguin	Spain / France	BMW X5 CC
37.	Paulo Nobre / Filippe Palmeiro	Brazil / Portugal	BMW X5 CC

Dakar 2009 (Argentina, Chile)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
8th.	Leonid Novitskiy / Oleg Tyupenkin	Russia / Russia	BMW X3 CC
9.	Guerlain Chicherit / Matthieu Baumel	France / France	BMW X3 CC
18th	René Kuipers / Filipe Palmeiro	Netherlands / Portugal	BMW X3 CC

Dakar 2010 (Argentina, Chile)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
4th	Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret	France / France	BMW X3 CC
5.	Guerlain Chicherit / Kristina "Tina" Thörner	France / Sweden	BMW X3 CC
11.	Leonid Novitskiy / Andreas Schulz	Russia / Germany	BMW X3 CC

Dakar 2011 (Argentina, Chile)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
4th	Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret	France / France	BMW X3 CC
5.	Krzystof Holowczyc / Jean-Marc Fortin	Poland / Belgium	BMW X3 CC
7th	Ricardo Leal Dos Santos / Paulo Fiúza	Portugal / Portugal	BMW X3 CC
20th	Stephan Schott / Holm Schmidt	Germany / Germany	BMW X3 CC

Dakar 2012 (Argentina, Chile, Peru)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
1.	Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret	France / France	MINI All4 Racing
2.	Nani Roma / Michel Perin	Spain / France	MINI All4 Racing
4th	Leonid Novitskiy / Andreas Schulz	Russia / Germany	MINI All4 Racing
7th	Ricardo Leal Dos Santos / Paulo Fiúza	Portugal / Portugal	MINI All4 Racing
9.	Krzystof Holowczyc / Jean-Marc Fortin	Poland / Belgium	MINI All4 Racing
11.	Boris Garafulic / Gilles Picard	Chile / France	BMW X3 CC
15th	Alexander Mironenko / Sergy Lebedev	Russia / Russia	BMW X3 CC
30th	Stephan Schott / Holm Schmidt	Germany / Germany	BMW X3 CC

Dakar 2013 (Argentina, Chile, Peru)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
1.	Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret	France / France	MINI All4 Racing
3.	Leonid Novitskiy / Konstantin Zhiltsov	Russia / Russia	MINI All4 Racing
4th	Nani Roma / Michel Perin	Spain / France	MINI All4 Racing
5.	Orlando Terranova / Paulo Fiúza	Argentina / Portugal	BMW X3 CC
12.	Boris Garafulic / Gilles Picard	Chile / France	MINI All4 Racing
48.	Stephan Schott / Holm Schmidt	Germany / Germany	MINI All4 Racing

Dakar 2014 (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
1.	Nani Roma / Michel Périn	Spain / France	MINI All4 Racing
2.	Stéphane Peterhansel / Jean-Paul Cottret	France / France	MINI All4 Racing
3.	Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah / Lucas Cruz	Qatar / Spain	MINI All4 Racing
5.	Orlando Terranova / Paulo Fiúza	Argentina / Portugal	MINI All4 Racing
6th	Krzysztof Holowczyc / Konstantin Zhiltsov	Poland / Russia	MINI All4 Racing
9.	Martin Kaczmarski / Filipe Palmeiro	Poland / Portugal	MINI All4 Racing
10.	Vladimir Vasilyev / Vitaliy Yevtyekhov	Russia / Ukraine	MINI All4 Racing
11.	Boris Garafulic / Gilles Picard	Chile / France	MINI All4 Racing
12.	Federico Villagra / Jorge Perez Companc	Argentina / Argentina	MINI All4 Racing
19th	Stephan Schott / Holm Schmidt	Germany / Germany	MINI All4 Racing
31.	Yong Zhou / Hong Yu Pan	People's Republic of China / People's Republic of China	MINI All4 Racing

Dakar 2015 (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
1.	Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah / Mathieu Baumel	Qatar / France	MINI All4 Racing
3.	Krzysztof Holowczyc / Xavier Panseri	Poland / France	MINI All4 Racing
4th	Erik van Loon / Wouter Rosegaar	Netherlands / Netherlands	MINI All4 Racing
5.	Vladimir Vasilyev / Konstantin Zhiltsov	Russia / Russia	MINI All4 Racing
9.	Aidyn Rakhimbayev / Anton Nikolaev	Kazakhstan / Russia	MINI All4 Racing
12.	Boris Garafulic / Filipe Palmeiro	Chile / Portugal	MINI All4 Racing
13.	Yong Zhou / Andreas Schulz	People's Republic of China / Germany	MINI All4 Racing
18th	Orlando Terranova / Bernardo Graue	Argentina / Argentina	MINI All4 Racing
22nd	Stephan Schott / Holm Schmidt	Germany / Germany	MINI All4 Racing

Dakar 2016 (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
2.	Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah / Mathieu Baumel	Qatar / France	MINI All4 Racing
4th	Mikko Hirvonen / Michel Périn	Finland / France	MINI ALL4 Racing
6th	Nani Roma / Alex Haro	Spain / Spain	MINI All4 Racing
5.	Harry Hunt / Andreas Schulz	United Kingdom / Germany	MINI All4 Racing
12.	Orlando Terranova / Ronnie Graue	Argentina / Argentina	MINI All4 Racing
13.	Erik van Loon / Wouter Rosegaar	Netherlands / Netherlands	MINI All4 Racing
15th	Jakub Przygonski / Andrei Rudnitski	Poland / Belarus	MINI All4 Racing
23.	Boris Garafulic / Filipe Palmeiro	Chile / Portugal	MINI All4 Racing
43.	Nazareno Lopez / Sergio Lafuente	Argentina / Uruguay	MINI All4 Racing
52.	Adam Malysz / Xavier Panseri	Poland / France	MINI All4 Racing

Dakar 2017 (Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
6th	Orlando Terranova / Andreas Schulz	Argentina / Germany	MINI John Cooper Works Rally
7th	Jakub Przygonski / Tom Colsoul	Poland / Belgium	MINI All4 Racing
10.	Mohamed Abu Issa / Xavier Panseri	Qatar / France	MINI All4 Racing
13.	Mikko Hirvonen / Michel Périn	Finland / France	MINI John Cooper Works Rally
15th	Stephan Schott / Paulo Fiúza	Germany / Portugal	MINI All4 Racing
18th	Sylvio de Barros / Rafael Capoani	Brazil / Brazil	MINI All4 Racing
27.	Yazeed Al-Rajhi / Timo Gottschalk	Saudi Arabia / Germany	MINI John Cooper Works Rally

Dakar 2018 (Peru, Bolivia, Argentina)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
6th	Jakub Przygonski / Tom Colsoul	Poland / Belgium	MINI John Cooper Works Rally
13.	Boris Garafulic / Filipe Palmeiro	Chile / Portugal	MINI John Cooper Works Rally
19th	Mikko Hirvonen / Andreas Schulz	Finland / Germany	MINI John Cooper Works Buggy
20th	Orlando Terranova / Ronnie Graue	Argentina / Argentina	MINI John Cooper Works Rally

Dakar 2019 (Peru)

placement	Driver / passenger	nationality	vehicle
2.	Nani Roma / Alex Haro	Spain / Spain	MINI John Cooper Works Rally
4th	Jakub Przygonski / Tom Colsoul	Poland / Belgium	MINI John Cooper Works Rally
5.	Cyril Despres / Jean-Paul Cottret	France / France	MINI John Cooper Works Buggy
7th	Yazeed Al-Rajhi / Timo Gottschalk	Saudi Arabia / Germany	MINI John Cooper Works Rally
8th.	Boris Garafulic / Filipe Palmeiro	Chile / Portugal	MINI John Cooper Works Rally
13.	Carlos Sainz / Lucas Cruz	Spain / Spain	MINI John Cooper Works Buggy

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} X-Raid - website: X-raid GmbH. (No longer available online.) On: www.x-raid.de , archived from the original on January 3, 2014 ; Retrieved January 3, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} X-Raid - website: The team behind X-Raid. (No longer available online.) On: www.x-raid.de , archived from the original on January 3, 2014 ; Retrieved January 3, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Press portal: POL-OF: Press report of the police headquarters in Southeast Hesse from June 25, 2014 - Offenbach area, message 4, June 25, 2014
4. ↑ Mini John Cooper Works Rally: The Dakar racer for 2017 . In: auto motor und sport . ( auto-motor-und-sport.de [accessed on February 2, 2018]).
5. ↑ Mini John Cooper Works Buggy: Mini with new rear-wheel drive buggy for the Dakar . In: auto motor und sport . ( auto-motor-und-sport.de [accessed on February 2, 2018]).
6. ^ X-raid: Sainz, Peterhansel and Despres in the MINI John Cooper Works Buggy. Retrieved June 3, 2019 . 
7. ^ Strong Crews in the MINI John Cooper Works Rally. Retrieved June 3, 2019 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p} X-Raid - website: results. (No longer available online.) On: www.x-raid.de , archived from the original on January 3, 2014 ; Retrieved January 3, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ http://www.fia.com/node/4894
10. ↑ http://www.marathonrally.com/news/dakar_rally_2014_peterhansel_our_team_is_the_biggest_team_in_history.23959.0.html
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21. ↑ Classement général étape 12 auto page: Dakar. January 16, 2017, accessed June 3, 2019 . 
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23. ↑ Official Dakar rankings - bike - quad - car - SxS - truck. May 27, 2019, accessed June 3, 2019 .