Juan Manuel González Corominas (born May 24, 1968 in

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

off-road Off-roading is the act of driving or riding in a vehicle on unpaved surfaces such as sand, dirt, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, or other natural terrain. Off-roading ranges from casual drives with regular vehicles to competitive events w ...

motorbike and ATV driver. He started racing on

enduro Enduro is a form of motorcycle sport run on extended cross-country, off-road courses. Enduro consists of many different obstacles and challenges. The main type of enduro event, and the format to which the World Enduro Championship is run, is ...

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

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races. He has competed in the

Dakar Rally The Dakar Rally () or simply "The Dakar" (), formerly known as the Paris–Dakar Rally (), is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO). It is an off-road endurance event traversing terrain much tougher than convent ...

, driving a quad, since

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

2006 Dakar Rally The 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, Wester ...

in quads category.

Honors

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

External links

* 1968 births Living people Dakar Rally drivers Spanish rally drivers Off-road racing drivers Off-road motorcycle racers {{Spain-autoracing-bio-stub Dakar Rally co-drivers Catalan rally drivers