Short facts:

Date of birth: 19.01.1957

Place of birth: Saint-Mihiel / FRA

Place of residence: Epernay / FRA

Family status: married, 1 daughter
Hobbies: jogging, swimming, Nordic walking, cinema, reading

Michel Périn is one of the most experienced co-drivers in the off-road sport. Together with Frenchman Pierre Lartigue, he celebrated three Dakar wins. He joined Team X-raid in 2009, secured his first win for the squad in the same year by winning the Baja Spain – and won a stage of the 2010 Dakar Rally. He contested the 2011 season and the 2012 Dakar as navigator of Spanish driver Nani Roma and in the latter, the pairing celebrated a major success by finishing runner-up.

Summary of his Rally Experience (Co-Driver)

2012

• 2nd Dakar

2011

• 3rd Tunisia Rally
• Rally Dakar – MINI All4 Racing (Co-driver of Guerlain Chicherit)

2010

• 5th  OiLibya Rally of Morocco
• Rally Dakar

2009

• 1st  Baja Espana
• Rally Dakar

2008

• 1st Central Europe Rally (Co-driver of Carlos Sainz)

2007

• 1st FIA Cross Country World Cup (Co-driver of Carlos Sainz)
• 9th Dakar
• 1st Transiberico Rally
• 2nd UAE Desert Challenge

2006

• 11th Dakar (Co-Driver of Bruno Saby)
• 10th UAE Desert Challenge (Co-Driver of Carlos Sainz)

2005

• 1st FIA Cross Country World Cup (Co-Driver of Bruno Saby)

1996

• 1st FIA Cross Country World Cup (Co-Driver of Pierre Lartigue)
• 1st Dakar (Co-Driver of Pierre Lartigue)

1995

• 1st FIA Cross Country World Cup (Co-Driver of Pierre Lartigue)
• 1st Dakar (Co-Driver of Pierre Lartigue)

1994

• 1st FIA Cross Country World Cup (Co-Driver of Pierre Lartigue)
• 1st Dakar (Co-Driver of Pierre Lartigue)

1993

• 1st FIA Cross Country World Cup (Co-Driver of Pierre Lartigue)