French rally driver. He was twice winner of the Paris-Dakar Rally on a motorbike (1981, 1982), and he also won the Paris-Le Cap in 1992 in a Mitsubishi; he is the only man to have completed the course by motorbike and car. He won the Rallye des Pharaons in 1994.
Hubert Auriol (born in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, June 7, 1952) is a former French racing driver and former director of the Paris-Dakar Rally. From 1979 to 1994, he took part in the Paris-Dakar Rally, taking part in the first nine events on a bike and the remaining seven on a car. After breaking both ankles on the penultimate day of the 1987 edition, while he was in the lead, Auriol switched to the car class in 1988, first racing a works Mitsubishi Pajero Proto T3, but after losing the event to Ari Vatanen in 1990, switched to the Citroën team, winning in 1992 with a ZX Rallye Raid, co-driven by Philippe Monnet.
In 1994, Auriol joined Dakar organizer TSO and became race director of the event he won for three times, starting in the 1995 edition.
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