Cristina Gutiérrez Herrero (born 24 July 1991) is a Spanish dentist and rally raid driver.
She became the first Spanish female car driver to finish the Dakar Rally in 2017 before winning the event in the T3 category in 2024.
[4] In 2022 she won the Extreme-E Championship alongside Sébastien Loeb in Lewis Hamilton's Team X44, making her the first Spanish woman to ever win it.
This accomplishment follows Jutta Kleinschmidt victory in 2001, 23 years prior, as the Dakar Rally continues to become more and more professionalized.
[19] The 2024 Dakar Rally proved to be Gutiérrez's crowning moment, as she profited from a late issue for leader Mitch Guthrie to win the event in the T3 category.
[20][21] In December 2020 she was announced as the female driver for Lewis Hamilton's Team X44 in Extreme E, partnering with Sébastien Loeb.
[24] Gutiérrez has also been her country's Women's Off-Road Champion since 2012, and outright vice-champion in the same discipline in 2015 following a series of second places in Spanish Bajas.
[25] In 2021 she became the first female driver to win an FIA World Cup for the Cross-Country Rallies title.