Matthias Walkner
HeadercolorSandyBrown
SportMotorsport
EventRally raid
Birth date1 September 1986 (age 40)
Birth placeKuchl, Austria
Worlds

Matthias Walkner (born 1 September 1986) is an Austrian rally raid biker and former motocross rider, official driver of the team Red Bull KTM Factory for the Dakar Rally.[1]

Biography

Walkner won the 2012 FIM Motocross World Championship (MX3 class) and 2015 FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship. As single race of the world championship (cross-country), he has won 2015 Sardegna Rally Race and 2017 Rallye OiLibya du Maroc.[2]

Dakar Rally

YearBikeRankStages
2015KTM 450 RallyDNF1
2016KTM 450 RallyDNF0
2017KTM 450 Rally2nd1
2018KTM 450 Rally1st1
2019KTM 450 Rally2nd2
2020KTM 450 Rally5th0
2021KTM 450 Rally9th0
2022KTM 450 Rally3rd0

References

  1. ^ "Matthias Walkner" (in Italian). redbull.com. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
  2. ^ "OILIBYA MAROC 2017 - BIKE/QUAD". npolive.com. Retrieved 18 January 2018.