Sam
Sunderland
United Kingdom
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Rally Raid
Date of birth | 15 April 1989 |
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Place of birth | Southampton, UK |
Age | 35 |
Nationality | United Kingdom |
Career start | 2012 |
Disciplines | Rally Raid Bike |
Having shredded the tracks and trails of the British motocross scene since he was seven years old, Sam Sunderland has become a true international star, garnering a reputation as a fast and accomplished desert rider. His first major victories came in 2011, when he won two stages of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge and three others in the Australasian Safari.
Sam's inaugural Dakar outing was on New Year's Day, 2012 – at just 22 years old, he took an impressive seventh-place finish on stage one of the event, but his dreams of a Dakar title were shattered when an electrical fault forced him to retire during day two.