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Ignacio Casale Biography
Four wheel motorcycle racer who is recognized for having placed in second at the Dakar Rally in 2013. His popularity in the sport led to him amassing more than 110,000 followers on his ignacio_casale Instagram account.
He competed in the trucks category of the 2010 Dakar Rally with his father.
He was featured on the cover of the November 2017 issue of Revista Tacómetro.
He married María José Galilea in 2017.
He had the opportunity to meet the Chilean president Sebastián Piñera at La Moneda Palace.
Ignacio is the son of Francisco Casale, an off-roader competing in the Jeep Fun Race in Chile in the 1980s and 1990s, and Mónica Catracchia. He shares the love of motorsport from his father and uncle, beginning to race in motocross competitions and race as the co-driver for his father in the Dakar Rally.
Ignacio Nicolás Casale Catraccia (born 27 April 1987 in Santiago, Chile) is a four-wheeler motorcycle rider who won two times in the quad bike category of Dakar Rally. He moved to the UTV category after his second victory on the Dakar Rally in 2018.
Casale took part in the 2010 Dakar Rally with his father, competing in the Trucks category. They finished in 26th place, earning Casale a wild card place in the 2011 Dakar Rally, where he finished 40th in the motorcycle category. The following year he competed in the four-wheeler category and finished in fourth place, the highest ranked Chilean rider. In the 2013 Dakar Rally he won the seventh stage, becoming the first Chilean to win a stage in the Four-Wheeler category. He went to come second overall, behind Marcos Patronelli, the best result achieved by any Chilean in the history of the Dakar Rally.
Casale performed well throughout the 2014 Dakar Rally, finishing first in seven of the 13 stages (stages 1, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 13) and holding the overall number one spot from stage 7 through to the end.
In 2014, after 14 days and 5,000 miles of riding through the Argentinean and Chilean Andes, Bolivian salt plains and the Atacama desert, Casale won his first Dakar victory.
In the 2015 Dakar Rally he retired in stage 10 due to a mechanical problem after winning 3 stages and being the leader of the general classification of the first two stages and the eighth stage. He would then retire in the 6th stage of 2016 Dakar Rally due to an accident. The 2017 Dakar Rally saw a return to form with a runner-up finish and two stage wins in the quad category. He would then win his second Dakar title in the quad category of the 2018 Dakar Rally.
Casale later meet Chilean president Sebastián Piñera at La Moneda Palace in Santiago. He has told the media that he intends to defend his Quad title at the 2015 Dakar Rally.
He began racing in the UTV category since his run at the 2018 Atacama Rally in Chile. In the 2019 Dakar Rally, he moved to the UTV category and will race with Americo Aliaga as his co-driver.
What's Ignacio Casale Net Worth 2024
Net Worth (2024) | $1 Million (Approx.) |
Net Worth (2023) | Under Review |
Net Worth (2022) | Under Review |
Net Worth (2021) | Under Review |
Net Worth (2020) | Under Review |
Ignacio Casale Family
Father's Name | Not Available |
Mother's Name | Not Available |
Siblings | Not Available |
Spouse | Not Available |
Childrens | Not Available |