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Aron Domżała (born 1 August 1989 in Barlinek, Poland) is a Polish rally driver. In 2016, together with Szymon Gospodarczyk, he won the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies in the T3 class. In 2021 together with Maciej Marton in the colors of Monster Energy Can-Am took 3rd place in the Dakar Rally.

Car rallies
He made his debut during the 2008 Warsaw Barbórka rally. In the following years, he competed in the Polish Rally Cup. In 2012, he took part in the Polish Rally Championship, taking 4th place in the CEFT class. In 2013, he competed in Lithuania, he won the Lithuanian championship in class 5. In 2014, he made his debut in the World Rally Championship in the JWRC class, at the end of the season taking 7th place. In the same year he won the Barbórka Warszawska Rally in class 2. In 2019, together with Jarosław Baran, they won the 5th place in the general classification in the 76th edition of the Rally Poland (Škoda Fabia R5).

Starts in the FIA ​​Cross Country Rally World Cup
In 2015, Aron Domżała began competing in the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies driving a Polaris RZR 1000 in the T3 category. His debut took place at the Baja Aragón, where he finished 2nd in his class. Until the end of the year he took part in two rallies, Baja Poland where he took 1st place and in Morocco where he was on the podium in his class. In 2016, he completed all 9 rounds of the World Cup, winning four times in the T3 category and finally winning the World Cup in this category. At the same time, the Baja Portalegre 500 made its debut in the T1 category in the Toyota Hilux from the Belgian Overdrive. In 2017, he took part in 10 rounds of the World Cup in Toyota Hilux T1 from Overdrive racing. He ended the season in 3rd place in the general classification. The best result of the season was the 3rd place in the Kazakhstan Rally.

In 2018, together with Maciej Marton, they took part in single rounds of the World Cup.

Starts in the Dakar Rally 2019 - debut in the Dakar rally (Toyota Hilux), on the fifth stage he was 8th. Due to the car stuck on the rock ledge, he was forced to end the rally after the 5th stage. This season, together with Maciej Marton, they won 3rd place in the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge (Toyota Hilux) rally, and then they changed the car to the Can Am Maverick X3 from South Racing for the Morocco rally. During the Rally Morocco they won 2 special stages in the T3 category (UTV).

2020 - Start in the Dakar Rally in the SxS (UTV) category in the Can-Am Maverick X3. He won the first stage of the rally, then he was on the stage podium 4 more times. The engine failure forced the crew to replace it, for which she received a 50-hour penalty. Eventually, they finished the rally in 30th place in the SxS light vehicles (UTV) category.

2021 - Start in the Dakar rally with Maciej Marton in the colors of Monster Energy Can-Am in the Can-Am Maverick X3 car. Eventually, they finished the rally in 3rd place in the SxS Light Vehicle (UTV) category. They also won the first place in the fourth stage of the rally. This is the first time that a Polish car crew has stood on the podium of the Dakar Rally.