2024-04-23 17:56:00
The world is not a wish-granting factory.warned the American John Green with his best seller Under the same star to a class of young readers. Dreams are worked with fierce battles, knowing adversity and envy as well as perseverance and friendship. This is how these three Argentines live the road to Rally Dakarhis sporting objective, with Jeremiah Pascual taking firm steps like the best in motorcycling and Gustavo Milutin changing the angle of your life to achieve old goals. But often it is not enough and enjoying maximum personal effort is all that is rescued, as Ayelen Bogado seeing that his years of preparation were in vain because the race will not receive its categoryas announced a few days ago.
The Cordoban Jeremiah Pascualwho comes from a Dakar family due to the adventures of his father, Pablo, visited the development clinic of Jordi Viladoms, reference of the sports command. The Spaniard raced for ten years among the best in the Dakar (he was 2nd in 2014) and leads the KTM team with new figures and discovering talents. He was fundamental in six of the last nine victories, after the era of Marc Coma Vs Cyril Despres and there they run brothers Kevin and Luciano Benavides. The team manager spoke with Page 12 and showed his surprise at the clever young man he discovered in recent days: “Jeremiah was a pleasant surprise. He is young, he has talent for the motorcycle and, very importantly, he has a head.” This type of racing requires hours of concentration and improvement, so the mental factor is as decisive as that of speed. “He has qualities suitable for the rally which, plus youth, will give him a good career in rallies. I give him a very high mark… Damn, you have a good driver for the future. He did very well in Portugal, with his standard bike against the factory “The Road Book, the GPS, the new tablets that many do not know how to work are taught,” explained the KTM sports director, at the Viladoms Rally Station. Husqvarna and GasGas, which by being there ensure the recruitment of those who have a champion future. Pascual himself highlighted the experience: “It was incredible to be next to Jordi because there are always things to learn with him. Then, in the race in Portugal, I improved until in the last stage I could be 4th in my category and 9th in the General classification.”
Something similar does Javier Pizzolito in South America: “The descriptive feature of my clinics is direct, plan and execute projects so that they become a reality.” The man from Pina Mar, who was the first Argentine with a Honda HRC contract, explained that “The pilots arrive with dreams, we work in an orderly and professional manner“In fact, he worked the first years of Manuel Andujarworld champion and two-time winner of the Dakar in quadricycles and recently alongside the Mendoza native Gustavo Milutin, who changed his life to give himself the opportunity to fulfill his desire to ride a motorcycle and race in a rally. “In just one year we managed to go to world dates and it is a goal achieved; “Now he wants to improve his performance,” Pizzolito said. “There is still a lot to do, but this type of competition shows where you are and where you have to go,” Milutín said after the Portuguese commitment, the 3rd date of the Mundial de Rally Raid W2RC. “It was a pride to share with many Argentine pilots and to have the support of the team that helped me in the preparation,” concluded Milutín, knowing that the tournament will continue in your country from June 1 to 7 with the Ruta 40 Challenge through Córdoba, San Juan and La Rioja.
The experience of Ayelen Bogado, who could not be entirely happy to be part of a list sadly mentioned in recent days. The Dakar Rally recommended to the candidates that, to make their debut, they should run some World Cup events in their record, but then they announced that there will be no quadricycles in the Dakar 2025. The director of the raid, David Casteraconfirmed it in Portugal: “I ran into him on the first day, I asked him and he told me that there was not going to be any more Dakar for the four… It distressed me and left me blocked because I traveled with the objective of scoring points for the Dakar,” described the representative of Villa Madero. It took her a while to enjoy the experience, for which she had to rent an ATV and the team of mechanics, because “left me without a long-term goal“But, with pain, he faced the reality that he found. He abandoned the plan to run in Morocco in October and, like every day, he will put his strength into running the place where they serve the classic pizza by metro of Ciudadela. His share of Adrenaline will be in the national cross country tournaments and, if there is no turning back, he will say goodbye to the rally.