2024-05-19 17:11:33
Through the presentation, the director of the Dakar Rally, David Castera, introduced that the Dakar will stay in Saudi Arabia and can function a number of vital challenges.
One of the vital notable modifications is the totally different routes for vehicles, vans and bikes over the 5 race days. Because of this, the organizers needed to create extra tracks than standard. D. Castera defined that the totally different routes can have three penalties for the Dakar members.
This can assist the amateurs as a result of earlier they used to drive at night time on account of Saudi Arabia getting darkish early, however now they will not have the ability to try this. Nevertheless, this won’t make the race any simpler for automotive drivers, who must navigate extra, because the bikes won’t depart cuts. D. Castera mentions that that is for security: riders will keep away from mud and overtaking with vehicles.
Options of the 2025 Dakar Rally
The race will start with a prologue and a round dash that can begin and end on the Bisha bivouac, and levels 10, 11 and 12 will happen within the emptiest place on the planet – the damaging Empty Quarter. There, the members shall be ready for pace races, the size of which can exceed 350 kilometers, in addition to the well-known 48-hour and marathon pace races.
D. Castera says the rally would be the similar as final 12 months, however there will certainly be modifications: the final 12 levels will finish with a mass begin paying homage to the outdated days of the Dakar.
Organizers can even proceed the Dakar Future Mission 1000 program launched in 2024, throughout which all new applied sciences, corresponding to electrical or hydrogen vehicles, will have the ability to take part within the 100-kilometer part of every stage.
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing Baltics staff pilot Benediktas Vanagas shared what he discovered after the Dakar presentation.
“Abstract: Dakar stays in Saudi Arabia, however it’s a actually huge nation that may supply all of the challenges that Dakar wants. Organizers promised extra sand and dunes. I might be cautious of their promise as we hear it on a regular basis after we are in Saudi Arabia. Time will inform. The truth that the organizers of the race pay quite a lot of consideration to arrange a memorable Dakar, together with marathon pace sections, totally different geography and totally different tracks for various classes of members”, says the pilot who’s making ready to begin the Dakar race for the thirteenth time.
The beginning of the race is scheduled for January 3, within the metropolis of Bisha, and the end is scheduled for January 17. in Shubaita.
2024-05-19 17:11:33