The crews and mechanics are now spending four days in Riyadh, and just east of the country’s capital, 346 measured kilometers will take place. You can find out about the detailed events here. “Even this stage will be quite exhausting. At first, it will be quite rocky, which takes the riders’ strength, but they still have to keep their energy for the final part in the dunes, “warns race director David Castera.
Many Czechs caught hard directives in the middle. The motorcyclist David Pabiška, who has a broken collarbone and rib, finished. Martin Macík gained a two-hour shortfall and the defense of last year’s fourth place in trucks is probably gone. Martin Prokop is also declining in the car category.
And so the biker Martin Michek rides the positive wave, ninth on Wednesday, which is his career maximum. “It is beautiful. One fulfills dreams and wants to move higher. This is a step forward again. I’m happy about it. But the Dakar is still long. I’m glad I followed up where I left off last year. Sometimes I also managed to improve, because last year I moved around the twentieth stage in stages. It’s a shift because none of the factory riders fell out and I’m attacking the ranks around tenth place, which is unbelievable, “he said.
And he also made his team boss, Ervín Krajčovič, happy. “We are fighting against teams that have completely different budgets. We are estimated at 10 percent of what Honda or Yamaha has. Maybe not even that. However, we train, develop and try to make the most of the minimum. But we stay on the ground, we do not underestimate anything and we are preparing for the next course of the competition, “said Krajčovič.
Will Michek cut any of the losses in the top ten today?
View from the cabin of a veteran. The crew of Olga Roučková, Robert Knobloch experienced a brutal trialVideo: Czech Samurais
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