Dutchman Janus van Kasteren (Iveco) confirmed the Dakar truck title in the final stage, with Lithuanian Vaidotas Paskevicius (Tatra) winning.
In the absence of the great dominators in the trucks of this century in Dakar, the Russians from Kamaz (by not condemning the war in Ukraine), and the abandonment of the Czech Ales Loprais (Prague) when he leading (after being run over. an Italian fan taking pictures behind a dune and died), the final victory was awarded to Van Kasteren.
“It’s not easy to win. You have to attack to the maximum at all times. Everyone had problems in this rally. We didn’t go far, with a fuel problem that lasted fifteen minutes, but we managed to control everything until the end and I was very happy. We made the difference by winning with a 30-minute lead with three days to go,” explained the champion.
It was enough for Van Kasteren to finish seventh in the final special, which Paskevicius won.
In the general classification, he surpassed the Czech Martin Macík (Iveco) by 1h14:34, who also did not remove the problems in Darkar 2023, and in 2h40:22 his compatriot Martin van den Brink (Iveco) , another one of those. who came to lead the time table.
Source: La Verdad
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