Nasser Al-Attiyah won the Baja Aragón 2023 this Saturday, an event that will also go down in Rally Raid history for being the last Baja to be contested by a Qatari driver in a Toyota. His final test with his current team is the next World Cup event to be held in Argentina, the W2RC World Cup, the Desafío Ruta 40.
According to information managed by MD, the current Dakar champion has no shortage of offers and has chosen to end his glorious period in the South African Rally-Raid structure of the Japanese firm this year to start a new phase in his professional career. Therefore, in preparation for the next Dakar, he must compete in the precursor to the Dakar event, the Morocco Rally, with his new team, which has yet to be announced..
In his plan, he does not set aside the sacrifice of victory in Dakar 2024 to bet on a project that may not yet be victorious, to lead a new wave of dominance in his new team. Nasser knew that other contending firms were closing in and that the Japanese firm’s dominating period could soon end. He decided to start on a new path thinking about new challenges, new hopes and being able to win as many Dakars as possible in the coming years.
“We have won the Baja Aragón for the sixth time and we lead the W2RC World Rally Raid Championship and I am very happy. But on the other hand I am sad because this is my last Baja with Toyota in this Baja Aragón. Such is life and I wish the team good luck for the future,” said Nasser as he got out of his car as the sixth-time Baja Aragón winner.
Nasser Al-Attiyah He has been a dominator in the last two editions with Toyota (2023 and 2022), a brand with which he has won three Dakars (also 2019). In 2015 he won the Dakar in MINI and his first Dakarian ‘bronze touareg’ was achieved in 2011, with Volkswagen. Therefore, Nasser has won the Dakar with three different brands and seeks to do so in a fourth despite the fact that if he decides to continue with Toyota, he knows that he is the favorite to repeat his success in Dakar 2024.
Source: La Verdad
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