The 2023 FIA World Rally Raid Champion, Nasser Al-Attiyahhave signed for prodrive to argue the next FIA World Rally Raid Championship. The copilot Mathieu Baumel He will accompany Al-Attiyah in a Prodrive Hunter T1+ all-terrain vehicle with the main goal of winning the Dakar next January.
The two will fight as ‘Nasser Racing’ and will form a duo with Sébastien Loeb and Fabian Lurquin in the Bahrain Raid Xtreme (BRX) team. Five more Prodrive Hunters will also compete in the 2024 Dakar with the X Rally (Brazil) and YunXiang (China) teams for a total of seven cars in the Prodrive Dakar bivouac.
As part of your preparation for the event, Al-Attiyah and Baumel They will compete in the Baja Portalegre 500 (from October 26 to 28) and the Dubai International Baja (from November 10 to 12) to accelerate their Hunter preparation before the Dakar.
“It’s a very special feeling to go to Prodriveas I have seen in the past three years the team has worked hard to get to where they are today with Hunter,” said Al-Attiyah after his signing. “I am happy to join the Prodrive team with Mathieu, because I think he is one of the strongest in this sport. Over the years I have won with three different manufacturers in Rally Raid, but winning with a fourth car is a big goal for us. We look forward to it,” concluded Al-Attiyah.
Source: La Verdad
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