Carlos Dadwho on July 2 had an accident in the Moto2 race in Portimao (Portugal) that kept him in a wheelchair, He will return to competition this July at the Baja España Aragón rally aboard an SSV four-wheeled vehicle and thus fulfill the goal of returning one year after his fall.
The Valencian pilot, a native of the Valencian municipality of Alacuás, will drive the ‘Side by Side’ of the Polaris brand with the Spanish team TH-Trucks and will begin its first tests in May with the aim of reaching the Baja España Aragón 2024 rally in the best conditions, the team itself reported in a statement.
The Spanish driver suffered a spinal injury after that accident and has continued rehabilitation ever since, but “he had a personal and professional challenge to go back to when he was a year old” after his fall and the participation in the rally-raid that this would enable him. who returned within a year and a few days.after the accident.
Dad, who will change motorcycles for four-wheeled ‘adjacent’ vehicles, stressed in a statement published by his new team that they have not had an easy month because after the injury he had to live for five months in the national hospital for paraplegics in Toledo, but now he has “rebuilt” his life and “feels life and ease” in himself again.
“When I rode a motorcycle, racing was everything to me, I lived for it. When I had the injury I knew from the beginning that I would come back. I don’t like the sofa, I want to be happyand that is what the competition gives me,” highlighted Dad, who said that he decided on the rally raid because “I wanted to feel again the sensation of being exposed to the unstable, to the turbulence that I felt on a motorcycle.”
Dad emphasized that it was “a whole new world,” but he stressed that he likes “the feeling of having control over something that is constantly out of control” and after speaking to Albert Llovera, a Dakar driver who was left in a wheelchair after fracturing his dorsal vertebrae, said to him. who can taste the “earth”.
So, this will be the beginning of the young Valencian runner in the world of the rally raid so that from the first race “he will be defined, adjusted and corrected to continue advancing to other bigger goals,” said Dad, who has finished the rally in Dakar “will be a dream”.
Source: La Verdad
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