This Thursday, November 28, Barcelona hosts the route presentation of the 48th edition of the Dakar Rallywhich will take place from January 3 to 17, 2025 in Saudi Arabia. The event, which will be held at at 7:00 pm at the Moll de la Marina, in the Olympic Port, it is free and open to the public.
The cars and drivers are there
It will have a sample of some of the cars that will participate in this year’s competition and the presence, among others, of the race director, David Castera and the Sports Councilor of the Barcelona City Council, David Escude. They will also be present some of the pilots who will participate in the competition:
- Tosha Schareina, official Honda driver
- Lorenzo Santolino, Sherco official driver
- Cristina Gutiérrez, official Dacia driver
- Laia Sanz, SRT team driver
- Nani Roma, official Ford driver
- Isidre Esteve, driver of the Repsol Toyota Rally Team
- Gerard Farrés, Pedregà Team driver
- Lucas Cruz, Ford’s official co-driver
- Jordi Juvanteny, registered in a hydrogen-powered truck
- Carlos Santaolalla and Jan Rosa, winners of the Dakar Classic 2024
The Dakar delegation, from the 28th to the 30th in Barcelona
The delegation of the competition, in fact, will be placed in the Parc del Fòrum from November 28 to 30space chosen by the race organization Perform technical and administrative verification of all vehicles, including for racing, assistance, press and organization. In this sense, citizens will be able to reflect in this space on the activities of the organization and see how the teams that will participate in the project pass the verifications. Dakar.
The councilor of Esports, David Escudé, emphasized that “Barcelona is again the beginning of this test and we hope that, like last year“The presence of the cars in Forum Park creates a great public celebration where everyone wants to be with the drivers who will take part in this legendary competition.”
Cars boarded Barcelona for Arabia
Dakar 2025 will start in Bisha on January 3 and finish in Shubaytah, in the vast desert of the ‘Empty Quarter’, on the 17th.. But, before exploring Saudi Arabia, a first sea voyage awaits hundreds of vehicles. They will board Barcelona and travel to the port of Jiddah, once they have passed traditional administrative and technical controls.
Having the Dakar for the second consecutive year in Barcelona represents a new milestone in a relationship that began in 1989when the Catalan capital was the end of the first stage of the rally that started in Paris.
The old beach of the Free Zone hosts the show-off stage before the cars take off for Tunisia, on their way to Dakar, the capital of Senegal. In 2005, Barcelona rewrote its name in the history of the event, hosting the start and start and finish of the first stage running entirely on Catalan territory. On that occasion, instead of embarking in Barcelona, the expedition continued by land with a second stage ending in Granada.
Source: La Verdad
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