Barcelona smells like Dakar. This Thursday, the Ciudad Condal is the capital of Dakarwhere on the same day that the 2025 route of the world’s toughest race was announced, the test director, David Castera, and a large cast of stars and their cars were presented to the world in a unique setting, at the Moll de La Marina, in Port Olímpic.
There, citizens, tourists and enthusiasts Dakar They themselves learned the explanations of Caster about the heavy journey he created and listen to the early sensations of the main characters such as Nani Romewho will seek success in cars with a new project of Fordas well Lucas Cruzco-pilot of Carlos Sainzalso to Ford to defend his scepter.
There is another of the great, Cristina Gutierrezwho this year made her debut in the premier car category as an official Dacia driver, the first woman since Jutta Kleinschmidt to do so after winning the 2024 Dakar in the light prototype class. One of the local icons cannot be lost, the Catalan Laia Sanz, who will compete in her 15th Dakar, her 4th by carthis time with the SRT team, to continue to shine to get the necessary support in the future to compete with an official team.
Isidre Esteve, who presented this Thursday morning his project with the Repsol Rally Team with Toyota Spainmade clear his ambition to aim for a Top-20 in a car, which was highly contested given the many top cars present. With his usual joy, Gerard Farrés also shined, who this year will drive the SSV with the Pedregà Team in search of his well-deserved ‘touareg’.
On motorcycles, the Valencian Tosha Schareinaone of the favorites to win at Honda, and the man from Salamanca Lorenzo Santolinowho want to aim for the Top-5, presented their candidacy to excel Dakar in an iconic place, in front of the beach Barcelonawhere is the truck Jordi Juvantenypowered by hydrogen, has caught everyone’s attention.
Also Carlos Santaolalla and Jan Rosa, Dakar Classic 2024 winnershave shown their desire to repeat the victory.
Until November 30, in front of the eyes of the citizens
This event was held last year, but in a more complicated location for the public and with bad weather. This time, the success in choosing the Port Olympic as a scenario before shipping vehicles to Saudi Arabia from Port of Barcelona so that more people can come to see the Dakarian cars and stars.
This ceremony has every chance to be repeated in the coming years due to the organization’s satisfaction with the logistical facilities offered by the Port of Barcelona for the boarding of vehicles, although there is no official agreement.
This Thursday’s event is the cherry on top of several days of work for the Dakar caravan in the Catalan capital, which has been installed until November 30 in the Parc del Fòrum to carry out vehicle verifications, work that citizens can see for free. A Dakarian party in the heart of the city
Source: La Verdad
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