We have been warning about this for a long time. This is not a topic. He labored over it with dire results. Edgar Canet This is the great jewel of the future of raids and Dakarnot only for Spain, but all over the world. To him 19 years old, he debuted in the 2025 Dakar as the youngest official rider in history, with KTM. The team asked him not to run, that his goal was to learn and gain experience. But andThe boy from La Garriga, with amazing integrity, maturity and serenity despite KTM repeating that they are not asking for any results from him in this Dakar, started in a big way, like champions, shining in the preliminary stage of the Dakar 2025 with a very good third position to all the great and experienced favorites.
To Edgar Canet, who appeared before the favourites, Only the winner of the prologue stage, his teammate Daniel Sanders, could beat him with a time of 16’51″7 on a 29-kilometer sandy stretch. and very quickly where it starts to heat up. And Ross Branch (Bayani), the current world champion, although he achieved it in exactly the same time as the Spaniard, both 12 seconds behind the best. Edgar overtook the current Dakar champion, Ricky Brabec (Honda), who finished 18″ behind the best and favorite Spaniard on motorcycles, Honda’s Valencian, Tosha Schareina (25″)with Pablo Quintanilla in 6th position.
It should be noted that unlike cars, on a motorcycle the initial stage of the Dakar is counted in the general classification, which is why Edgar Canet started in third position in the Dakar classification. Furthermore, this third place will allow him to have a good starting position, without having to open the track, with all the big names from the Dakar.
Canet, leader in Rally2
As a debutant, despite riding the same KTM motorcycle as the other officials, he did not qualify for the subcategory RallyGP (queen class) and doing it in Rally2. And in that sense, he started as the overall leader of Rally 2, the silver class.
“The start was very good and I’m sure now the ‘pro’ riders will improve their times. Right now I’m updating (the classification) and I still see myself there in the classification, so i am happy”Edgar said to MD when he arrived at Bisha’s bivouac. The times of the great favorite theorists remained well known. But they come, and only one can defeat him, with Branch tying his time. Edgar would have done better if he hadn’t been distracted by the dust of the 7 pilots. A star is born.
Keeps your feet on the ground
“The stage was fast, the kind I like. I had to go into the dust and pass some riders who started in front of me. But I passed them well, without losing much time, and I’m happy with how it went “. Despite this, Edgar remains cool, calm and down to earth, knowing what his goal is in this Dakar.
“The goal starts tomorrow, the real Dakar, so for now we have to follow the same plan, not make navigational errors, or have any fears on the bike. I have a good feeling for tomorrow, so see let’s see how it starts,” he added to this newspaper.
For now, the Catalan managed to get rid of the butterflies in his stomach by starting to give gas to his new bike, the same KTM as the officials.
“When the clock reaches zero and I’m out of the prologue, the nerves are gone, I’m focused on navigating, without thinking about other things, and the truth is that it has been well, very happy because of how it went out and the Dakar has already started,” he added.
“The purpose of the prologue is where the Dakar really starts. Now it starts. It will be two very difficult weeks and we have to learn from all the mistakes and see how things go.”he added smiling, calmly, as if something normal had happened.
Source: La Verdad
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