2009 Dakar Rally

[Marcel vd Aa]

#66

Name: Marcel Butuza
Nationality: Romanian
Date Of Birth: 10-03-1965
Experience: 20 Years International Trial, Cross and Enduro
Goals: Finally Finish Dakar
Bike: KTM
Mechanic:
Website:

Previous Results:
2008 Central European Rally - 27th Place Overall
2007 Pharao's Rally - 12th Place Overall
2007 UAE Desert Challenge Dubai - 36th Place Overall

Vectra Racing Team Website: http://vectraracing.com/

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

#67

Name: Alex Garbacea
Nationality: Roumanian
Age: 25
Goals: Finish Dakar
Bike: KTM
Mechanic:

Previous Results:
2008 Central Europe Rally - 53rd Place Overall
2007 Pharao's Rally - 30th Place Overall
2007 Rally Di Sardegna - 26th Place Overall

Vectra Racing Team Website: http://vectraracing.com/

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

The road to Buenos Aires goes through Le Havre

A first series of technical and administrative scrutineering started today at the docks of Le Havre. In two days, close to 720 vehicles will be fully checked, that’s 80% of the total of cars, bikes, quads, trucks and assistance vehicles that will take part in the 2009 edition of the Dakar.

Only most of the professional competitors as well as the non-Europeans will not be present. The others will leave their machines in Normandy to be shipped during over three weeks across the Atlantic Ocean to reach the South American continent.

Two hundred people - volunteers and employees – are busy making sure that all the vehicle documents are in order. Another series of scrutineering, more focused on the competitors will take place in Buenos Aires on the eve of the start of the rally.

Read more at Dakar.com

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

The Dakar boards for South America

Next stop, Buenos Aires ! The administrative and technical scrutineering for the Europeans finishes Thursday evening at Le Havre where the last of the 710 vehicles will go through a mandatory series of checks.

From then on the machines will be waiting at the Parc Fermé at the harbour of Le Havre, ready to board. The ‘Grande Benelux’, the boat that will be crossing the Atlantic Ocean is expected at Le Havre on Sunday evening. The first machines will enter the ship on Monday at 6 in the morning.

Some 820 vehicles will then be placed on board (710 for the race and assistance as well as around 60 organisation vehicles and 50 for media) for a departure scheduled on Monday evening.

The starting point of a journey that will finish the 16th or 17th of December at Zarate, the harbour of the Argentinean capital. Around a hundred vehicles (Asians, Americans, South Americans and top teams) will go through their technical scrutineering in Buenos Aires the 31st of December and 1st of January.

Read more at Dakar.com

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

Scandinavia Team

#4

Name: Pal Anders Ullevalseter
Nationality: Norway
Date Of Birth: 07-12-1968
Bike: KTM 690 Rally Replica

Previous Results:
2007 Dakar - 4th Overall
2006 Dakar - 6th Overall

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

#22

Name: Thomas Berglund
Nationality: Sweden
Bike: KTM

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[Marcel vd Aa]

#65

Name: Francisco Arredondo
Nationality: Guatemala
Bike: KTM

No Further Information Available At This Point

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

HFP Offroad - MAD 53 Team

#7

Name: Michel Marchini
Nationality: France
Date Of Birth: 14-02-1971
Bike: Yamaha WR450F
Website: http://www.marchini-michel.com/accueil/index.html

Previous Results:
2008 Rally Of Marocco - 4th Overall

Website HFP: http://www.hfp-offroad.com/

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

#34

Name: Michael Pisano
Nationality: France
Date Of Birth: 22-09-1983
Bike: Yamaha WR450F
Website:

Previous Results:
2008 Tunisia Rally - 2nd Overall

Website HFP: http://www.hfp-offroad.com/

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

#62

Name: Charles Caron
Nationality: France
Date Of Birth: 20-01-1971
Bike: Yamaha WR450F

Previous Results:
No Information Available

Website HFP: http://www.hfp-offroad.com/

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

#132

Name: Bertrand Besse
Nationality: France
Date Of Birth: 02-03-1963
Bike: Yamaha WR450F
Website: http://bertrandbesse.com

Previous Results:
2007 Shamrock Rally - 28th Overall

Website HFP: http://www.hfp-offroad.com/

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

#153

Name: Andre LeNoble
Nationality: France
Date Of Birth: 24-03-1964
Bike: Yamaha WR450F

Previous Results:
No Information Available

Website HFP: http://www.hfp-offroad.com/

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

#154

Name: Philippe Pennarun
Nationality: France
Date Of Birth: 31-05-1969
Bike: Yamaha WR450F


Previous Results:
No Information Available

Website HFP: http://www.hfp-offroad.com/

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

Thierry Bethys Racing

#8

Name: Thierry Bethys
Nationality: France
Date Of Birth: 07-07-1971
Bike: Honda CRF450
Website: http://www.thierrybethys.com/

Previous Results:
2007 Dakar - 8th Overall
2006 Dakar - 18th Overall

Website Honda: http://powersports.honda.com/motorcycles/off-road/

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

#54

Name: Fabrice Monteaud
Nationality: France
Date Of Birth: 26-06-1958
Bike: Honda 400XR

Previous Results:
2007 Dakar - 38th Overall

Website Honda: http://powersports.honda.com/motorcycles/off-road/

 

[Marcel vd Aa]

Orlen Team

#10

Name: Jacek Czachor
Nationality: Poland
Date Of Birth: 22-06-1967
Bike: KTM

Previous Results:
2006 Dakar - 16th Overall
2005 Dakar - 12th Overall

Orlen Team Website: http://www.orlenteam.pl/
KTM Website: http://www.ktm.at/KTM-Racing.5350.0.html

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

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[Eddie Lynch]

Best looking bike hands down.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Dakar Trucks Thread

All truck stuff here

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Dakar move was 'very difficult'

Dakar Rally race director Etienne Lavigne has said swapping Africa for South America due to fears of a terrorist attack has been far from easy.
Drivers will set off from Buenos Aires on January 3, 2009 for a 15-day off-road race that takes in the sprawling Pampas plains, snow-peaked Andes and Chile's Atacama desert.
The Amaury Sport Organisation, which runs the event, cancelled the 2008 edition at the 11th hour due to security concerns.
Free of the worries of militant attacks, Lavigne nevertheless said defining the 9,578km route and getting the necessary permits from the authorities on time had been tricky.
"Everything was a really big challenge ... it was very difficult because we didn't have much time and everything was new," he told Reuters.
Race organisers spent 100 days covering around 12,000km before defining the route and final plans are being checked even as the 230 motorbikes, 30 quad bikes, 188 cars and 82 trucks sail from France.

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