When David tries to be Goliath
Picking up motorbikes by the front wheel is not the main activity that you expect a doctor on the Dakar to be involved in. David Delgado, an emergency medical response team doctor, can now boast this as a new feather in his cap. Since last year, he has accompanied Etienne Lavigne,...[more]
It’s like Federer and Nadal!
The gaps are extremely small in the general standings and you can feel the tension mounting between the two immense champions, Despres and Coma. They are head and shoulders above the rest, the best two competitors in their category, but both at the same level and excellent in all...[more]
1994: The anger of the “Mitsu” team
This new edition saw a change of scenery. This time it was a Paris-Dakar-Paris. The idea was appealing, but the race was still very difficult. The sand was so deep that even in the first few metres, the leading cars got stuck. The two Citroën ZX driven by Pierre Lartigue and...[more]
Oh time…
It is the founding principle of all races: to be quicker than your rivals. To help quantify this eternal challenge, technology has helped to make the organisers’ lives easier. Even in the era of GPS, official timekeepers are still present on the Dakar. Their mission concerns the delicate matter of recording the time for each competitor at the finishing line of every special stage. [more]
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