Dacia: Virgin participation in Raleigh Dakar with top names

In the world’s toughest rally, in Dakar, he had announced that he would participate or from today he is thrown into the great battle. Rally Dakar is the inaugural round of the FIA 2025 World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC) and will take place 3 – 17 January in Saudi Arabia, in really difficult conditions, with 7,726 km, of which 5,145 are timed in these 12 days of intense competition. CORVERSE Starting with Bisha to the west of Saudi Arabia, Rally Dakar ends in Shubaytah, to the east through a rest day at Hail and an overnight break in the capital Riyadh. The routes include 48H Chrono covering 971 demanding racing kilometers. The team of Dacia comes after a successful test, in Rally, Morocco, having taken the first two places, and taking valuable lessons for the hard Rally Dakar. Dacia will use sustainable fuels and has worked a lot to improve potential engine reliability problems, during an entire day of operation at Sweet Lamb in Wales. For engine cooling performance and other aspects of the car, the climate aerodynamic tunnel was used at the MIRA facility in the United Kingdom, while some problems with electronics that appeared in Morocco, with the help of Alpine Racing, became substance improvements. Besides, the team also took many spare parts for short-lived components to have sufficient stock. Team drivers will be Nasser Al Atiya from Qatar who has won Dakar 5 times (2011 with VW Touareg, 2015 with MINI All4, 2019-202-2023 with Toyota Hilux). Second driver French Sebastian Leb, 9 times world champion rally (WRC), who has reached the source sometimes but failed to drink water in Dakar rally. Third driver Spanish Christina Gutierrez, who in 2027 was the first Spanish woman to participate in Raleigh Dakar and in 2024 won the T3 category.