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Ekström with Mini on the Andalusia Rally
We left him on the knees after an exhausting first Dakar in Saudi Arabia in January 2021. Mattias Ekström has since recharged his batteries and the Swede has decided to continue his discovery of rally-raid.
The world champion of rallycross 2016 will swap during the Andalusia Rally (Spain, May 12-16) the small Yamaha YXZ1000R in category T3 for neither more nor less than a Mini John Cooper Works Buggy from the X-Raid team, identical to the victorious car in the hands of Peterhansel-Boulanger this winter!
From there to see in this promotion an ideal trial run with a view to Dakar 2022 with a manufacturer whose colors he wore for many years (Audi), there remains one step that the result of this rally will take care of submitting.
Stéphane Peterhansel and Édouard Boulanger absent in Andalusia, the X-Raid team's hopes for victory will rest on Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz. The Spaniards will ride aboard the reliable Mini JCW 4×4.
Their compatriot Laia Sanz will try her hand at driving a Mini JCW 4×4, one month after making her debut in Extreme E. The biker, 13 times world trials champion, thus confirms her desire to move from two to four wheels in rallying. raid.
Medhi Casaurang
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