Dakar 2024 – Nani Roma, at low heat

The Dakar is a long-term event, but one of the 755 competitors has already won a victory on the evening of the first stage, contested against a backdrop of Saudi volcanic rocks. However, his record, already laudatory, will certainly not be enriched by a second trophy representing a Touareg. He hasn't even planned for additional checked baggage space on January 20 in Yanbu, and in fact doesn't even want it. Not this winter. Nani Roma is a cancer survivor, and driving a 4×4 developing nearly 400 horsepower in the desert of Saudi Arabia makes him extremely joyful. “ How lucky I am to be able to continue after so many years “, he begins in French marked by the rolling of the “r”. What does it matter if the first three brittle stages of the 46th edition of the rally-raid have already relegated him to more than half an hour from the leading men. The essential is necessarily elsewhere,