Dakar – Victory by braking for Nasser Al-Attiyah

Change the finely cut grass of the hedges of a French racecourse for sand, replace the horses with camels and you get a camelodrome, the place where the “sport of the sheikhs” is held every Friday. In the Middle East, these camel races are so anchored in local culture that UNESCO classified this discipline as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity in 2020, shortly after the Dakar burst into Saudi Arabia. This is good, Friday has also become the final arrival date of the rally-raid ces trois dernières années afin de respecter le jour de repos hebdomadaire. En parcourant les 164 km qui le mènent à la dernière cellule de chronométrage près de Qiya, Nasser Al-Attiyah n’a pas eu à cravacher sa monture pour remport