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Dakar 2025 – Guillaume de Mévius and Mathieu Baumel, confidences before the start: “We are in symbiosis”

On the eve of the start of the Dakar 2025, Guillaume de Mévius (2nd in the Dakar 2024) and Mathieu Baumel (4 times winner of the Dakar) spontaneously took part in the game of joint interviews. Confidences of a duo who should play the leading roles!

Published 03/01/2025 à 17:00

Medhi Casaurang

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Dakar 2025 – Guillaume de Mévius and Mathieu Baumel, confidences before the start: “We are in symbiosis”

The Belgian driver and the French navigator are competing in the Dakar in this petrol-powered Mini JCW. © DPPI / Frédéric Le Floc'h

Separate stages, the key to the Dakar 2025 Mathieu, you are one of the most voluble characters of the bivouac concerning the separation of the courses between motorcycles and cars on this Dakar 2025. Why?

Mathieu Baumel: Because I think that's where the race will be played out! Guillaume de Mévius: We mustn't forget that when you open a special stage with motorcycle tracks in front of you (they always leave before the cars end rally-raid. Ed.), it's certainly not easy, but you still have a base. Not having a base is really a step above!

How is this concretely an aspect that will increase the difficulty of the race for the cars?

Guillaume de Mévius: A motorcyclist stands up, he sees 360 degrees, he has a very wide vision. I find that the great difficulty of being in a car is that there is no peripheral visibility. I don't know if it's harder than opening a motorbike, but the motorcyclist in any case, while standing, he misses a landmark, he misses a tree, he turns around a bit and gets back in order. In a car, we miss a track, we don't know how to take a landmark. And then, we turn around, you lose your direction, etc. Mathieu Baumel: And we get the dust that we had left in our wake!

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Medhi Casaurang

Passionate about the history of motorsport across all disciplines, I learned to read thanks to AUTOhebdo. At least that's what my parents tell everyone when they see my name inside!

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