Jacky Ickx: “Difficult to cheat on the Dakar”

Invited by his wife, the Senegalese singer Khadja Nin, to follow the 44th edition, the man with twenty-nine stage victories enjoyed his reunion with a bivouac. Between selfies, indelible autographs on vehicles and advice to Danilo Petrucci (“I told him to take it slowly despite his stage victory”), Jacky Ickxe tells us more about his privileged relationship with an event that changed his life.

Published on 15/01/2022 à 12:00

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Jacky Ickx: “Difficult to cheat on the Dakar”

Jacky Ickx and Khadja Nin © DPPI

You often say that the Dakar represented a turning point in your life. For what ?

Intellectually, I changed spheres when I discovered the Paris-Dakar. Before, I only had a goal of performance, of ego, what is necessary to win. But the discovery of new horizons, and of the humans who compose it, has changed my way of thinking. I saw other people who lived differently, with different means. Until then, I had a narrow, “monorail” view, although I was interested in other things. The discovery of the forgotten people of this world, of universes that I