26.12.06

Lisbon Dakar Adventure

Lisbon Dakar Adventure

The competitors will one more time go to leave of Lisbon for a off road of 8696 km, 5010 of which chronometered, throughout 14 stages, trough the Lisbon Dakar Adventure.

The special pilots and motards will go to carry through the first battle in two portuguese ground stages, will go later crossing the Mediterranean and in the African continent they will cover four countries, Morocco, Mauritânia, Mali and Senegal, where the final classification will after be established the stage between Tambacounda and Dakar, in Saturday 20 of January. In the following day, the competitors who have reached Dakar will go to take part in the show off I Grand Prix of the Lac Rose, a spectacle race organized in a closed circuit in the beach where the traditional cerimony of the podium is carried through.

As it succeeded the passed year in the Lisbon Dakar Adventure, Portugal for the second time receives the Great one Broken from the Euromilhões Lisbon-Dakar: the Square of the Empire is the chosen place to receive all the caravan from the test. Although the enormous gotten success, wants in public terms wants of comforts for all intervening the direct ones in the test, the organization intends to improve the model of this still more 29.ª edition, being foreseen some alterations. One of them will be the possibility of all the loving ones of the modality and the Lisbon-Dakar to have access in one of the days to the zone of verifications techniques.

1.ª Stage

In 6.1 the competition starts: Lisbon-Portimão the competitors will go to try new and completely innovative a stage, with 120kms chronometered, in a total of 495 km. The participants will go to be placed to the test in a surprising passage that will pass for Alcácer of Sal and Grândola, and that she will have a little of everything what can be found in the African tracks: he will have fast parts, techniques, much sand, dunes and jumps. Public they go it to be installed 4 zones ZE), that they will be the privileged places to attend the ticket of the competitors. Duly designated and with accesses that will be divulged in the press, these ZE are the option more comfortable insurance and to see the Euromilhões Lisbon-Dakar 2007.


2.ª Stage

In the following day the emotions come back to the road, already in Portimão, Monchique and Silves, the stage will have 60 km chronometered in Algarve ground before heading to ferry for Morocco. This will be a special one with typically national tracks. That is, the singular floor folloied for the mountain range, that almost becomes the stage in a WRC class.

The great alteration in this second stage is the fact not to count on the participation of the trucks, due the claims on the last year(?). The morphology of the special one, disputed in mountain range, with narrower and ravinas zones, dissuades the ticket of the “monsters” of the Lisbon Dakar Adventure.

In 2007 Lisboa Dakar Adventure, the stages route the Tichit and Tombouctou will not have vehicles of assistance in bivouac. But the assistance between competitors will be allowed. The machines will have of being preserved in Lisbon Dakar Adventure, therefore they will be covered about 2,500 quilómetros with only one “stopping in boxes” (Nema). During one of the stages, the motions will have its proper bivouac, located about 100 km of the used one for the competing remains of rali. An feeding tent will be mounted in the place, as well as a repairing zone in which the pilots can work in its motions, with a small amount of available equipment.

Between the 250 motos, 187 cars and 88 trucks that will leave Lisbon, the competition will be very intense in Lisboa Dakar Adventure. Portugal goes to be represented well with a number that now promotes the 40 pilots (and copilots) to the departure. Vehicles with the national colors will be 28, as 15 automobiles, 11 motos (two in 2 quads) and 2 trucks. Portugal is the fourth represented nation more, after France, Spain and Holland.

source: official site



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