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“Iveco Petronas De Rooy” beated the Kamaz, beated the Tatra, beated the MAN. Or: Again the Dutch stop the legendary Kamaz Dakar winning series – like 2007 the MAN with Hans Stacey. Or: The Italian truck-brand Iveco celebrates his first Dakar-win ever.
But there were quite a few milestones to mention: 30 years ago, father and team manager Jan de Rooy took his first victory in the truck league with his DAF 2800, with nose. In the meantime it’s also 25 years ago that the same legend won the truck league again with his DAF Turbo Twin II.
From today onwards we can start with a new legend: Son Gerard de Rooy gloriously took over the baton from father Jan de Rooy. From the first day onwards he knew how to manage the new De Rooy Iveco. He was on the lead from the 4th stage onwards and in total he took 5 stage victories. Some days the Team de Rooy was very dominating, especially in the 12th stage when they took the first 4 places.
Also the 2nd place is for Petronas Iveco: It’s Hans “Racey” Stacey, nephew of Jan de Rooy, who underscored the performance of the team. For Stacey also a new milestone: 5 years ago he took the 1st place in the Dakar with the MAN Team. This rally he had too many slight problems to win and took 4 times the 2nd place. Full marks for the professional attitude of the Dutch oil trader.
Today’s round was a round for the sponsors, friends and family and of course the Peruvian public. Team De Rooy´s Miki Biasion finished first in 27:22 minutes. It was the 3rd victory of the very sympathetic Italian in the Dakar Rally 2012. Due to 2 bad-lucks days Biasion had to be satisfied with the 6th place.
The fast service trucks completed the picture. “Ok, Jo Adua had an off-day yesterday and also Pep Vila had a bad day but at the end the Spaniard Pep Vila took the 11th place” reported the team. Frenchmen Jo Adua, who took the 5th place overall until yesterday, took the 16th place at the end.
Team manager Jan de Rooy made it to start with 5 Iveco trucks and to finish with 5 Iveco trucks. “This will be continued – that´s for sure” reported the team in the evening.
2012/01/15 | 23:37 CET | ARTICLE: MR/SY/DEROOY/HS