The preparations for upcoming Rallye Dakar are approaching.
This race represent the turning point for Ales, the InstaForex Loprais Team driver, since he will start at Rallye Dakar 2015 in a new truck made by MAN which was prepared in a dutch team VEKA.
In his last performance at successful Rallye Breslau in Poland, he started with his special truck TATRA QUEEN 69, with which he placed 6th overall and won two stages at this year’s Dakar.
Technical official Fabien Calvet rejected the participation of the Queen at Dakar 2015, that is why this change needed to be realized.
Because all the information about the alleged technical differences and the necessities of rebuilding the whole special Queen came only three months before the truck transport to South America, we were forced to find different solution. Dakar is a whole year project and reconstruction of such an complex truck was for us impossible from both technical and financial reasons. Furthermore, our truck has a valid homologation till 2018 and is made from modified series components which allow us to participate at other marathon races such as Silk Way or Africa Eco Race with no problems. Currently we are negotiating the participation of our Tatra and a contract for a new pilot at mentioned Rally Africa Eco Race.
“I am very happy that in such a short period of time we managed to find cooperation with team Veka which provides us with competitive truck MAN for Dakar 2015” said Ales Loprais.
I would like to thank not only the team VEKA for this cooperation, but also the team BUGGYRA with which we started an alliance Loprais Buggyra Dakar Forces with Gyrtech aggregate.
The alliance spirit will continue on the roads as well as in bivouac at Dakar.
The press conference of InstaForex Loprais Team will be held on November 22nd 2014 at Budvar hockey arena in Czech republic.
Introduction of the team crew:
Pilot: Ales Loprais (Czech republic)
Navigator: Ferran Marco Alcayna (Spain)
Mechanic: Jan Van der Vaet (Netherland)