Artur Ardavichus and Tomáš Vrátný successfully completed Rally Dakar 2014! Both crews of the team Bonver Dakar Project finished in tied 12th and 28th place in the last stage. Pep Vila Roca completed the last stage in exactly the same time as Artur. Congratulations and thanks to all of you for your support!
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2014
Both trucks of the Bonver Dakar Project finished the Dakar!
January 18th, 2014
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Loprais gets 2nd stage victory, Karginov the overall Dakar winner.
January 18th, 2014
Finally, the clash of titans between Iveco and Kamaz will have been a close one until the very end. Although the Russian team seized the overall lead from the get-go with Ayrat Mardeev and was still in the pole position with Andrey Karginov twelve stages later as the race came Valparaíso, the outcome of the [...]
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Tatra produces more lorries than at any time since 2008
January 18th, 2014
Tatra produces 763 lorries in 2013, highest since 2008
Czech lorry maker Tatra produced 763 units last year, the highest figure since 2008, and sold 722 vehicles, around two-thirds of them abroad, Tatra spokesman Andrej Čírtek told the Czech News Agency (ČTK) today.
This year’s sales target is 760 units.Preliminary sales reached 2.99 billion Kč last year, [...]
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Dakar Team Holland
January 18th, 2014
In the 11 stage, Blom finished 20th, in the 12th stage he finished 27th. He is now 29th overall.
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Loprais comments on stage 12
January 18th, 2014
18.1.2014
NEWSLETTER INSTAFOREX LOPRAIS TEAM
Failure took the chance to podium away
In the penultimate stage of this year’s Dakar from El Salvador to La Serena it went about a lot – it was actually the last opportunity to get some time and improve the position in the overall ranking. But there was a bogey [...]
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Stage 12: Loprais strikes trouble while de Rooij and Karginov battle for the overall lead.
January 17th, 2014
Stage 12: The site chosen in El Salvador at high altitude towers over the usual location of the bivouac in Copiapo. This position will ensure that the Camanchaca, the morning mist which sometimes hinders the start of the stages, will be avoided. Sand will be featured on the route again, in particular with a big [...]
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The Bonver Dakar Projekt Tatras and stages 10 & 11
January 17th, 2014
10th stage
The tenth stage of the famous Dakar rally were measured 684 km and ran along the shores of the Pacific Ocean from Iquique to Antofagasta city . A itself should be one of the toughest stages of this legendary desert competition.
Artur Ardavičus completed the very demanding tenth stage in fourteenth place, loosing 1 hour [...]
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Dakar Team Holland
January 17th, 2014
Mechanic Jeffrey Schoo of the Dutch Tatra Phoenix, missed the 10 th stage due to illness. He was checked at the hospital and was allowed to continue but to prevent any risks, Schoo went with the service truck where he got some rest. The two-men crew took it cautiously in the 10th stage, arriving [...]
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Loprais’ 11th stage
January 17th, 2014
17.1.2014
NEWSLETTER INSTAFOREX LOPRAIS TEAM
After gold the fourth place and suffering in the eleventh stage
Yesterday three minutes after ten o’clock Aleš Loprais started the eleventh stage of the Dakar adventure. He ran to the special stage connecting the Chilean cities Antofagasta and El Salvador from the first position., because he won [...]
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De Rooij looses overall 1st place to Karginov
January 16th, 2014
Stage 11
In addition to the distance, here the competitors will be put to the test by all the difficulties offered by the Atacama Desert… and will have to display all the qualities required for off-road races. After the mine tracks and the many rivers to cross, they will have to distinguish themselves in the heart [...]
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