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Teruel - Two defects in the very finish killed pilot Arthur Ardavichus’ podium dreams on his way to defending last year’s victory in the Spanish Baja Aragon Rally. On the track there was also our mechanic Jakub Hřava with Ardavichus in the cabin. Eventually, the Kazakhstani-Czech crew occupied sixth place, while the race was dominated by De Rooy from the Netherlands. The best Tatra and Bonver Dakar Project’s pilot was Tomáš Vrátný, who came in a fourth place by only a narrow margin.
Sports fan from the Židovice village, where our technology centre is based, had a chance to see an incredibly captivating football match. Our team played the household squad in an exhibition that finished with a result more fitting for ice-hockey, a 5:5 draw.
Amazing victory! Bonver Dakar Project’s Tatra run by an engine from our technology centre triumphed at the Pharaons Rally. The Kazakhstani pilot Artur Ardavichus literally flew over the Egyptian sand dunes and achieved a well-deserved win in his category this year. The result has made us even more happy due to the fact that Ardavichus’ crew mechanic was one of our own, Jakub Hřava.
About fifteen thousand visitors of the Zahrada Čech exhibition area (translated as „The Garden of Bohemia“ in English) had the opportunity to see our Dakar special. The traditional motorshow broke visitor records and it was our truck constructed for the Dutch Mammoet Rallysport team that was among the greatest crowd-pullers.
Bad luck that’s hard to believe made our team wrap up the Libya Rally in Morocco prematurely. In the ill-fated stage four the oil tank got punched in a place that made even the experienced constructor Mario Kress shake his head in disbelief.
The opening episode of the Libya Rally went absolutely fantastic for us, as Martin van den Brink reigned over the introductory stage completely.
Our racing team has set off to Morocco. With our „Dakar“ special we are about to start in the opening stage of the Libya Rally. The race track stretches over nearly two and a half thousand kilometres and we will have seven days to get to the finish in the city of 1001 nights, the imperial seat of Marrakech.
Spot on. The north-Bohemian MKR Technology team definitely have nothing to be ashamed of. They provided technical support to a total of five racing trucks, building two cars from scratch and constructing engines and electronic systems for three. The team accompanied all five cars along the track. Despite the fact that one third of crews had to quit the famous Dakar Rally, those carrying MKR label arrived at Buenos Aires save and sound. Eventually, the Dakar 2015 mission was 100% completed 100%.
The fight is over! 37th year of the roughest rally on the Globe has finished. The famous Dakar has come to its end and with it all five trucks of the unique alliance technologically supported by our team. Considering the fact that one third of trucks did not reach the finish in Buenos Aires, this is an unparalleled success.
Incredible misfortune befell the racers in the penultimate stage of this year’s Dakar Rally. The twelfth timed test proved as rather tricky. Moreover, the crews, already coming close to the finish, had to tackle the intrigues of the track as well as unbelievable technical problems. As a result, Martin van den Brink or Artur Ardavichus with his Roudnice mechanic Daniel Kozlovký were eliminated from the fight for a solid ranking.
There are only two stages left before the 37th stage of the world’s most famous and toughest rally ends. However, five crews onboard the trucks with technological support of our team have promising positions and hopefully will step up the final Dakar Rally 2015 podium together. Nothing changed either after the 11th stage, in which Martin van den Brink finished on eighth position and the remaining four of the trucks from the Czech-Dutch alliance arrived only a little later.
The Dakar Rally is heading to its finish, yet the racers have experienced the feelings of mountaineers climbing the Everest. The tenth stage of the famous distance race led the crews from Chile back to Argentina. Technology got as far as five thousand metres above the sea level. Saturday‘ finish is already very close and no one wants to make a mistake. The pilots are more careful and also the differences in the timed stages have been shorter. The town of Salta, final destination of stage ten, witnessed a great finish performance by Martin van den Brink, who is taming a truck built in our workshop. Dandy arrived on thirteenth place.