MKR gets a double in the opening leg
14.4.2019
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Total sensation! North-Bohemian MKR Technology team could not have wanted a better start. Both Dakar specials dominated the opening stage of the Morocco Desert Challenge. Martin van den Brink with the on-board mechanic Daniel Kozlovsky from Roudnice came got gold and Gert Huzink passed finished line on second place just a few seconds behind.
“Theopening stage was just a short 200kilometer prologue after a traditional gorgeous beach, which actually just set positions for start in the next act. Let's stand on the ground. Long and difficult kilometres are awaiting us, but it is absolutely great to start in front” said Mario Kress, lead designer of the two fastest racing special trucks in the opening stage.
The first leg of 11thedition of Morocco Desert Challenge started on the legendary Plage Blanche - a virgin white beach along the Atlantic coast and ended up two hundred and eighteen kilometres in Abetteh. North-Bohemian truck of the Dutch Mammoet Rallysport team arrived with the on-board mechanic from Roudnice as the first one to finish. Only fourteen seconds behind the winning crew finished the second truck from MKR Technology with pilot Gert Huzink of Riwald Dakar.
On Sunday, the rally will face the first long, entirely new stage, which will get crews to the desert of Sahara of Morocco. It starts with sandy trails and runs with an old forgotten Dakar piste in the southern direction far beyond Laayoune. Subsequently, there is a number of winding fast paths on the track with countless passages across sandy beaches and white plains. Stage 2 from Abetteh to Smara is slightly over four hundred kilometres long.
