{"id":97789,"date":"2020-01-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre.boxrepsol.com\/uncategorized\/isidre-esteve-heads-off-to-jeddah-excited-to-participate-in-the-first-dakar-ever-set-in-asia\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T07:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T09:23:54","slug":"isidre-esteve-heads-off-to-jeddah-excited-to-participate-in-the-first-dakar-ever-set-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boxrepsol.com\/en\/rally-en\/isidre-esteve-heads-off-to-jeddah-excited-to-participate-in-the-first-dakar-ever-set-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Isidre Esteve heads off to Jeddah excited to participate in the first Dakar ever set in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Isidre Esteve started his journey to Saudi Arabia<\/a>, the starting place of the 42nd Dakar Rally, the first to take place in Asia<\/strong>. The Repsol Rally Team driver took off from the Barcelona airport en route to Jeddah, where he will land tomorrow (Friday) morning, after a short layover in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are already raring to arrive in Jeddah to run the final test on the car, pass the prerace checks and start experiencing the ambiance of the new Dakar in Saudi Arabia. We\u2019ve been waiting for this moment all year and now we can finally say that it\u2019s about to begin\u201d<\/em>, said Esteve from Terminal 1 of the Barcelona airport.<\/p>\n

Dakar 2020 is full of unknowns that Esteve is taking on optimistically<\/strong>: \u201cIt will be a new race that will attempt to recover the African spirit of its roots with very long stages and a lot of time in the desert. The race’s time in South America was wonderful and we made great friends, but Dakar needed a change and I\u2019m sure that the race this year will be difficult and exciting\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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