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Eighteen Belgians will be at the start of the 41st edition of the 2019 Dakar on January 6th in Peru. They are divided into six cars, four trucks, zero motorbikes and zero quads. The last Belgian biker hired, Jeroen Ramon, had abandoned in the second stage last year.
Tom Colsoul, again badociated with Poland's Jakub Przgyonski (MINI John Cooper Works), arrives with his recent victory in the Cross Country World Cup as a reference. The duo was fifth, their best result at the Dakar, in 2017.
The Liegeois Fabian Lurquin who had not come since 2014, arrives with partner Mathieu Serradori (Buggy). Stéphane Prévot is also "married"to a Frenchman, Philippe Gache (buggy). Charly Gotlib, a "veteran" of the Dakar, has traded his heavy trucks against a buggy Can-Am, he will share with the French Claude Fournier.
If all the Belgians on the set were "than"navigators" since 2015, there is this time of change since some will be driving and not with the map on the lap.
Especially the Henrard Racing drivers: Stéphane Henrard (Dunbee-Henrard Racing) himself, the creator of the car that looks like a VW ladybug, and Philippe Lambilliotte (Dunbee-Henrard Racing).
Without forgetting Jean-Marc Fortin, the teammanager of Overdrive Racing, who hired no less than eleven Toyotas, including three from Gazoo Racing. His team includes a total of 102 people.
Only the trucker Peter Willemsen (Iveco) is part of a top team, the Team De Rooy, in this category, where he competes with the Dutch Ton Van Genugten and Bernard Der Kinderen.
The entrepreneur Peter Van Delm will ride in the company of Kurt Keysers and Steven Vaesen (Ford). His friend Yves Rutten will make him travel through the sands with Franco Christophe and Peter Convents.
Finally Dave Berghmans, Bob Geens and Colin Damien (Iveco) make up the fourth Belgian crew in trucks under the colors of Overdrive, as a support team.
The regulars Dave Ingels, Steven Rotsaert, Jan van der Vaet and Serge Bruynkens are this time to the absent subscribers.
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