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The Inca Challenge which will be used for warm-up at [20189004] Dakar 2019 will bring together the best bikers of the most difficult rally in the world, including the Spanish Joan Barreda and Laia Sanz, the Argentine brothers Kevin and Luciano Benavides and the Chilean Pablo Quintanilla.
For the Desafío Inca to be held from 13 to 16 September on the desert of Ica (Peru), on the same dunes as the Dakar 2019 confirmed their presence the main favorites to pass the major test next January.
On behalf of KTM, the team that has dominated the Dakar motorbike category over the last seventeen years, will be its last three final champions, the Australian Toby Price (2016), the British Sam Sunderland (2017) and Austrian Matthias Walkner (2018).
As representatives of the Austrian team will also be the Argentine Luciano Benavides and Catalan Laia Sanz, the best woman in motorcycle in the last eight editions of Dakar .
On board the motorcycles of ] Honda will be Castellón Joan Barreda and Argentine Kevin Benavides, who finished second in Dakar 2018 . The official team of the Japanese brand will be completed by the Portuguese Paulo Gonçalves.
For his part, the Pablo Quintanilla Chilean will continue to compete with the motorcycle of the Swedish brand Husqvarna, in the company of the American Andrew Short. 19659007] Yamaha will supply the French Xavier de Soultrait and Adrien Van Beveren, who returns to action after his accident during the last Dakar, in addition to Argentine Franco Caimi.
Similarly, the Indian Hero Motorsport team will put in action the Oriol Mena Spanish, best debutant of the 2018 Dakar, the Portuguese Joaquim Rodrigues and the Indian CS Santosh.
The host country will welcome Renzo Corno and Gianna Velarde, the first Peruvians to confirm their participation.
Corno will return to the tracks after his presence in the last Dakar while Velarde, from the world of the enduro, will have his first off-road competition on the way to the l & # 39; goal to debut in the Dakar
However, one of the main attractions of Desafío Inca will be on four wheels, like the French Stéphane Peterhansel, thirteen times champion of Dakar of them six The pilot Pablo Copetti will also be part of the Inca Challenge in the category of quads, after getting his driver's license, along with his wife, Andrea Meyer, driving 39, an off-road utility vehicle (UTV). maximum achievement to achieve third place in the Dakar 2017.
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