Stellenbosch se voormalige Dakar-kampioen, Giniel de Villiers, wat einde verlede jaar ook die Suid-Afrikaanse veldtydrenkampioenskap saam met sy navigator, Dennis Murphy, gewen het, jaag vanjaar in sy 20ste Dakar-veldtydren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die byeenkoms is n\u00e1 die eerste week, wat erg onder die gunstelinge in motors en op motorfietse gemaai het, as die moeilikste n\u00f3g beskryf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Giniel, wat vir die internasionale Toyota Gazoo Racing-renspan in \u2019n doelgeboude Hilux in die T1+-klas jaag, het nog elke Dakar-ren voltooi, en was in almal behalwe een onder die top-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die teenspoed het Giniel-hulle vanjaar effens gery \u2013 hoofsaaklik pap bande weens die uiterste oppervlakke. \u2019n Mens sou dit nie in die woestyn verwag nie, maar groot dele van die roete oor vanjaar se 14 sneltrajekte en die derduisende kilometer wat die deelnemers van en na hul oornagtentkampe na die begin en van die einde van die sneldele af op openbare paaie moet ry, is baie klipperig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ten spyte daarvan was hy n\u00e1 die eerste sneltrajek Dinsdag (10 Januarie) in die vyfde plek algeheel, maar dit het tot dusver baie beter met sy TGR-spanmaats in hul identiese Hilux\u2019e gegaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk kan net hoop vir minder pap wiele in die oorblywende week van die ren, soos vandag, want ons het tot dusver \u2019n strawwe tydjie gehad,\u201d het Giniel Dinsdag n\u00e1 sneltrajek 9 ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns het in die eerste week baie tyd verloor deur in oorlewingsmodus te ry, maar met \u2019n bietjie geluk kan ons terug op die aanval kom \u2013 veral in die sand van die Le\u00eb Kwartier.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die 2022-wenner, Nasser Al-Attiyah van Katar, en sy Franse navigator, Mathieu Baumel, is meer as \u2019n uur los voor, en die enigste jaer wat doer ver agter hom voortstorm, is hul spanmaats Henk Lategan en Brett Cummings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die naaste ander jaers is steeds die Brasiliaanse jaer Lucas Moraes, wat ook in \u2019n SA geboude Hilux jaag (hy is tweede), en S\u00e9bastian Loeb in sy Hunter in die derde plek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nie een van die drie tegnologiese petrol-elektriese Audi e-tron-motors wat Giniel-hulle nie juis kon be\u00efndruk nie, is onder die voorste tien nie en hou dus geen bedreiging in vir die ses Hilux\u2019e onder die voorste tien motors in die 2023-Dakar-ren nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wat Dinsdag (10 Januarie) se eerste sneltrajek (SS 9) n\u00e1 die rusdag betref, het die roete erg onder die topjaers gem \u201cVandag was maar moeilik aan die begin. Die eerste 50 kilometer in die duine was erg \u2013 baie \u2018gebreekte\u2019 duine waar dit baie moeilik was om (anderkant) te sien, maar daarna was die roete redelik vinnig. Ons het baie water te\u00ebgekom waar ons nogal versigtig moes wees en seker maak jy kies die regte pad deur, want jy kon maklik daar vasgeval het. Ons het net een keer effens gesukkel om \u2019n navigasiepunt op te spoor, maar nie te lank gesoek nie, maar uiteindelik was dit \u2019n redelik goeie dag,\u201d het hy van die tentkamp by Haradh in die ooste van Saoedi-Arabi\u00eb ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Giniel se ouers, Smittie en Annamarie de Villiers, volg hul bekende renjaerseun elke dag op die internet en saans op TV. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBehalwe vir die frustrasies met die pap wiele is ons gerus dat Giniel ook met sy kop ry. 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