Antanas Juknevičius successfully passed the technical and administrative controls



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On Thursday, the team returned to the city of Jeddah the parts of the race car that had been removed due to the trailer, affixed the body with the necessary stickers symbolizing the Dakar participants, recovered and installed the necessary security and surveillance equipment. , and called the Dakar banks Antanas Juknevičius and Darius Vaičiulis. was able to test his car in sports mode on a test track.

Today, all the euphoria generated on the track has had to be put aside and concentrated to face the last obstacle that separates the team from the status of full participants in the Dakar. The administrative procedures, followed by a control of the installation of the security and surveillance equipment withdrawn from the organizers, and finally a technical commission was successfully passed, and a race car parked in a bivouac where the team will rest in the 11 kilometers opening ceremony and podium ceremony tomorrow.

“There are times when it pays to have an old car that has been inspected for many years in terms of time, and today’s quick technical inspection pays off, real proof of that. We go through all the paperwork much faster because everyone knows everything. The Chief Judge personally inspected our car four times, so he knows every detail of our body by heart, and let’s add that everyone knows a model like ours, ”said the cheerful driver Antanas Juknevičius, on Friday night with the team ha completed all the formalities and collected all the necessary stamps on the participant’s card.

The 2021 Dakar Rally will take place for the second time in Saudi Arabia from January 3-15. KREDA Team Leader: Antanas Juknevičius is Lithuania’s most experienced athlete who has finished all 10 Dakar. The driver improved three times the best result in the category of cars belonging to the Baltic countries. In 2018, A.Juknevičius was officially recognized as the Dakar Rally Legend.



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