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This pair finished 57 minutes behind the leaders. and 10 sec., its preliminary place is 34º.
Edwin and Aisvydas told me after the finish that they had to wander a bit where more teammates got lost, and they also got stuck in the sand several times.
I did not warn about a colleague
However, most of the day was affected by the incident after driving about 100 km from the start, when they stumbled into a difficult-to-see spot behind a motorcycle lying behind the dune.
“There was a motorcyclist on the dune. We saw him, caught purely in the dune. He didn’t say anything to us, we were next to him. The Sentinel beeps, but we thought we were here because of this biker, and after crossing the dune we rode a motorcycle. But that motorcyclist didn’t tell us anything, he just stood there, “Aisvydas was concerned about the incident.
Edwin edited it and assured him that, fortunately, nothing terrible seemed to have happened.
“There was another motorcycle behind the dune. We did not drive a man, a motorcycle; Edvin was not in a good mood. – We broke some handles there. We stopped him, helped to steer the motorcycle to the side. The motorcyclist was like that … maybe not from us anymore, maybe something had happened to him a bit. Let’s go back to the bivouac, let’s look, maybe we did something for that motorcycle. It was like this … We didn’t really see anything, and his friend didn’t say he was there. “
The crew lost some time at this location, so they were overtaken by several cars, including trucks. So as Edwin said, the incident with the motorcyclist, “not what the thrill was,” could have affected the arena.
However, the most important thing is that no one was injured. “Everything is fine, let’s go bivouac,” summed up Edwin.
Marian Chytka and MMphoto nuotr./Edvinas Juškauskas and Aisvydas Paliukėnas
The motorcyclist is a newcomer to the Dakar
In a press release issued shortly thereafter, the team also wrote that this day was marked by the fact that the crew had just been run over by a motorcyclist who had forgotten about safety.
The former saw us perfectly and even went to the field to pass smoothly, but did not show that his colleague was also trapped behind the dune. Seeing it was there, we passed the dune and obstructed the motorcycle. We practically jumped on it, maybe we just damaged the steering wheel or the handles, ”said the pilot about the unpleasant event.
The former saw us perfectly and even departed towards the field to pass without problems, but did not show that his colleague was also trapped behind the dune.
According to him, the pilot is a newcomer to the Dakar, so it is possible that he did not know the basic rules. For example, if you got stuck in a dangerous place instead of trying to push the motorcycle, you had to put a warning sign at the top of the dune at the beginning. Sand rails or athlete’s helmets are commonly used for this purpose.
Could have ended sadly
By stopping together with A. Paliukėnas, they helped push the motorcycle to the side, because it was stopped in a very dangerous place, right in the path of the cars crossing the dune. He was afraid that the athlete who had not received help would stay where he was.
“If a truck had arrived at that time, I don’t know how it would have ended. This time the athlete himself did not suffer, we obstructed the bike, but then the race continued,” said E. Juškauskas.
The Lithuanian crew incident is a good reminder for all spectators to carefully choose viewing locations and provide participants with information about hazards on the track as quickly and accurately as possible.
The history of the Dakar is marked by a painful accident. In 2020, two motorcyclists died in the most serious injuries of the rally marathon: Paulo Goncalves from Portugal and Edwin Straver from the Netherlands.
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