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This year V.Žala will try to beat the Dakar not with Saulius Jurgelėnas, as we are used to, but with the Portuguese P. Fiuza, Stephane Peterhansel’s former teammate in the “X-raid” team. In Dakar, Paulo has been racing since 2007, so the lack of experience really can’t complain.
On Tuesday, the Lithuanian-Portuguese duo leaned over the old road books. “What interested me the most was what communication will be like in the car. Already this morning we sit at a table with old road books and, quite simply, I look at the ceiling and Paul reads to me. It was very interesting how that communication will be understood, whether we understand it or not. So far, I’d say 90 percent. everything is fine, everything is clear.
We share some comments on what I would like to correct, what you mean by some terminology, because English will be my Dakar for the first time. You can see that you have mastered certain terms, it’s funny that you don’t have to turn your head, as it’s called, ”said V.Žala.
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The pilot was glad that the first impression was that everything was going well: “As a person, he is very warm, willing to communicate, he says, he has a lot of experience, he has been riding an X-raid for ten years, in motorsport maybe since 2000. It turns out that he has been at the top of a classic rally for many years as a co-driver. We talked about it, I wonder what kind of cars he drove. “
Vaidotas and Paul intend to go through at least some other old road books in this way, as Vaidotas says, “grind” because the more time you spend at the table with old books, the less problems you should have while driving in Dakar.
“So far, the impression is very good, I think the atmosphere in the car will be very good,” smiled Vaidotas.
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P.Fiuza shared with V.Žala and other experiences of the race. Let’s say how the so-called fast pilots run. Last year the Dakar was defeated by Paul with S. Peterhanselis, who, as a Lithuanian laughed, won the Dakar for the first time when Vaidotas was three years old.
The Agrorodeo team will take the last COVID-19 tests on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday the mechanics will drive to the port to bring all the cars, and on Thursday, the car tests.
It is true that many work teams are also waiting on Wednesday, when the mechanics will remove all the sailing equipment from the port, which they will have to prepare for the tests on Thursday.
“The last time I sat on the baby was two months ago, so we will dedicate the last day of this year to training, after which the Dakar train will start moving. We will have to go through administrative and technical commissions, after which we will have a prologue, podium and start ”, V. Žala told us on the way to the first speed section.
“I’m already very tired of getting in the car, because the last time I was sitting in Mažylys was two months ago. You also have to make sure that nothing slips last minute.
And everything, then the Dakar train begins: the administrative commission, the prologue, the podium and the first speed section on January 3. Today is the last calmest day, that train will run as far as possible, faster, ”said V.Žala.
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We remind you that S. Jurgelėnas did not attend this Dakar due to health problems. And in the last days before the trip, Agrorodeo had to urgently search for mechanics when it turned out that two of the three COVID-19 tests came back positive.
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