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The most striking mark of the Dakar was undoubtedly left by the German Jutta Kleinschmidt. Obsessed with the idea of desert racing in 1986, Jutta embarked on an adventure that even now seems absolutely insane: she showed up uninvited at first and followed the athletes for three weeks.
In total, the 24-year-old girl drove up to 10,000. km to Senegal through Spain, Morocco and the Sahara desert, without navigation equipment or mobile phone, every day outside the bivouac, setting up a tent that he himself carried on a motorcycle.
J. Kleinschmidt appeared on the official Dakar participant list in 1988, but did not reach the finish line when he was flying with BMW. Later, a couple of times (1992 and 1994), Jutta was ranked 23rd and 22nd in the motorcycle rankings, and in 1995 he got behind the wheel of an SUV.
Already in the first attempt, she finished in 12th position, took 5th place a couple of years later and in 1998 she went down in history as the first woman to win a speed section. That year, after five stages in Dakar, J. Kleinschmidt was ahead, but breakdowns, errors and scare after the armed robbery led the driver to occupy 24th place at the final table.
The photos of Utah hit the pages of the world’s media in 2001, when he and patrolman Andreas Schulz patiently stepped forward to the lineup and finally took advantage of the desperate duel between the leaders, Jean-Louis Schlesser and Hiroshi Masuoka. . The former was fined 60 minutes for unsportsmanlike conduct, and the latter broke the suspension of the SUV and lost almost half an hour in an attempt to win on the penultimate stage. This helped J. Kleinschmidt break through and achieve a historic victory.
This year, the legendary Dakar Lady arrived in Saudi Arabia as an official FIA officer and witnessed another historic event: Christina Gutiérrez won the first 277-kilometer stage in the SSV (light motorcycle) class. No member of the fairer sex has been able to do it since 2005, when J. Kleinschmidt outdid all men.
By the way, in the case of this Spanish, the expression ‘the fair sex’ must be understood directly. An athlete in her thirties looks like men who involuntarily approach her, even when they don’t have a belly. But if it’s just a nice little thing, the following really makes you raise your eyebrows.
Ch.Gutierrez won the second-richest entrant (61 drivers) in the class, which includes motorsport celebrities with titles like Mattias Ekstrom, Kris Meeke, 2017 Dakar winner Sergei Kariakin and a dozen other top-tier professionals. The competition here is beastly, therefore bring The crew can get a good result by working with the precision of a Swiss watch and mentioning the throttle as if a feeling of fear has come loose from baby teeth.
It is also interesting that a few years ago Chutiérrez studied the subtleties of driving skills at a special FIA camp, where J. Kleinschmidt shared his experience. For Christina, this Dakar is already fifth. All the previous times he reached the goal. She was ranked 44th, 38th, 23rd and 40th. This year, the Red Bull company took over the girl.
According to the iGo2Dakar team, this year only due to the turmoil caused by the pandemic, which complicated the efforts of many athletes to form a budget, another lady in the history of this race, who planned to start in the light motorcycle class, Anastasia Nifontova , did not come to the Dakar. In 2019, she became the first woman to win the endurance race in the “lonely” class: “Original by Motul”.
Surely a broken Russian would have created competition not only for Ch. Gutiérrez, but also for a sauna for men starting in this weight class. Anastasia won the FIM Women’s Cross-Country Rally World Cup in 2015. In addition, she is the only woman among the top three athletes in her country in up to five disciplines: motocross, enduro, supermoto, cross-county rally and ring racing.
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