Aaron Marè was initially speculated to race the Abu Dhabi Desert Problem on a KTM 450 Rally Reproduction, however will as an alternative be on a Hero 450 Rally in a reunion with Hero MotoSports.
Marè beforehand raced for Hero on the 2022 Dakar Rally, filling in for the injured Franco Caimi. He completed fifteenth total in his second profession Dakar, two years after crashing out of his début as a member of Monster Power Honda Rally Workforce. The beginning was his newest within the World Rally-Raid Championship as he didn’t participate 2023. Since then, he has primarily overseen and accomplished rally coaching in his hometown of Dubai.
He completed fourth within the 2021 Abu Dhabi Desert Problem, then a spherical on the W2RC’s predecessor FIM Cross-Nation Rallies World Championship. Sarcastically, he narrowly misplaced to Hero’s Joaquim Rodrigues within the battle for the ultimate podium spot.
“Wanting ahead to Abu Dhabi Desert Problem,” Marè commented. “It’s going to be a terrific honour and actually joyful to be alongside fellow African Ross Department. Keep tuned for the remainder of the week. Hopefully trying ahead to an excellent race and because of Waffi (Wolfgang Fischer, Hero supervisor) for this chance.”
Hailing from South Africa, Marè started his profession in motocross and competed within the FIM World Junior Motocross Championship earlier than beginning a profession in rally.
Hero is coming off a runner-up end on the Dakar Rally with Department, who scored two stage wins en path to the workforce’s finest ever efficiency in a W2RC spherical. His effort was a brilliant spot for the workforce as their different riders Rodrigues, Joan Barreda, and Sebastian Bühler have been compelled to retire. Bühler was going to race at Abu Dhabi however fractured two of his vertebrae in a Stage #3 crash.
Since Marè was already in Abu Dhabi, initially entered on a KTM for SRG Motorsports, Bühler’s absence means there are solely three riders together with Marè within the prime RallyGP class. The race begins Monday with a Prologue stage, with Marè the primary in his class to start out the leg forward of Mohamed Al-Balooshi and Department. With simply three of them, they’re every assured to face on the category podium so long as they attain the end, whereas Rally2 riders hope to play spoiler for the outright prime three.
