Albert Llovera is not going to race Fesh Fesh‘s Ford Cargo EVO I truck within the 2025 Dakar Rally, although the crew is open to a reunion sooner or later.
“Sadly, Albert Llovera is not going to be becoming a member of us for the 2025 DAKAR Rally,” reads a crew assertion on Thursday. “Nonetheless, we consider that our collaboration will proceed, and we look ahead to assembly once more on the DAKAR Rally or different races in 2026. Due to this fact, we’re in search of a brand new crew for the particular FORD CARGO EVO I.”
Llovera joined Fesh Fesh in 2022, however his IVECO retired after seven levels. The crew launched the Ford Cargo, a 4×4 truck which was developed in partnership with Ford Spain, for the 2023 version. Nonetheless, mechanical gremlins plagued him once more, starting with a damaged rear axle differential on the opening stage earlier than being knocked out altogether two legs later.
His niece Margot Llobera and Marc Torres rode with him for the most recent version in January. After three legs, Llovera opted to take a seat out Stage #4 on account of a critical headache that he attributed to potholes and bumps; so as to add insult to damage for Fesh Fesh, their different truck of Vaidotas Paškevičius retired that very same day on account of radiator harm. Llovera subsequently rejoined ther rally as a part of the Dakar Expertise and efficiently reached the end seventeenth within the Truck class. His greatest every day outing was a tenth in Stage #10.
Llovera, a former alpine skiier who took half within the 1984 Winter Olympics, is one in all a handful of disabled racers as he makes use of a wheelchair on account of a extreme spinal damage. His truck has adaptive controls and pedals to assist him pilot it. He has raced the Dakar since 2007, initially beginning in a automobile earlier than switching to a truck in 2016; his greatest end was fifteenth in 2020 in an IVECO for Workforce de Rooy.
Fesh Fesh additionally has a Tatra Jamal pushed by Paškevičius and a brand new Tatra FF7 that Tomáš Vrátný débuted ultimately weekend’s Baja Poland, the place he completed third amongst Polish Cross-Nation Rally Championship vehicles.
