Andrea Schiumarini will return to the Dakar Rally in 2024, driving a Century CR6 with Andrea Succi as his navigator. The trouble shall be fielded by TH-Vans.
“Let’s say that it’s troublesome to take away the sand of that race out of your helmet and the will to expertise the Dakar journey is at all times across the nook,” wrote Schiumarini. “I believed quantity 4 was a pleasant solution to enter a brand new chapter in my sporting historical past. However, on the identical time, I needed to be there with those that shared a part of this journey of mine. Right here is the Andrea Schiumarini and Andrea Succi workforce, alias AS2, able to take this stunning Century CR6 among the many dunes of Saudi Arabia to the Dakar 2024.”
Schiumarini made his Dakar début in 2019, driving a Ford Raptor to an total end of fifty-fourth and third within the T2 class. He moved as much as T1 in 2020, putting fifty-third total in a Mitsubishi Pajero. His most up-to-date Dakar in 2022, racing a T2-spec Pajero that obtained vital upgrades to adjust to T1 laws, ended with a seventy-first within the basic rating.
He didn’t return to the race in 2023 as he as an alternative prioritised novice occasions. Schiumarini deliberate to run the Africa Eco Race in March earlier than it was postponed to January 2024, the place it’s going to conflict with the Dakar Rally, so he flipped over to the Morocco Desert Problem in April. Schiumarini was no stranger to Morocco, having competed within the 2012 Tuareg Rallye the place he completed third.
Racing his Pajero, Schiumarini was set again by turbo points in Stage #5 attributable to intense warmth, however was capable of rejoin the race the next day. He completed thirty-first total.
Century Racing fielded ten automobiles on the 2023 Dakar Rally, all of which had been the CR6 line together with two turbocharged fashions. The CR6 will probably stay the commonest Century automotive within the 2024 version, although the workforce débuted the brand new CR7 earlier in October.
The 2024 Dakar Rally begins on 5 January.
