Francisco Álvarez has pencilled in his Dakar Rally début for 2025, lastly making use of the free registration he earned for successful the Highway to Dakar on the 2023 Sonora Rally in Mexico.
Alvarez beat sixteen different riders at Sonora final yr for the bike Highway to Dakar ticket, which waived him of software charges for both the 2024 or 2025 Dakar Rally. He elected to skip the 2024 version, explaining in January that it “provides me one yr to arrange higher and purchase the sources.
“Operating the Dakar will not be simple in any respect. It’s one thing very troublesome in lots of features by way of preparation, bodily too, studying to navigate, and other than that, getting the sources in a rustic like Colombia the place now we have a small motorbike tradition.
“Now we have all of 2024 to do these and be capable of take a aggressive mission to the Dakar in 2025 and obtain one thing much like what we did in Sonora.”
Álvarez primarily competes in enduro, successful the Latin American championship in 2020 adopted by the Colombian nationwide title two years later in 2022. His achievements have allowed him to characterize Colombia on the FIM Worldwide Six Days of Enduro, incomes two silver medals and a bronze. He’s additionally a multi-time nationwide champion in motocross.
Sonora was a part of the World Rally-Raid Championship just like the Dakar in 2023. Though not on the schedule, it’s nonetheless a Highway to Dakar occasion for 2024 and awards the identical variety of qualifying factors as different W2RC occasions.
The 2025 Dakar Rally is scheduled for 3–17 January.
