Bournezeau Rallye Aventure, also referred to as Workforce B.R.A. for brief, can be pulling double responsibility in January 2025 as they plan to enter each the Dakar Rally and the Dakar Basic. Yannick Grèzes will race the previous in a Drakart Scorpion whereas his son Tenessy Grèzes and Julien Bessé enter the latter with a Toyota Land Cruiser HDJ80 and Mitsubishi Pajero V6, respectively.
Drakart is an American producer that builds side-by-side automobiles for American desert racing like SCORE Worldwide and Greatest In The Desert, although their automobiles are additionally FIA compliant and thus eligible for Dakar. In 2017, the corporate constructed a rally raid automobile loosely based mostly on the Ford Edge.
Grèzes’ Drakart Scorpion is a 2WD mannequin eligible to compete within the Challenger class. 2025 can be his first Dakar since ending ninety-third total and thirty-third within the H1 class on the 2022 Dakar Basic in a Suzuki Vitara. He beforehand raced the primary Dakar Rally in 2005 and 2007 on a motorcycle and automobile, respectively. Anthony Drapeau returns as his navigator after working with him in 2022.
Tenessy, who has shared automobiles together with his dad in French rally competitors since he was sixteen, completed eighty-first within the 2022 Basic (thirty-third in H2). He drove a Land Cruiser BJ73, which the household discovered was inside their value vary in order that they opted to race. Lucas Longepe, who has been associates with the youthful Grèzes since their early teenagers, can be his co-driver once more.
Bessé’ is the founding father of Config-racing.com, a web-based racing tools retailer that sponsored the Grèzes in 2022. Francky Corbeau will function co-driver.
Workforce B.R.A. was previously generally known as Workforce PGTP 85.
