Rally du Maroc 2022: Riwald Dakar leaves Rallye du Maroc with homework to do

Gert Huzink takes the positives from last week and the negatives need to be solved before the Dakar Rally. The Riwald Dakar leader grabbed just short of victory on the final day of the Rallye du Maroc on Thursday as the stage was shortened.

The final test was supposed to be 290 kilometers long, but was shortened halfway through due to rising fog. As a result, safety could not be guaranteed by the organization. "Today we did have a beautiful day, but it was shortened because of the fog," said Huzink. "That's unfortunate. At the beginning we lost time in the dust of Gerrit Zuurmond and I wanted to make up for that in the second half, but unfortunately we didn't get that chance. That's a shame, otherwise we could have won another stage."

It remained in second place. In the neutralized kilometers to the finish, Huzink had time to reflect on the past six stages, in which various problems came up: "I thought it over again on the way to the finish. We went through good and bad things, we have to take out the good things and solve the bad things. It's been a learning week, we've tested a lot. We learned a lot about the truck, for better and for worse. I think there's still homework for Dakar, but it will work out in the end."

The truck will be completely checked and prepared from front to back and bottom to top for the Dakar Rally in the coming weeks. Before shipping to Saudi Arabia, however, the annual Dakar pre-prologue is still on the schedule. "We like to attend the pre-prologue, so many people always come there and we have to show our face there. We enjoy doing that and driving a few more laps there."

Source Riwald Dakar Team
Automatic translation from the original Dutch version