Rallye du Maroc 2022: Estonia’s Triisa and Meeru embark on new adventures

Unlike neighbouring Lithuania, Estonia hasn’t really “invaded” the cross-country rally scene recently. However, for the Estonian crew competing in this year’s Rallye du Maroc such events are anything but new. Even if this is only their second race together, they both have vast experience, even from Dakar – but on two wheels.

“It's the third day in Rallye du Maroc, around 300 kilometers. For us, it was a bit strange day. It started already a little bit tricky because we had a little issue again with GPS. We managed to fix it before the start. After the start, I don't know, maybe one kilometer we break the tire already. So we needed to fix it. After that the tracks looked really rough, there were big stones. So we took it a little bit easier to not break already in the beginning the second spare wheel.
But we didn't break it and we follow that track and I'd say at halfway we already caught up with some group of SSVs and we followed with them really well to the filling point at 202 km it was quite OK so far. But after the filling, we had quite big navigation issues. There was a riverbed and we didn't find a good place to go out there and lost some valuable time there. But after that, when we managed to follow and find the road again until the finish it was good. But today there was a really strong wind and some places sometimes were really hard to see because there was kind of a sandstorm here,”
Toomas Triisa said.

His co-driver, Mart Meeru, added:
“During the Dakar we’ve seen many dunes, but when you ride on the bike and it's totally different from when you're sitting in the car. First, you go up and you don't see anything, then you go down and you again don’t see anything. It's totally different condition, very hot and very windy. Before the end it was so windy, sand was flying everywhere, we didn't see anything. This was very good for the navigation I practiced a lot today because you don't see the other lines.”

Text: Rita Kónya
Interview: Sveta Amelichkina
Photos: MCH