Honda will participate in the motorcycle class in the 2014 Dakar Rally – Argentina, Bolivia, Chile to be held in January 2014 with its works team “Team HRC.”
Five riders—Helder Rodrigues (Portugal), Sam Sunderland (United Kingdom), Javier Pizzolito (Argentina), Joan Barreda (Spain), and Paulo Goncalves (Portugal)—will ride the new CRF450 Rally, a rally-racing machine specially developed for the Dakar Rally 2014. Team HRC took the CRF450 Rally for testing and competition to the Morocco Rally 2013 and the Merzouga Rally 2013 this October, which are considered as the preludes to the Dakar Rally. The team scored victories in both races.
To further popularize rally racing, Honda is planning to market the production model of the CRF450 Rally in 2014 for teams and individuals who are aspiring to compete. As part of the verification process, Honda will provide a pre-production model of the CRF450 Rally and on-site technical support to riders Pablo Rodriguez (Argentina), Jean Azevedo (Brazil), and Laia Sanz (Spain), all of whom will race in the Dakar Rally 2014.
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