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Monster Energy Honda Team all set for Atacama Rally 2019 Rd 3 Cross-Country Rallies   

Aug 29, 2019


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Just a month and a half after finishing the Silk Way Rally, one of the season’s most gruelling races, the Monster Energy Honda Team engines are once again ready to roar into action for another FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship event: this time the Atacama Rally.

An 18,000-kilometre distance separates Dunhuang, where the Silk Way Rally concluded, from Copiapó, the Chilean city where the Atacama Rally is due to kick off in early September. The third date in the Cross-Country Rallies calendar begins on 1st September with the scheduled administrative and technical shakedown ahead of the curtain-raising prologue on the 2nd. In store are five stages in the Atacama Desert, the world’s most arid wilderness, which is set to include some 1200 kilometres of special stage against the clock.

Monster Energy Honda Team will field their entire squad as they return to Latin American for the team’s only rally date on South American soil. Argentinean Kevin Benavides, winner of the last Atacama Rally, Spaniard Joan Barreda, American Ricky Brabec and local boy José Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Cornejo all line up. The three riders who had previously competed in the opening two rounds of the world championship will be joined by American rider Ricky Brabec, who returns to the Chilean desert after the eighth overall place taken in the 2018 edition.

Although the race organisation has announced some new stretches, the race route remains basically the same as the previous edition, with a single bivouac in Tierra Amarilla, less than 10 kilometres from Copiapó and will include a marathon stage where riders are not allowed to receive any outside mechanical assistance.

After the Silk Way Rally, Kevin Benavides holds third position in the overall world championship standings with 51 points. Team-mate José Ignacio Cornejo lies in fifth position on 40 points and is second in the Junior category. Joan Barreda, with 22 points, is in eighth spot.

Atacama Rally 2019

Stage Date Place Special
Stage 1 3 September Atacama-Atacama 270 km
Stage 2 4 September Atacama-Vallenar-Atacama 370 km
Stage 3 5 September Atacama-Diego de Almagro-Chañaral 370 km
Stage 4 6 September Bahía Inglesa-Atacama 300 km
Stage 5 7 September Atacama-Atacama 170 km

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