While many are counting down the hours until the New Year, the members of the Guardia Civil Rallye Raid team are counting down the hours until they begin their adventure in the Dakar Argentina ? Chile 2011. Jose Manuel Galán and José Manuel Salinero will be ready to start their participation in the toughest raid event in the world. During Thursday, they passed the technical and administrative checks, and are prepared to start the adventure.
The members of the Guardia Civil Rallye Raid team went through the Rural Center in Buenos Aires, the place designated to carry out the sports checks before the start of the event. Galán and Salinero have had no problem in passing the technical and administrative checks, receiving the approval to participate in the toughest rally raid in the world.
The participation of a Guardia Civil team in the Dakar Argentina ? Chile is attracting the attention of local media. José Manuel Salinero and José Manuel Galán have been the protagonists of several reports on local televisions, newspapers and radios.
This will be the fifth participation of José Manuel Galán in the Dakar, the first in South American lands. This time he will do it as co-driver of the Guardia Civil Rallye Raid team, together with José Manuel Salinero. The Terrano Proto with Mitsubishi engine will have the number 394 in the current edition of the Dakar Argentina ? Chile.
377 kilometers to start the adventure
The first stage of the 2011 Dakar starts on New Year's Day. The teams will welcome the new year aboard their cars, motorcycles or trucks. A stage that will not be timed and will run between the cities of Buenos Aires and Victoria. Ahead, 377 kilometers of liaison and the chronometers will not work for this day of contact for the Argentine public.
A liaison stage that will serve to fine-tune the mechanics of the vehicles and see how it develops as the number of kilometers to be covered increases.
