Mitchel van den Brink wins MDC rally
Mitchel van den Brink and navigator Bart van Heun from the Eurol Rally Sport team have won the 2024 Morocco Desert Challenge in the overall SSV classification.
February 23, 2023
Nasser and Mathieu will be joined by teammates Henk Lategan and co-driver Brett Cummings, who finished in 5th place in this year’s Dakar. The latter pairing will be doing the Desert Challenge as a once-off event, and will not officially be entering the W2RC for 2023.
Both crews will be competing in the GR DKR Hilux T1+, which won its second consecutive Dakar Rally earlier this year. The cars, fully provided with the Eurol Specialty Racing line, has proven extremely tough and reliable. At this moment Nasser Al Attiyah is with 85 points on second position of the world championship, only two points behind Sebastien Loeb. He is focused to push for victory in Abu Dhabi, in order to take the outright lead in the W2RC standings.
This year’s Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge is set to kick off with a prologue, to determine the starting orders for Stage 1, on Sunday 26 February. This will be followed by five stages, totalling 1,311km. The total distance for the event, including liaisons, will be 2,168km, with the timed stages varying in length between 208km and 310km. The event is scheduled to finish at the Energy Business Centre in Abu Dhabi City on Friday 3 March.
Mitchel van den Brink and navigator Bart van Heun from the Eurol Rally Sport team have won the 2024 Morocco Desert Challenge in the overall SSV classification.
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Mitchel van den Brink and navigator Bart van Heun from the Eurol Rally Sport team have won the 2024 Morocco Desert Challenge in the overall SSV classification.
Eurol is proud to announce that we are the new lubricant partner of rally talent Yannick Vrielink. The 25-year-old racer, who clinched the champion title of the Dutch Toyot...
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