Countdown to another Rally dos Sertões edition. On July 6th, Marcos Moraes, event organizer, and Eduardo Sachs, technical director of Dunas Race, ended the roadmap conference between Goiânia (GO) and Belo Horizonte (MG). As every year, the event will have great challenges and go through beautiful regions of the "Brazil off-road".
The first stage, to be played on August 24th, between Goiânia and Caldas Novas, state of Goias, will have 216 km, being 155 km of special stage. "It will be a day with many bumps, multiple points with ‘fesh fesh’ and high average speed", said Moraes.
In the following day, the competition will be between Catalaão and Caldas Novas (260 km, 201 km of special stage), and on the third day the Sertões reaches Minas Gerais state, leaving Catalão towards Paracatu (356 km, 206 km of special stage).
"The second day of competition will be quite technical with narrow, abrasive floor track, and cattle guard. But it will be a very good and very pleasant to navigation and drive", said Moraes. "The third day will be very similar to the second, but as it is an agricultural area and we will be in the "Serra do Facão" there will be many miles on asphalt with radar zone, but with the last 80 km of pure pleasure in driving", continued the event organizer.
The fourth stage will connect Paracatu to Sao Francisco and it is considered one of the most important of the dispute by the organization. It will be 585 km, with 364 km of special stage. "It will be a stage worthy of Sertões: Unbeatable and unforgettable. Constance, grit and determination are the attitudes to reach Sao Francisco," emphasized Moraes.
On the fifth day, the competitors will face the Marathon stage, where at the end of the dispute they can’t receive external mechanical assistance. After the conference, the course between Sao Francisco and Diamantina had a change in the route of the special stage. It will be 718 km and 335 km of special stage. "We made some logistical adjustments and we calibrate better the size of the challenge. But I guarantee, will be one of the best special stages of 2014 edition. It has a bit of everything from a cross country rally with locked stretches and mountain with trail", said Marcos Moraes.
In its penultimate day, the Sertões remains in Diamantina, letting go and coming up in the town. "There will be 213 km in total, 159 km of special stage at the Serra da Canastra," said Moraes.
On August 30th, it will be the 7th and final stage with the Sertões coming for the first time in Belo Horizonte (331 km in total, 125 km special). "The last stage is also very interesting, with big challenges to overcome. It would be a strategic day to keep the good results", added Moraes.
Entries for the Rally dos Sertões are closed, and soon, the entry list will be published with great competitors of national and international rally in the categories cars, motorcycles, quads, UTVs and trucks. Before leaving for the special stage, the competitors still compete at the prologue in Goiania on August 23rd, with the promotional start in the evening in the renovated International Goiania Racetrack.
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