Despres relishes fourth Dakar success

STAGE 14 : PISCO – LIMA Road connection: 134 km – Special Stage: 29 km – Road connection: 120 km – Total 283 km The Dakar 2012 is over. Cyril Despres (KTM) is the new champion and takes the victory in front of Marc Coma (KTM) who´s luck left him alone and Helder Rodrigues (Yamaha) that confirmed his high potential. Only 97 riders arrive to Lima out of the 178 that took the start in Argentina. In quads, they are only 11 that saw the checkered flag in the Peruvian Capital. A big round of applause to all men and women that go all the way to make their dreams come true in spite of the pain, fear, doubt and tiredness. For Cyril Despres, the Dakar was the hardest of his career. “Today I won and it´s just amazing! It is definitely the hardest Dakar I’ve been to. It was not only physically demanding, and also mentally. To make yourself questions every morning and to battle, it was hard in my head. It is not like a 42 kilometers marathon, the Dakar is a race that you must take the start of a challenge every morning! This victory is the victory for which I have fought the most in all rally races I’ve been to. All victories are beautiful, but I must say that this one is even sweeter because it was difficult until the end.”