The Portuguese driver Elisabete Jacinto and the Bio-Ritmo® team held today in Fez the administrative and technical checks of the Rallye Oilibya du Maroc which will start tomorrow, with a Super Special stage composed by 12 timed kilometers, and will end on October 10th in Erfoud, Morocco.
The Portuguese have fulfilled the usual checks on all the documentation and technical requirements of the vehicles, which were followed by some delays unrelated to the team: “Usually the checks are carried out quickly and quietly. However, today we lived the slowest checks that I can remember. There were endless lines of people waiting for their turn. All of this happened because the Internet registration system did not work, making the process very slow here. After, there was a problem with the installation of the new Iritrack model on our truck that took forever to be ready. With all of this we skipped lunch which made everything more difficult”, said Elisabete Jacinto, who is already in position to start the race and compete for six days in this great African marathon, which will be held in some of the most inhospitable and desertified landscapes in the world.
This edition of the Rallye du Maroc will be a real challenge for the Bio-Ritmo® team, as they will be competing against excellent teams, whose high budgets allow them to equip the trucks making them very effective and well prepared vehicles. Given this scenario, Elisabete Jacinto believes that the reliability, consistency and the team spirit will be the great assets to achieve the objectives: “Today is a day of great enthusiasm and expectation. It’s the day when we look at the other trucks and let ourselves be impressed by what we see. Based on this observation we try to predict the future and make guesses about the classification. On our part we are ready to give the maximum and we will fight for a good result. I hope that luck is on our side” said the Portuguese driver.
The first round of this 18th Rally Oilibya du Maroc will be held tomorrow. A super special stage made of 12 kilometer, held around Fez, will be on the day’s agenda and its main objective is to establish the starting sequence for the first stage of this event.