Piotr Beaupre to run first Dakar Rally since 2015

A decade after his final Dakar Rally, Piotr Beaupre will as soon as once more be at the beginning. He plans to enter the 2025 race in Saudi Arabia, competing within the SSV class with DUUST Rally Crew offering help.

The Pole has not too long ago been in Morocco, driving a Can-Am Maverick with DUUST co-owner Jacek Czachor as his navigator as a part of the group’s Rally Coaching Heart and Morocco Coaching Camp. DUUST is primarily a motorbike group however affords coaching and help for SSV drivers.

Beaupre beforehand raced the Dakar Rally when it ran by means of South America from 2012 to 2015, driving a BMW X5 below the Poland Nationwide Crew (2012 and 2013) and NeoRaid Rally Crew (2014 and 2015) banners. He completed fifty-second in his début earlier than enhancing to thirty-seventh the next 12 months. After retiring from the 2014 version, he rebounded with a career-best thirty-third in 2015.

The NeoRaid Rally Crew identify stemmed from his firm Neo Power Group, which he based in 2004. Beaupre initially started his entrepreneurial profession in advertising earlier than increasing to different fields like advertising and inexperienced power. He helped co-found Name Heart Poland, the most important name centre operator in Central Europe, in 1997 adopted by the multinational EBS SA procuring centre chain. Outdoors of Neo Power, he additionally created wind farm developer EcoWind and agricultural agency Fundusz Areał.

Outdoors of enterprise, Beaupre has been taken with off-road racing sicne his youth, initially creating an curiosity in Land Rovers after watching the Camel Trophy. He raced a Ford MUTT and Mitsubishi Pajero within the Polish Cross-Nation Rally Championship throughout the Nineteen Nineties earlier than increasing to rallies elsewhere in Europe similar to Slovakia and Berlin. Beaupre has additionally competed in races just like the Baja Aragón, Italian Baja, and Baja Portalegre 500, all at the moment a part of the FIA World and European Baja Cups, in a Bowler Wildcat.

Apart from the Dakar, his marathon rally expertise consists of the Silk Approach Rally in Russia throughout the early 2010s. He completed twenty-eighth within the first race in his Bowler in 2011 earlier than switching to the BMW. His newest SWR in 2016 ended with a sixteenth.

The 2025 Dakar Rally, now in Saudi Arabia, is scheduled for 3–17 January.