Barring a miracle, Christine GZ must wait till 2026 for her subsequent Dakar Rally. On Tuesday, she introduced that as a consequence of a scarcity of funding, she will be unable to race the 2025 version as she had hoped.
“I might like to say we’re READY FOR @dakarrally,” started GZ’s put up, “however sadly… we didn’t make it. We tried all of it, however couldn’t discover the price range….”
GZ made her Dakar début in 2024 after years of competing within the Spanish Cross-Nation Rally Championship. Driving a Can-Am Maverick X3 for FN Velocity Staff, she completed thirteenth within the SSV class after hanging inside the prime fifteen for a lot of the rally earlier than late mechanical points hampered her progress within the remaining few days, together with a damaged entrance differential in Phases #10 and #11. Nonetheless, she ended the race with a greatest each day end of tenth.
Exterior of cross-country rally, she has competed in stage rally and Excessive E. GZ was concerned with the latter because the inaugural season in 2021, the place she completed ninth in factors, whereas her final begin was a 3rd on the first Hydro X Prix in 2023 for Carl Cox Motorsport earlier than changing into the sequence’ check driver.
Ricardo Torlaschi, who served as her navigator for the Dakar, will enter the 2025 race with TH-Vehicles. Scheduled for 3–17 January, will probably be his thirteenth Dakar.
