Trial and enduro star Sandra Gómez is the latest addition to the Fantic Rally Crew, and can make her début on the Rallye du Maroc earlier than operating the 2025 Dakar Rally on a Fantic XEF 450 Rally.
Gómez is a two-time Spanish Girls’s Trial Champion who has additionally competed on the FIM Trial European and World Championships, and is a six-time winner of the Girls’s Trial des Nations for Spain. On the enduro aspect, she received the 2015 AMA Endurocross and 2016 FIM SuperEnduro World Championships on the ladies’s aspect. She additionally has three X Video games medals in Enduro X, consisting of a bronze every at Barcelona and Munich in 2013 and a silver in 2014, and was the primary girl to complete the Purple Bull Romaniacs within the Gold class in 2020.
Though a GasGas manufacturing facility rider in enduro and trials, Gómez raced a Husqvarna and KTM at her two Dakar Rally begins in 2022 and 2023. A longtime rally fan, the chance arose after coaching with assist from present RallyGP competitor Lorenzo Santolino. She completed fortieth in her Dakar début, whereas her 2023 race was minimize brief by mechanical points after 5 phases.
After the 2023 Dakar, she and Jorge Zaragoza received the inaugural FIM E-Xplorer World Cup for MIE Racing. She moved to INDE Racing for the 2024 season, who’s third within the standings after two rounds alongside Runar Sudmann.
Morocco will likely be her first World Rally-Raid Championship exterior of Dakar for the reason that 2022 Andalucía Rally, the place she completed eleventh in Rally2 and was runner-up within the FIM Girls’s Trophy.
An enduro powerhouse, Fantic incessantly employs riders from the self-discipline for his or her rally raid programme. Jeremy Miroir completed nineteenth in Rally2 on the newest Dakar in January forward of Jane Daniels (thirty-third) and Tommaso Montanari (seventy-eighth) in a three-bike effort. Tomás de Gavardo, who joined the group in August, was a nationwide enduro champion in Chile.
“I’m so excited to turn into a part of this huge household, and it is usually nice that Fantic continues to imagine in and assist the ladies’s class,” mentioned Gómez. “They’ve achieved incredible outcomes with Jane, which is an additional motivation for me to maintain up that good work. I’ve already had an opportunity to check the Fantic for the primary time, and I used to be pleasantly shocked; the bike feels very easy to experience. In fact, it’s new to me and I might want to adapt, however my first impression was very optimistic. I prefer it and I can’t wait to experience it within the desert to see what we will obtain. I’m trying ahead to getting again into motion on the rallies.”
In April, Fantic expanded their rally presence by creating the Fantic Rally Raid and Fantic Rally Xperience. The previous affords manufacturing facility assist for Fantic XEF 450 Rally house owners at W2RC occasions whereas the latter is targeted on newbie occasions.
“I’ve already had the possibility to see her in motion on our bike, and the primary impression was actually optimistic,” added Fantic enterprise growth supervisor Matilde Tomagnini. “She is quick and there may be a tremendous feeling, so I’m assured that collectively we’ll attain nice outcomes. Constructing on the success we now have achieved with Jane, we intention to substantiate our place on the high of the ladies’s class.”
The Rallye du Maroc will happen on 6–11 October, whereas the 2025 Dakar Rally runs 3–17 January.
