Barring a miracle, Christine GZ should wait till 2026 for her subsequent Dakar Rally. On Tuesday, she introduced that resulting from a scarcity of funding, she won’t be able to race the 2025 version as she had hoped.
“I’d like to say we’re READY FOR @dakarrally,” started GZ’s publish, “however sadly… we didn’t make it. We tried all of it, however couldn’t discover the funds….”
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 Workforce, she completed thirteenth within the SSV class after hanging throughout 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 Levels #10 and #11. Nonetheless, she ended the race with a finest day by day end of tenth.
Outdoors 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-Vans. Scheduled for 3–17 January, it will likely be his thirteenth Dakar.
