Fesh Fesh will discipline a model new Tatra truck for Tomáš Vrátný on the 2025 Dakar Rally. Dubbed the FF7, it was revealed at Colors of Ostrava over the weekend and can start racing in Poland throughout the summer time earlier than showing on the Rallye du Maroc in October.
Vrátný completed ninth within the Truck class at his most up-to-date Dakar in 2023, the place he raced a Tatra Jamal Evo I. It was his seventh begin and simply his second since 2022 after a five-year absence, together with his profession greatest being a fourteenth in 2015. He didn’t run the 2024 rally, although Fesh Fesh took half with a Tatra for Vaidotas Paškevičius (retired) and a Ford Cargo for Albert Llovera (seventeenth).
“We’re making ready a brand new racing truck for the subsequent Dakar Rally,” started Vrátný. “It’s an fully new technology of racing expertise. Many because of the blokes from the Fesh Fesh workforce for finishing it in time for this vital occasion. We selected to premiere it at Colors as we’re an Ostrava-based workforce, and this competition is without doubt one of the most important occasions within the metropolis and whole area.
“After the competition, we are going to proceed with intensive preparations. We have to check the truck, put together software program for the engine and transmission, regulate the suspension accurately, and way more. In August, we have now races in Poland, in October we are going to go to Morocco, and on 3 January 2025, we are going to begin the well-known Dakar Rally, which might be held once more in Saudi Arabia subsequent yr.”
Czech President Petr Pavel attended the competition and ‘blessed’ the truck by spraying champagne on it. The workforce additionally unveiled the Husqvarna 450 Rally that stunt rider Adam Peschel will race in his Dakar début.
The Rallye du Maroc is scheduled for six–11 October, whereas the 2025 Dakar Rally runs on 3–17 January. Vrátný gained a stage and completed third within the former’s 2023 version.
