A decade after his final Dakar Rally, Piotr Beaupre will as soon as once more be at first. He plans to enter the 2025 race in Saudi Arabia, competing within the SSV class with DUUST Rally Crew offering assist.
The Pole has just lately been in Morocco, driving a Can-Am Maverick with DUUST co-owner Jacek Czachor as his navigator as a part of the workforce’s Rally Coaching Middle and Morocco Coaching Camp. DUUST is primarily a motorbike workforce however presents coaching and assist 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 beneath 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 yr. 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 Vitality Group, which he based in 2004. Beaupre initially started his entrepreneurial profession in advertising earlier than increasing to different fields like advertising and inexperienced vitality. He helped co-found Name Middle Poland, the biggest name centre operator in Central Europe, in 1997 adopted by the multinational EBS SA buying centre chain. Outdoors of Neo Vitality, he additionally created wind farm developer EcoWind and agricultural agency Fundusz Areał.
Outdoors of enterprise, Beaupre has been keen on 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 in the course of the Nineties earlier than increasing to rallies elsewhere in Europe equivalent to Slovakia and Berlin. Beaupre has additionally competed in races just like the Baja Aragón, Italian Baja, and Baja Portalegre 500, all at present a part of the FIA World and European Baja Cups, in a Bowler Wildcat.
In addition to the Dakar, his marathon rally expertise consists of the Silk Method Rally in Russia in the course of 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.
