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Sandra Gómez: “This Dakar has melted, but he has had many beautiful nuances”

MADRID 27 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Spanish pilot Sandra Gómez (Fantic) acknowledges that the Dakar 2025 rally “has” melt “physically and mentally, although” has had many beautiful nuances “, with the 48 -hour stages and marathon,” the pure essence “of a ‘raid ‘In which you want to not be the only woman who competes in the motorcycle category.

“I liked it, it was more technical than others that I had done, so the kilometers were slow Technician, for me it is also better, “said Madrid in an interview with Europa Press before the 2024 champions gala of the Royal Spanish Motorcyclist Federation (RFME) at the headquarters of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE).

Cercedilla’s has “enjoyed” his third participation in the Dakar, although he also “suffers it”, since he has “his good side and his bad side.” “But I had a good time and I have seen myself well, I have seen myself in an improvement every day, more comfortable in the motorcycle, in the field, in speed, because at first it gives you more respect,” he celebrated.

“This Dakar, on my dark side of the head, was the ‘Top 40’. I’ve been ready, I finished 43 (in the general), but I have been making ‘tops 40’ different days. I stay with that, I think I can be higher, “he said about his result in this Dakar, the third in which he participates, after 62º position (2nd woman) in 2022 and to leave in the sixth stage in the 2023 edition.

The Madrid was the winner of the female category, something that generates “pride and sadness” because she was the only woman to compete. “That it is clear, that the trophy did not give me to be the only one, because you have to reach the goal. And I, that I am a competitive, because I did the same. You put the helmet and they are pilots, and I wanted to advance them The same.

“It is a more professional career, that is clear. The 20 uncles are completely dedicated to Dakar, not to motorcycling, to the Dakar. The others, until 50, I have seen in a group that train every day for that and Before I was in a group of fans.

“The Dakar is the career that most needs the mental part”

In addition, Sandra Gómez, world motorcycle world champion in 2024 and better in the world in Enduro last year, acknowledged that Dakar is a career that requires you maximum at the mental level. “The first week I was very alone and I was bored a bit, because you try to stay six hours of special concentrated, sometimes it is impossible,” he said.

“In fact, I was working with the psychologist from home and told me ‘Sometimes you have to let go, follow the kilometers, continue to confirm caps and everything, but you have to let go because six hours like this, 14 days, you don’t go To get there.

And this psychological work is essential for Madrid since 2016, “at a point that really needed it.” “Today, with nuances, but it helps me to meet me, namely what I want, to explode myself,” said mental work.

“The children with whom I train them, they wrote it to me: ‘Being hard is hard, remember.’ They are making you ball, you think you don’t advance, but no matter, everything progresses, “he said.

In addition, in this Dakar there was “tension” for the 48 -hour stage, without assistance from the mechanics for two days. “I had mounted and disassembled the motorcycle at home, but two days without mechanics, you have to go a little softer, that’s so,” he admitted.

“But to me, that I am very adventurous, the 48 hours caught my attention, my expectations were very high. But it is true that it was very hard, the dunes, the second day of the marathon stage I think it was the one that was the most It has cost the rally, for the stage itself, 200 kilometers of sand.

Gomez’s greatest fear was the ’empty quarter’. “It was shit,” he acknowledged with a laugh. “The first week I worried, but much more the last three days, Lorenzo (Santolino) was reassuring me. In my head, the dunes were like three times that really were, and it was not so much. But I mentioned that it was brutal , I had a good time, I am not very good in the dunes, because I do not train it, but I like it a lot, “he added.

And in those toughest or most resisting moments, the pilot is clear that it is “when you have to be the most objective, and more in the essential you have to think.” “And that is that we love motorcycles. When you’re shit, I thought, ‘Yes, but you’re on the motorcycle running the Dakar.’ It’s amazing. And suffering is a bit satisfaction. You enjoy and suffer at the same time “He thanked.

“The 48 -hour stage and marathon are the pure Dakar essence, our motorcycles are getting better, and we are increasingly prepared for that. It seemed good to me, and every year he will squeeze us more, but we also ask for more, “he concluded.

George Williams

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