Sponzorstvo "Starikovich-Heskes Team" na Dakaru 2017
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How meeting with the Nasser Al-Attiyah has brought the team to The Dakar 2017
It may be considered that the Autolife team was born when Roman Starikovich met Nasser Al-Attiyah, the legend of the Dakar rally, during the clay target shooting world championship that took place in Cyprus in 2015. It was Nasser, who inspired Roman to participate in the competition, and in August 2015, the Autolife pilot started gearing up for the race very actively. At this time, Desert Warrior rally car was ordered, which the team members call "Bumblebee".
Some time later, a real luck favored the team: Nasser introduced Roman to Annie Seel, one of the most famous women in motorcycle sport history, who participated in 7 Dakar rallies. All together, they went to Morocco for training where they met Bert Heskes, the Autolife team co-pilot-to-be.
After completing the team, they continued preparing for the race more intensively and participated in several local races in Cyprus. "Starikovich-Heskes Team" won three times, but during the competition in Famagusta, the car turned upside down and the team was disqualified.
When commenting on this, Bert Heskes was rather brief: "I guess we needed to turn upside down at least once before the Dakar, just to know what it feels like".
The team’s pilot, Roman Starikovich, is an experienced racer with more than 60,000 off road kilometers in Europe, Africa, and Australia under his belt.
Roman Starikovich
BORN23 October 1973, Smolensk, USSR
PROFESSIONCEO Orpheus Group
OFF ROAD EXPERIENCECross African Expedition Port Said 2008
Trans African Expedition Alexandria 2009
Transmediterranean Expedition 2010
Australian Round Expedition 2011
East Safari Rally 2016
Palmtree Rally 2016
The co-pilot, Bert Heskes, has already participated in the Dakar rally in 2016.
The team will race on the Desert Warrior car, created by Rally Raid, the British company, based on Land Rover jeep running gear.
Bert Heskes
BORN21 June 1962, Amsterdam, Netherlands
PROFESSIONInterim Manager
OFF ROAD EXPERIENCEExpedition style off road travel since 1998
Dutch National Championships T1.1 and T1.2
German Baja 300
Libya Rally (5th overall)
Dakar support in 2007
Dakar co-pilot 2016