- 6-time Dakar Rally winner relies on lubricants from RAVENOL
- Sustainability as an essential component of the new cooperation
- RAVENOL Eco Racing products during the desert endurance test
Werther / trebur-astheim. The next Dakar highlight may be coming. The X-raid team and RAVENOL for the first time, they compete together in an extremely difficult desert rally. The German lubricant expert and six-time Dakar winner agreed on long-term technical cooperation. X-raid will race at the 2024 Dakar Rally with three MINI John Cooper Works Rally Plus and three X-raid 1000R Turbo side-by-side. First of all, reliability and durability are the key to success in the marathon rally.
The successfully completed races of the FIA World Rally Raid Championship (W2RC), the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Bajas and the European Cup for Cross-Country Bajas, an exciting season is coming to an end. With the highlight-Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia-The X-raid team will start the new W2RC 2024 season in January.
For over 20 years, the x-raid team has been developing, building and using rally cars in sports across the country. The hessian team has already won the overall victory at the legendary Dakar Rally six times. Among the successful drivers were famous drivers such as Frenchman Stefan Peterhansel (previous record winner of the Dakar Rally, 14x) or Spaniard Carlos "El Matador" Sainz (a total of three Dakar Rally victories).
Since last year, The X-raid team has been relying on biofuel HVO for refueling racing cars and wants to further expand its environmental commitment in the coming years. Oil specialist RAVENOL & nbsp; advises X-raid on various topics, such as the use of modern fuels and lubricants. In addition,RAVENOL s new eco racing products are subject to extensive endurance testing during Desert use.
Paul Becher (CEO RAVENOL): "X-raid is the absolute best team in marathon rallies, having successfully made its way over the past 20 years. I also see parallels with us, our beginnings in motorsport, constant further development in recent years, always with the aim of maximizing performance. I am glad that we will be able to invest in our corporate values and technologies and, crowned with sports success, we will follow a common path, or even better, we will carry on."
Sven Quandt (CEO X-raid): "All of us in the team are very much looking forward to working with RAVENOL. We are confident that in a strong partnership, we will "bring home" further successes on the world stages of the gathering. We were able to pre – use RAVENOL lubricants at various bajas and cross country events and test them intensively-our mechanics were able to gain a consistently positive experience."
Dimitri Barichnowski (Communications Manager & Brand Partnerships RAVENOL): "My team and I are very happy – the cooperation with x-raid once again emphasizes that we are a reliable supplier of high-quality motorsport. In addition to the expected performance increase due to high-end racing products, we have already developed partnership activation measures that should further strengthen the public perception of the two brands."
About Dakar Rally:
Perhaps there is no other rally race that involves such great challenges for Man and machine. Cars cover 900 kilometers per day on a wide variety of terrain. The desert rally was first held in 1978 and was held on the African continent until 2008. However, it had to be cancelled at short notice in 2008 due to terrorist warnings. Dakar Rally then moved to South America in 2009. Eleven years later, the promotion opened another new chapter and has been held in Saudi Arabia since 2020.
