Dakar Legends - Martine De Cortanze (2/3) - #Dakar2025 - Vidéo Dailymotion

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00:001979, Africa, a real revelation.

00:10For this first stage on African soil, we started on a tarmac road, so it was pretty fast.

00:18And then suddenly we turned left and it was pure desert.

00:23Nothing but desert.

00:25The desert, the desert, the desert and the sand.

00:29And all of a sudden I felt incredibly good.

00:34I felt like I was at home.

00:36I thought it's amazing, marvellous, magnificent, sublime.

00:40I kept going and my racing instincts from Enduro soon kicked in.

00:45It was extraordinary.

00:48I got to the end of the stage and I couldn't believe it.

00:56OK, the bike's working very well for the time being.

00:59I'm looking after it.

01:01I've been given detailed instructions on how to take care of the engine and the bike.

01:05And I hope to go all the way.

01:12Every day there were refuelling trucks posted along the stage.

01:16One, two or three stops, depending on how long it was.

01:21So you definitely didn't want to miss the truck.

01:24It happened to me once, so I had to go begging for fuel.

01:28I did it several times in order to finish the stage.

01:32And I was so good at begging that I finished the stage with practically a full tank of petrol.

01:37Because everyone kept giving me fuel.

01:49We had two rest days in Gao.

01:52So we were able to make some repairs.

01:55And I made the most of it to do some laundry in the river Niger.

02:03Laundry on the rest day, Martine?

02:06A domestic goddess never loses her touch.

02:09I've got no choice.

02:11This is the only way to wash our clothes and we haven't got enough for three weeks.

02:17We're all in this battle together, so everyone to the river.

02:29For the bikers it was a nightmare.

02:32I was part of Team Honda and we had a DC3.

02:36When the plane was there it was great.

02:39We were lucky.

02:41But when it wasn't, it was a different story.

02:44Provisions hadn't been planned for us.

02:46So at times there were no food.

02:48We had nothing to eat.

02:53We had a can of water but a lot of us put fuel in it instead.

02:57Because it was more important to have fuel than water.

03:00I remember one stage starting in Gao.

03:03And we had around 900km to cover.

03:07And the three of us riding for Honda set off with a pack of biscuits and a tin of sardines each.

03:12The conditions were really, really, very, very hard.

Dakar Legends - Martine De Cortanze (2/3) - #Dakar2025

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