News
The page comprises the latest news on the InstaForex Loprais Team rally life. You can learn more about the stages which InstaForex Loprais Team takes part in and keep abreast of the competition and current position of the team. Moreover, this section is planned to contain the racing schedule, maps and charts of the rally stages and resulting team position.
06.01.2017
Shortly after the start our hopes for a good result in the today's stage dissolved. We had to stop and the finding that the culprit was once again the pump seems almost incomprehensible. But it was a fact.
05.01.2017
The third stage is over. Nothing pleasant. We started from the 12th position, so we could expect a lot of dust and overtaking. We were quite successful in the first part of the measured section and we finished in 4th position.
04.01.2017
I'm glad today's stage is already behind us. It was an agony. Crazy heat, almost 50 C outsides and 80 C in the cabin. I'm still fighting with illness, so I turn up the heating a little bit. So unpleasant! However, the heat is with all of us.
02.01.2017
We have finished the first tough stage of the Dakar Rally. The speed trial measured only 39 km, but it was very narrow and broken. Moreover, the weather was incredibly hot, the truck was like a sauna.
01.01.2017
We are already counting down the seconds till the beginning of the Dakar Rally 2017. The weather is changing all the time. A few rainy days in 37 C heat caused lots of insects, such as mosquitoes and ants.
24.11.2016
InstaForex pilot Ales Loprais presented his crew and the new race truck Tatra Phoenix for the Rally Dakar 2017.
28.10.2016
What was nearly impossible has come true. Side by side with Martin Kolomy the Czech Dakar coalition will be defended at Dakar Rally 2017 by Ales Loprais.
08.01.2016
We spent the night at an altitude of 4000 meters above sea level, without the possibility of common communication.
05.01.2016
After two previous cancelled stages we are finaly in the race! The weather was fine and we could start into the first real special stage.
