LORMAND Etienne FRA 12/10/1968 186 cm 94 kg

Vehicle

MODEL	MAKE
450 WRF	YAMAHA

RANKING

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Scratch	93	173	66	48	46	46	42	18	30	42	-	36	102	41
Stage	93	173	66	46	46	46	42	18	112	33	-	36	99	41	-	-
Overall	93	141	107	79	59	53	52	49	66	52	-	49	48	47	-	-

Etienne Lormand: “If we could manage something good…”

At the passage of Etienne Lormand, the Argentinean and Chilean spectators will have the impression of seeing twice the same thing. Indeed the man from Toulouse will be riding alongside his elder brother Thibaud. “We are exactly identical, except that he his probably thinner than I am”, explains Etienne. “We’re very close to each other, we do everything together”. Brothers, racing mates for 25 years and even colleagues. Indeed the two brothers, helped out by a third family member, the youngest of the three are managers of hotel resorts. The youngest would have liked to join them in South America but he is forced to look after the hotel while his two brothers will be dealing with the dunes. “It’s our first Dakar, we just want to finish together”, says Etienne. “But if we could manage something good, why not!” The experience of the two bikers plays in their favour. “Our father taught us how to ride bikes. We’ve been on bikes ever since the age of ten”. More recently, Etienne took part in several Gilles Lalay Classics, “the toughest race in the World”, he says. The second of the Lormand brothers almost made a living out of bikes. Finally he went for hotels, riding bikes for leisure. “I said to myself that I would look stupid on the day I had to stop riding if I didn’t have anything else to do after”. To his eyes, the course of the Dakar looks “demanding and superb. It’s exactly for those reasons that we registered”. And in his conquest of Buenos Aires, Etienne will have another ally. He will carry around the neck a St Christopher medal, saint patron of voyagers and drivers.

Dakar start photos on line: www.maindruphoto.com

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