N° 072 - TEAM VICKING.NL
- SNIJDERS
- Marcel
- NLD
- 06/02/1967
- 187 cm
- 80 kg
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| MODEL |
MAKE |
| 450 CRF X |
HONDA |
 |
| |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
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| Scratch |
78
|
82
|
113
|
86
|
81
|
61
|
49
|
81
|
80
|
58
|
-
|
56
|
63
|
73
|
| Stage |
78
|
82
|
113
|
83
|
81
|
61
|
49
|
81
|
74
|
46
|
-
|
55
|
63
|
73
|
-
|
-
|
| Overall |
78
|
76
|
83
|
74
|
69
|
65
|
59
|
60
|
61
|
51
|
-
|
53
|
51
|
50
|
-
|
-
|
Marcel Snijders : «I never give up»
Marcel Snijders shares the incredible finish of his previous Dakar as if nothing happened. “Did I make it to the end of the race? Oh yes, but on the day before the finish I crashed and was unconscious for 15 minutes. When I woke up, another competitor was calling for the helicopter. I injured my shoulder. I told them to go and I got back on my motorcycle and rode 170 kms. At the finish line on the beach, the sand was too soft and I fell again. I hurt myself again, but I got up. I had some physical problems for a month but I finished the race!”
To tell the truth, the Dutch locksmith doesn’t see anything exceptional about his extreme combativeness. “When I start something, I never give up. We put in a tremendous amount of effort and not just financial to participate on the Dakar. When you are there, you have to see it to the end. You have to be a bit crazy to do this race on a motorcycle.”
When you listen to him, you can take Marcel Snijders for a daredevil. He doesn’t, he just knows what he wants. Before setting off on his third Dakar he has set a limit for himself: “It’s important to ride at 70% of top speed, no more.” Once again, this is experience talking. “During the very first stage of my first Dakar I ran flat out and fell. I badly injured myself…I told myself I had to slow down”. Here is a competitor who doesn’t hold back. His new personal objective. “To finish in the top 50.”
Dakar start photos on line: www.maindruphoto.com