N° 091 - TEAM YAMAHA PORTUGAL
- ROSA
- Joao
- PRT
- 29/05/1967
- 188 cm
- 88 kg
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João Rosa: “Mainly be cautious”
The story started in 1993: João Rosa won the Portuguese Enduro Championship and immediately decided to enrol in the 2004 Dakar. But his federation for a question of regulation suspended his licence for 6 months. The meeting was set back. He indeed had to wait fourteen years to have another opportunity to register. The joy of taking off in front of his home crowd sadly turned sour when the rally was cancelled in 2008. Joao knows that time has come and he is ready to take on the race that looked like an impossible dream. “It’s a dream that I’ve had for a long time but it was only recently when I came back to live and work in Lisbon that I was able to find the connections to register”. Used to dealing with all types of terrain, Joao doesn’t want to get over excited and announces his objectives by stages: “When you do the Dakar for the first time, you mainly try to finish. But if I can enter the Top 20 it would be perfect. In the same way, if I can win the 450cc class it would be an achievement. But I mainly want to be cautious”. The many races in which he took part have calmed his temperament. Joao has known glory and the disappointment of breaking a leg during the Six Hours of Mende in 1988 when Peterhansel flew to victory that year. He stopped his biker’s career after having been a professional rider for eight years, before returning to two-wheels in 2004. This first Dakar is a new great challenge for the 40-year-old rookie, still as passionate for bikes as when he was 15 and riding with his idol, Portugal’s Paulo Marques.
Dakar start photos on line: www.maindruphoto.com