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may 19, 2016 - Honda Racing

Kevin Benavides to ride for Team HRC in the Merzouga Rally

Team HRC welcomes young Argentine talent #kevinbenavides who joins the ranks of the official #hondaracing Corporation team and is set to participate in the #merzouga Rally, which gets underway in Morocco next week.

This won’t be the first time that Team HRC and #honda Motor Argentina have collaborated; just last October the official #hondaracing Corporation rally team brought in rookie #kevinbenavides for the OiLibya Morocco Rally, which eventually saw the newcomer post an extraordinary fourth overall position. The gifted rider, discovered by #honda Motor Argentina, went on to become top rookie in the Rally Dakar 2016 several months later.

On this occasion, #kevinbenavides, who recently signed up as an official HRC team member, returns to Africa to take part in the Afriquia #merzouga Rally – the first of the Dakar Series – alongside fellow Team HRC rider Ricky Brabec.

Benavides’ participation with Team HRC will not be limited to the rally held in the Moroccan desert, but will be followed by an appearance in the Sardegna Rally Race, the tricky third race of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship, which is sure to put the young Argentinean’s navigational skills to the test.

The honours list of #kevinbenavides includes over 300 races, mainly in #enduro, which culminated with his fourth gold medal in the ISDE San Juan in 2014, the pinnacle of the rider’s career in the discipline.

The rider’s brief rally history so far, has featured a 2015 participation in the Desafío Ruta 40; a fast-paced debut which in spite of ending with an accident, was enough to convince Team HRC to allow him to compete in the final round of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship of the same year – the OiLibya Morocco Rally. After a highly promising Dakar 2016, which confirmed his status as a rally rider, Benavides is now set to take part in the forthcoming South American rallies as part of #honda Argentina’s competition structure, the MEC Team.

Federico Vahle, #honda Motor de Argentina Sales Senior Manager for Automobile, Motorcycle & PP Division comments: “for the second time, we have the honour to announce that an Argentine rider, currently member of the HSA Rally Team, has signed a contract with HRC to compete in some of the races of the FIM calendar. One of our main goals is to discover and train South American young riders who can in the future join an elite team such as our HRC Rally Team of today. In addition, this also allows us to have a great synergy between both teams to achieve their common goal: to get #honda onto the podium”.

More information on press release.

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