Dakar 2015 Simon Pavey (AUS) interview

Описание: Dakar2015 Simon Pavey interview 17/1/2015 Tecnopolis Argentina

Directed and edited by Gaston Cabrera
Music mixed by Gaston Cabrera



Simon Pavey (born 4 April 1967 in Sydney, Australia) is a motorcycle enduro and off road racer, currently based in Wales.

Pavey started his racing career in Sydney in 1981 with a motorcross race in Appin and won his first race at the same circuit that year. He has since competed in numerous rally events worldwide including the Dakar Rally nine times, completing it six times (including his first attempt in 1998). He gained recognition when he first trained Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman in off-road motorcycle riding for the TV series Long Way Round and then trained Boorman again to race off-road and compete in the Dakar Rally in 2006 for the TV series Race to Dakar. During the event Boorman retired due to injury and Pavey went on to complete the race finishing in 86th position, his worst performance., and has high as 50th position in 1990.
In 2015, Pavey will attempt Dakar with his son Llewellyn. They will be the first father-son pair to attempt Dakar.

Pavey competed in the Transorientale Rally in 2008. The rally started in St Petersburg on 12 June and finished in Beijing on 28 June 2008. He placed 18th in the moto/quad division, with a final time of 53 hours, 51 minutes.

Pavey manages the BMW Motorrad off-road training facility in South Wales, where he teaches motorcyclists to ride off-road.

SP FiFTYONE Racing is a UK based rally racing team. Fronted by serial Dakar finisher and rally racing veteran Simon Pavey, for the 2015 edition of the Dakar Rally the team will return in a bigger way than ever before. The team is about being as professional as possible and delivering the public an insight and connection to the world's toughest off road race like no other team does.

On this website you will be able to find out all about the team, the various members, the bikes and follow the progress during pre race build up, through the event to the finish. As a privateer team our aim is purely for our riders to make the finish and tell a great story.

We're going to be producing a video series following us through our preparation so head over to the video area of the site and see how we're getting on, or check out one of the fantastic galleries.

For 2015 we are also selling some fantastic products that will arise from our Dakar campaign. We have created a fundraising page which can be accessed by clicking on the image to the right. On there you can read all about our story and purchase one of the fantastic perks, all the funds of which help to get us to the start of the toughest event on the planet.

fuente: http://www.simonpavey.com/

The Welshest of Australians returns to the Dakar. Simon Pavey, based in Ystradgynlais, Wales returns 17 years after starting and finishing his first rally back in 1998. After a one-year break waiting for his son Llewelyn, father Simon will this year be riding with Junior who needed to show how he could ride to finally take on the toughest rally in the world. Like a few before them, father and son will be on the start line of the Dakar. Both on KTMs, the goal will be to see the Pavey family proudly represented on the finish podium in Buenos Aires. What better way to celebrate his 10th Dakar then with his son at his side

fuente: http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2015/fr/pi...