N° 629 - TEAM TERRE ET DUNES
- GINESTA
- Georges Gabriel
- AND
- 03/01/1959
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- MONTANO PANAS
- Oscar
- ESP
- 02/05/1975
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 - DE JESUS GONCALVES
- Carlos manuel
- PRT
- 15/09/1981
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He doesn’t budge, Jordi Ginesta is Basque but lives in Andorra and is crazy about the Dakar (17 Dakar participations and “always in the T4 class”): “It is really worth it for the television cameras to film the trucks at night…it is an extraordinary show: the trucks that are turned over, the others that help to get them back on their wheels, the six or seven trucks that stop and all have a group think as to which direction to go…”
Jordi” loves the parallel Dakar”, that takes place at night, far from the other machines that he discovered on his first Dakar back in 1987. “I was a trained motorcycle mechanic and I had just finished my military service where I had spent my time driving the big trucks. It was a good way of combining the two experiences”. After a string of raids, the work became a “drug”, and Jordi Ginesta remembers the two Dakars he missed with horror as he was forced to watch on television. These absences don’t risk to be repeated any time soon “when you have 18 years of experience, you don’t have to wait very long for a team to call”. For 2009, like for the prior edition, it will be the Red Line team that will benefit from his services and that of his right hand man, Oscar Montano Panas (his co-driver for the past four years and who has 12 Dakars to his credit): “It is routine work, rapid assistance. Three cars for one T4. Three Mitsubishi cars including a old prototype of Luc Alphand”. Jordi will be professional as usual and curious: “After 17 years in Africa, I’m eager to discover new landscapes”.
