5/13/2023 0 Comments Race to dakar charley boormanHe trained us before so I approached him then and asked him what he thought. It went from there, Simon had done the Dakar a load of times. I told him that I fancied doing the Dakar and he said “oh, I do all the entries”. I met him at a Moto GP race in Valencia, we all got drunk together. We came back (from the trip) and I met a guy called Chris Evans, not the DJ, and he does all the entries for the Dakar. Ewan and I’d be riding along on these dirt gravel roads and saying “Oh, we’re having a Dakar moment here”. I met Simon Pavey when we were training for Long Way Round and he’d just come back from the Dakar Rally. It’d always sort of sat in the back of my mind. In Ireland it’s quite big, more like it is in France or Spain. In Britain, the Dakar’s not big, no-one really watches it. Where did the idea of ‘Race to Dakar’ come from?ĭakar was something I’d always watched in Ireland. For Charley things changed quickly and new opportunities presented themselves, including the incredible Dakar Rally. At this point LWR had gone live and had immense success. Following the first part, we pick up following the end of the Long Way Round saga. Welcome to part two of our Charley Boorman interview.
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