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Gunter Hinkelmann in his biggest Sertões challenge

Gunter Hinkelmann encara seu maior desafio no Sertões

Gunter Hinkelann starts this Saturday in Goiânia his eight edition of the Rally dos Sertões, the biggest off-road challenge in Brazil. For the American-born driver will be in the fastest category of the rally among the cars: the T1 FIA class. He will drive a X Rally Team-built Ford Ranger V8 4x4 alongside Fabio Pedroso.

“It is a new challenge for me and I am quite excited about it. We have a great structure here, great equipment and my job will be only to drive the car and to listen to Fabio’s instructions”, says Gunter, who had driven the car in two previous rounds of the Brazilian Cross Country Championship, clinching the second position in both of them.

His expectations go from learning more about the machinery and work with strategy. “This quite a piece of engineering: fast, reliable, tough. It raises the driving bar. Since it is the first time I race the Sertões with such a car, my expectations are to extract the maximum of the experience to come back even stronger in 2019”, he highlights.

The Sertões goes from Goiânia to Fortaleza in a seven-days and 3,600-km race.

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