Paolo Lucci from Castiglion Fiorentino (rings a bell, doesn't it?) is the best Italian Rally-Raid driver.
Well, he is keen to point out with an embarrassed manner, let's say at most one of the, you always have to include Alessandro Botturi and Jacopo Cerutti in the ‘list’. The strongest at the Dakar these days, then, OK?

Yes, but the substance of what you want to say does not change. Paolo Lucci, a strong rider, is to all intents and purposes, a ‘Privatone’, one who basically, and first and foremost, has to provide for all aspects of his participation, so in addition to the sporting needs he also has the indispensable economic and logistical ‘issues’. And very carefully, because ‘that’, the Dakar, also depends on these.

But something shines at the end of the tunnel. A light? Yes, one... Honda. It's not official, for goodness sake, but it's a step forward that could, and would, be decisive. Paolino will race with a particular, very particular bike, to define it we had to ask Michele Berera, passionate manager of Honda RedMoto. Let's hear from both of them, about the Dakaran's ‘bad life’ and what's new on the horizon.