Rally Dakar 2005

Jordi Arcarons. Team Manager Repsol KTM
Best results Date of birth: 6.6.1962Place of birth: Vic (Barcelona), SpainPlace of residence: Vic (Barcelona) Competition debut in Motocross1986: Spanish Enduro Champion over-125 ccGold Medal World Enduro Championship1987: Spanish Raid Champion 4-strokes1988: Spanish Enduro Champion over-125 ccSpanish Raid Champion 4-strokesGold Medal World Enduro ChampionshipWinner of the Paris-Dakar 500cc class1989: Spanish Enduro Champion 125ccSpanish Raid Champion 4-strokes1990: 2nd overall (3 stage victories) Raid des Pharaons7th overall (2 stage victories) Paris-Dakar1991: Overall winner Baja Aragón5th overall (2 stage victories) Paris-Dakar1992: Spanish Raid Champion3rd overall (1 stage victories) Rally Paris-Le Cap1993: 4th Rally TunisiaWinner of the Atlas Rally2nd Raid des Pharaons3rd overall (6 stage victories) Paris-Dakar1994: 3rd Rally TunisiaWinner of the Atlas Rally2nd overall (5 stage victories) Paris-Dakar1995: 3rd Rally Tunisia2nd Paris-Moscow-Beijing (5 stage victories)2nd overall (2 stage victories) Granada-Dakar1996: 2nd (3 stage victories) Granada-DakarWinner of the Master Rally (Paris-Moscow-Ulaan Bator)1997: Participation in the Dakar-Dakar (1 stage victory)3rd Master Rally (Paris-Samarkanda-Moscow)Winner of the Challenge Desert UAE Rally (Dubai)1998: 6th Paris-Dakar (1 stage victory)3rd Rally TunisiaParticipation in the Spanish Jet-ski Raid Championship4th Granada-Dakar (1 stage victory)Participation in the Paris-Dakar (1 stage Victory) 4th Rally of Egypt2001: 2nd Rally Paris-Dakar. (1 stage victory)7th Rally Paris-Dakar. (1 stage victory)Participation in the Paris-Dakar, car class, with a BMW X5  Speaking about Jordi Arcarons and speaking about the Dakar is almost the same thing. Jordi has raced the Dakar 16 times and if we add his performance as Team Manager of the Repsol KTM team last edition driving a T5 race assistance car, we could say that Arcarons has spent almost half of his life surrounded by dunes, desert and under the African sky. Born in Vic, in 1962, he debuted in competition at the age of 17 and he has never quitted it since then, neither during his time as a rider nor later as Manager of the Repsol KTM team. With an enviable sports career and experience gathered after more than twenty years competing, Arcarons had his first contact with Africa and the Dakar in 1985, when he took the victory of the 500cc class in the Paris-Dakar. His passion for this African race had just begun. Since then, Arcarons achieved and gathered titles in enduro races and raids, on a national and international level, fighting year after year to get on the highest step of the podium in the legendary Paris-Dakar event. The result of his perseverance: four times runner-up in the hardest race of the world and a total of 29 stage victories.The last time he was runner-up of the African race was in 2001, where he won one stage. The following year was his last participation in the Paris Dakar, finishing seventh, also winning one of the stages. On the podium of that edition he announced his retirement. One year later, in 2003, Arcarons went back to Africa but on a BMW X5. His participation in the Dakar car category was brief and finally Arcarons the rider and driver was gone, but back came Team Manager Arcarons with renewed excitement and energy, providing the Repsol KTM Team with the necessary balance, experience and knowledge to achieve the longed-for victory of a Spanish rider in the Dakar 2004.When Jordi Arcarons announced his retirement, he told the attending press people that the time had come to help young Spanish riders to win the African race. He kept his promise and two years later, weve been able to enjoy Nani Romas victory. Continuing with his new and brilliant task as Team Manager of the Repsol KTM Team. Aracarons aims are still the same as when he retired: putting my whole experience at the service of the youngest, and Im sure that they are going to win this hard African race more than once.