The rider Ricky Brabec representing the Monster Energy Honda Team on his CRF450 RALLY factory machine, won for a second time this year 2024, since his triumph in the 2020—Dakar rally motorbike category’s championship opening round of FIM* World Rally-R This is the first time since 2021 that Honda had won Dakar Rally.

Team HRC - Dakar Rally 2024

In 2016, Ricky Brabec competed at the Dakar Rally for his first time on Team HRC (Monster Energy Honda team). With the overall lead in Stage 6 for this year’s edition, Brabec held on with steady riding thereafter to seal his victory by a margin of 10 min and half-an -hour as he got another Dakar title.

Third was Adrien Van Beveren (France, 33 years), and sixth was Jose Ignacio Cornejo (Chile, 29 years) guaranteed three top-10 places for Monster Energy Honda Team.

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Team HRC (current Monster Energy Honda Team) was the first Dakar Rally that Ricky Brabec rode in 2016. After setting the overall stage time on Stage 6 in this year’s event, Brabec kept his lead with defended riding for subsequent stages and winning by a margin of 10 min.53 s as his second Dakar win was accomplished.

Monster Energy Honda Team managed three top tens, with van Van Beveren (France – 32 years) in third position and Cornejo Flores in sixth place.

Ricky Brabec says that, “It is nice to start the new year with a win. Though it was not easy since both the course and competition were very hard.” Ross [Hero] and my team forced me to be always on the alert, not just for myself but everyone was keeping each other’s toes. It was an all-out war for everyone. I am really pleased we are all home and well. This would be a slightly differnet time as this one was more merited because it wasn’t easy. The gap was huge from the outset in 2020.

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In this case, I would say that me and Ross spent three of three days with a couple seconds difference. All of us had a close run. On the rally itself, ten minutes is not that much of a gap. I did two good days, got to chance on pulling a big push but also stage 1 was something what worried me due the fact that Ross started behind me with some time difference of about eighteen minutes and if he caught up it would be all over.

Stage 11 was tough but I managed to stay focused, reached the finish line without too much loss of time and that’s why I am pleased with it both personally and from a team perspective. That makes me happy for all of us, we did great work the two weeks. I can say that from now on, my lucky number will be 9.