After proclaiming herself champion of the world trial 14th time, the agenda of Laia Sanz She is still as busy as usual. She has yet to close the Enduro season and this weekend she is competing in the RX2e championship in Spa, but she is missing in the Rally of Morocco and her absence is due to a reason: he is preparing his next project for the Dakar… and it will not be on a motorcycle. And it is that the Catalan will make the leap to four wheels, a step that he had anticipated for a long time and that he has finally decided to take.
“It was a difficult decision, but I think it was the ideal time to make a change. You become more aware of the risk and, furthermore, the last two years have not been easy at all, “says Laia at a KH7 event in Barcelona. Of course, He still cannot determine if he will do it by car or on a ‘side by side’ because he does not have the matter closed. In any case, you already know what it is like to compete in both categories because you have done this before at the wheel of a Mini 4×4 in the Andalusia Rally and with a South Racing buggy in Baja Dubai.
As he says, the last two editions in which he did not reach the Dakar one hundred percent physically and in which the danger of racing it on a motorcycle with fatal accidents in Arabia was clear, have further prompted him to make the leap: “Probably not I have arrived at the Dakar as prepared as I would have liked and I have not enjoyed it as much. In the end I am not 20 years old and it is an ideal time to start making a change. I’m sure I’ll miss it, but there is a time to learn and experience new things that motivates me a lot. “
“Everything I do helps me”
For this reason, he will soon start thinking about cars when he competes in the electric modality of the World Rallycross or at the wheel of his Extreme E after finishing a fantastic season in motorcycles with his trial title, “a very difficult and beautiful objective at the same time. “which is” super proud to have achieved “, and to finalize the” Enduro World Championship that is at stake ” to “close a brutal season”. “All the things I do can help me,” says Laia. Your next challenge awaits. Another one.