Dakar Legends - Nicole Maitrot - #Dakar2024

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The fifth edition of the Dakar in Saudi Arabia promises to push man and machine harder than any of the previous ones.
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Transcript
00:00 Thierry Sabine, the creator of the Dakar, used to say, "The morale is in your plate
00:08 of food."
00:09 In 1979, for the first Dakar, the competitors had nothing, absolutely nothing to eat.
00:17 They were really left to their own devices.
00:19 I've heard some pretty incredible anecdotes about people who didn't eat for three days.
00:29 So in 1980, Thierry Sabine decided to put trucks from Africa tour, which was sponsoring
00:36 the Dakar.
00:37 So there were two trucks going from a stage to another, which sometimes arrived quite
00:44 late.
00:50 And we'd arrive and see this lorry and see if there was a tray.
00:55 There was a huge bowl.
00:57 It was a traditional couscous, and there was a man stirring, stirring this big bowl with
01:02 a big spoon, which reminded me of the obelisks and the magic potion.
01:09 Unfortunately, it wasn't the magic potion he was serving us.
01:15 The next morning, we weren't any faster after eating that.
01:27 It was an opportunity to get together.
01:30 It was an opportunity to talk.
01:32 So how did your stage go?
01:34 Do you have any news about anything that hasn't happened yet?
01:37 After a few days, everyone knew each other.
01:41 So we started to dare to go and talk to Jackie Ickx, to dare to go and talk to the French
01:47 singer Michel Sardou, because we were all on equal terms during the Dakar.
01:52 So that was it.
01:54 Tongues were loosened.
01:55 We could talk to people who impressed us.
01:57 But then it was a sort of society that came together.
02:01 I'm not saying the food was good.
02:03 We ate tinned food.
02:05 But when we arrived in black Africa and we were in a village, they went to buy bread
02:10 at the village bakery.
02:12 And this bread is slightly greenish African steppe, very heavy.
02:16 And I still have the taste in my mouth.
02:19 It's magnificent.
02:22 Thank you.
02:33 Thank you.
02:36 (whooshing)