Dakar
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The 47th edition of the Dakar has set a date for the world's rally-raiders in Saudi Arabia from 3 to 17 January.

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00:00♪♪
00:06Hey, there.
00:08Nice to meet you.
00:09My name is Manuel Lucchese.
00:11I'm from Italy.
00:12This will be the sixth Dakar for me.
00:16Well, in these days, I question myself a lot
00:20on why I decided to come back.
00:22It's an introspective journey.
00:25You go through strange, weird, mystic adventures.
00:29It's like looking yourself in the mirror,
00:33but for real.
00:35♪♪
00:39It's the start of the unknown for us,
00:42and it will be like this every day.
00:45I think for someone that has never done Dakar,
00:48it gives you an incredible strength.
00:51This is more of a race with yourself
00:55rather than other competitors.
00:58Is it Dakar that has become tougher,
01:02or is it the fact that I'm not anymore 20 years old?
01:10I went from, you know, joy, adrenaline,
01:13fear when I crashed,
01:15and I thought I was gonna call the helicopter,
01:18where I was like, I can't give up.
01:21I have never given up in my life, you know?
01:24I need to find the strength inside myself.
01:30I barely can move my muscles, my arms.
01:34I can't even close my fingers.
01:38I was doubting.
01:40For me, it's a race against my limits
01:43and proving myself that I'm a real man.
01:49I was dead.
01:52The race is much tougher.
01:54Every stage, almost the toughest stage I've ever done in Dakar.
01:58Like, for example, we need to stand up on the bike
02:01almost the whole stage.
02:03So imagine, over 400 kilometers,
02:06standing up on the bike and almost never sitting down.
02:11One of the challenges, of the many challenges
02:14that Dakar brings is the financial side
02:17to organize everything.
02:19Basically, I am bold.
02:21Even if I don't have a lot of money,
02:24I have a lot of courage.
02:26I have a lot of confidence.
02:28I have a lot of confidence in myself.
02:30I have a lot of confidence in my team.
02:32I have a lot of confidence in myself.
02:34I have a lot of confidence in my team.
02:37Basically, I am bold.
02:39Even though you see me with hair now,
02:42my sponsor does hair, but not implants.
02:48Basically, it's a membrane where they put real hair
02:52and then they glue it on your head.
02:55The cool thing, also, about this sponsor
02:57is that if I get tired, I can change my look.
03:01My new look. Now I'm ready.
03:03I'm more arrogant than ever.
03:08DAKAR
03:12The feeling you get when you finish Dakar
03:15by yourself in the original bi-motor
03:18is completely different from finishing with service.
03:22We already changed the air filter.
03:25I removed the tanks to check everything.
03:28Then I'm changing the oil filter, the engine oil.
03:33It doesn't taste as good as when you know
03:35you had to rely only on yourself.
03:38So everything, every error, every mistake,
03:41you have to blame only yourself.
03:44So this is why I'll always race Malamoto.
03:51I have no clue what day it is of the week.
03:54I have no idea about anything.
03:57I think this is one of the biggest pleasures
04:00because you basically are in a completely different world
04:06and all the rest is outside and you don't worry about it.
04:09You have no idea.
04:10The only thing you think when you go to bed
04:14is about you and the unknown.
04:17It's healing for me.
04:20Another day. We made it in the day.