At the last minute, the Belgium-based team Overdrive has successfully enlisted
the services of one of cross-country rallying's most prominent drivers for next
January's Dakar. Spain's Nani Roma and his French co-driver Gilles Picard have
chosen to contest the event in a Nissan Navara prepared by the Villers-le- Bouillet based outfit.
The association means that Overdrive will have the pleasure of working with a former winner of the world's most famous rally-raid event: "We are obviously very flattered that the Spanish champion has agreed to put his confidence in us," confirms Fortin. "Our team was founded in September 2006 and here we are today with one of the discipline's best drivers about to compete in the Dakar in a vehicle prepared and run by Overdrive."
There was clearly insufficient time, however, for Roma and Picard to test drive the pick-up.