Pierre Cherpin suffered a serious injury when he fell from his bike during the seventh stage of the Dakar Rally and he tragically has died.
The 2021 Dakar Rally saw a tragic moment when announcers stated that Pierre Cherpin, a french motorcycle rider who had participated in the rally, died from his injuries that he sustained when he fell from his bike. In a release put out on the official Twitter handle of the Dakar Rally, it said, "During his transfer by medical plane, Pierre Cherpin died on Jan 14th from injuries caused by his fall during the 7th stage.The Dakar caravan would like to extend its sincere condolences to his family, relatives and friends."
Currently, in the Dakar Rally 2021, Monster Energy Honda Team 2021 is dominating with Ricky Brabec, Joan Barreda Bort, and Kevin Benavides securing the top three positions. Kevin Benavides leads the overall rankings at the end of Stage 10 while his teammate, Ricky Brabec holds the second spot. Red Bull KTM Factory's Sam Sunderland stands third. With two stages remaining, the teams will now go to the Yanbu region in Saudi Arabia and Stage 11 will be the longest special with 511km.
The 2021 Dakar Rally will be hosted by Saudi Arabia for the second time, with support from the Saudi Automobile and Motorcycle Federation. The race has started and ended in Jeddah allowing the competitors to venture through the desert and alongside the Red Sea. The route includes one prologue stage and 12 normal stages, with one rest day in Ha'il on 9 January. The rally was originally intended to run through 2–3 additional countries, with Egypt and Jordan being the other candidates. However, due to travel and border restrictions implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the route stayed entirely within Saudi Arabian territory.
Dakar Rally history
The Dakar Rally is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Most events since the inception in 1978 were staged from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal, but due to security threats in Mauritania, which led to the cancellation of the 2008 rally, events from 2009 to 2019 were held in South America. The 2020 edition was held in Saudi Arabia. The rally is open to amateur and professional entries, amateurs typically making up about eighty percent of the participants.
The rally is an off-road endurance event. The terrain that the competitors traverse is much tougher than that used in conventional rallying and the vehicles used are typically true off-road vehicles and motorcycles, rather than modified on-road vehicles
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