
For the second time this year Monster Energy Honda Team’s Kevin Benavides excelled on South American sand and soil as the Argentine powered through a fast and tricky Atacama Rally in Chile to clinch victory in the third round of the FIM Cross Country Rallies World Championship.
The 2018 Dakar runner-up showed his acumen through the desert setting to toast a significant result for the factory HRC crew, and with one eye on the testing and set-up work towards the 2019 Dakar spectacle. He blasted through the last timing gate in first position for three of the five stages.