
Monster Energy HRC continue to roam the corners of South America at speed and racked-up another competition accolade last week with Paulo Gonçalves celebrating success in the Baja Inka Paracas 1000 and Yamaha’s Adrien Van Beveren filling the second step of the podium ahead of another HRC athlete, Desafio Ruta 40 winner Kevin Benavides.
The four-day 1000km trek through Peru and across large expanses of desert terrain and dunes was an important test event with a view towards the 2018 Dakar Rally; now just over three months away. After the heat of racing mileage in Argentina, Nevada and Chile, HRC elected to use the (mostly) sandy element of the Baja Inka Paracas 1000 to further work on the CRF450 Rally and their navigation skills and found willing participants in Gonçalves, Benavides and Michael Metge.