
They say a man can lose his mind in the desert. Among the heat and exertion and with the technique required to gun a factory CRF Rally through some of the trickiest and most technical rally conditions…then it takes something extreme not to lose much more. This week Paulo m and Kevin Benavides were among the protagonists of the first of five rounds in the 2017 FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship. The Portuguese Monster Energy Honda Rally star scored fourth position overall after five stages while the Argentine – winner of stage four and on the comeback trail after the arm and wrist injury that caused him to sit out this year’s Dakar - classified in seventh place.