X-RAID

H.M.

• Hugo Magalhaes is at the other end of the spectrum. He’s been a professional co-driver in stage rallies, including WRC, for the last 18 years.
• Before that he was a professional footballer, and sport has always played a big part of his life. That’s how he met Pedro. They live in the same town and are in the same cycling group.
• Although Hugo has been involved in motorsport almost all his life and Pedro is a relative newcomer, the thing they have in common is that they are both Dakar rookies.
• Even before Pedro contacted him, Hugo had decided it was time for a change and had already started learning the ‘black art’ of rally raid road book navigation. Hugo thinks that in rally raid the navigator is more important than in stage rallies, while stage rallies are scarier. Though he also says that rally raid can be scary too ‘cos you never know what’s on the other side of the dune!’