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• Car racing is a family business in the Schröder family! The father, Jürgen, has been racing the Dakar roads since 2009. He started as Alfie Cox's co-driver, before becoming a driver. He gave his passion to his sons Daniel and Maximilian, who also became competitors.
• Daniel completed the rally twice on a bike in South America and came back home with two finisher's medals (51^st in 2011, 20^th in 2012). Then, he gained experience in co-driving alongside his father in 2015, 2016 and 2019. The German took the driver seat in 2022, coming in as a late replacement for Jürgen, who was forced to pull out with a shoulder injury. And despite the fact that he hadn't gotten behind the wheel of a rally car in almost two years, he brought his Nissan Navara VK50 home in a creditable 36^th
• After doing even better in 2023 (28^th), Daniel decided it was time to pass a step. He felt that being in T1 was no longer enough to satisfy his competition needs: the 2025 Dakar will be his first in T1+. He aims to finish in the Top 15 with Henry Carl Kohne, a South African co-driver he met during the rally in 2022. They will compete with a Volkswagen Amarok prepared by WCT.