RED-LINED

 Aliyyah Koloc started writing her own adventure in the Dakar last year, following the tracks laid by her father Martin since the 1990s, first aboard a truck and then with the technological innovations of his team Buggyra. From a very young age, Aliyyah and her twin sister Yasmeen (who was also due to participate last year before she had to withdraw with a wrist injury) have witnessed their father’s success in the world of motorsport but their first inspiration was tennis. Aliyyah started at 4 years old, with the ambition to become a professional player, until a knee injury set her on a different track. After she attended winter tests in the beginning of 2019, she's picked up racing, in all types of vehicles (trucks, karts, Formula 4, Nascar…). She’s learned the ropes, set a couple of truck speed records and at 18 years old, she survived the traps of the world’s greatest rallye at the beginning of 2023, all the way to the finish in the T3 light prototype category. A polyglot (English, French, Creole, some Czech and Spanish as well as “very basic Mandarin”) used to traveling around the world, she’s picked the South African Rally Raid Championship as her playground this year. And now she returns to the Dakar with a Red-Lined Revo (T1) she’ll drive alongside Sébastien Delaunay. A staple of the Dakar since his first run in the desert in 2009, the French co-pilot almost didn’t participate in 2024 due to “health issues”. He’s recovered and after five years alongside Erik van Loon, he will share his wisdom and experience with the young Koloc.