Martin Benko, together with Marek Sýkora, the only Slovak crew competing in the Rallye du Maroc 2025, successfully completed the opening Prologue of the competition.
A nineteen-kilometer-long prologue plus a sixty-four-kilometer crossing kicked off this year’s Rallye du Maroc. As part of the Prologue, the competitors completed an initial test of the competition, which also determines the starting order for the competition. Slovaks Martin Benko and co-driver Marek Sýkor finished in twentieth place in the Challenger category, which is not a bad position at all to begin with. It should also be taken into account that Martin entered the aforementioned category only this year and his rivals include many world-famous drivers who have much more experience with competitions than the Rallye du Maroc.
“I am extremely satisfied. The placement is not bad at all. Our goal is simply to reach the finish line of the competition, complete the entire competition and gain as much experience as possible. Especially in my case, Marek has experience to share and that is exactly what is happening. He is an excellent co-driver, not only in terms of navigation, but he can also slow me down or give me a boost if necessary. Morocco is great, the track was very nice, although it was short, but that is usually how the Prologue is. Tomorrow we have the first “hard” stage and that will be a different story. But as I said, the priority for us is to reach the finish line and we will try to adapt to that. I believe that we will do well,” assessed Prologue Martin Benko.
As Martin already told us, tomorrow all participants of the Rallye du Maroc 2025 will face the first stage, which will go from the city of Fez to the city of Erfoud. As part of it, the competitors must complete a total of two hundred and ninety-eight kilometers of timed sections, as well as four hundred and eighty-one passing sections, so in total they will complete a nearly seven hundred and eighty kilometers long and quite strenuous stage. Of course, we will inform you again about how they did on it.