Adrien van Beveren secured his first podium at the Dakar this Friday. The Monster Energy Honda rider finished the race in third place, a position he confirmed with the fourth time in the 12th and final stage.
The Frenchman from Monster Energy Honda feels closer to the dream of becoming the Dakar champion, expressing his satisfaction with the podium on the event’s official website:
– After the last years and the difficulties I had, the crashes, all of that, overall, finally to be on the podium of the Dakar, it tastes really good. I’ve been fighting until the end. We’ve finished third, but we were in the fight. We are closer than ever to the dream. To step onto the podium is a step towards my dream of victory.