— Ben Grabham prepping for Dakar
KTM Australia’s King of the Desert Ben Grabham has already commenced the lead-in to his 2014 Dakar Rally effort, and this weekend he will face the starter for the sixth and final round of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship.
Fresh from a training camp in Spain involving multiple World Champion Marc Coma, HSE Motorex KTM Off-Road Team racer Grabham will now contest the OIlIBYA Moroccan Rally (October 12-19).
“I arrived in Morocco yesterday for some bike testing and set up after three days training on navigation,” said the 31-year-old Bathurst ace. “Now I understand why Coma is so good at rally racing. It was certainly tough but it was a priceless opportunity to hook up with someone of his calibre and just take in as much possible.”
Grabham is Australia’s most decorated current off-road racer, and his incredible recovery from the serious spinal injury he suffered early in 2012 is nearly complete – if his 2013 season has been anything to go by.
He began the year with a top-15 maiden finish in the world’s biggest off-road race, the Dakar Rally, then won the WA Forest Rally, the inaugural WA Desert Racing Tri-Series, and the E3 class in the Australian 4-Day Enduro championship at Harvey in WA.
