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For the first time in history, a Jumillano will participate in the Dakar, the most famous and hardest rally event in the world.

This morning Antonio T rraga was fired in the plenary hall by the mayor of Jumilla, Juana Guardiola, and the Councilor for Sports, Jos Antonio Jim nez, who have described Jumilla's presence in this race "as a milestone for local sport.

" It does so as part of the Automotive 4 4 Competition team.

His work will be logistics, assistance to mechanics and complete the team organization system. They will travel to Barcelona on December 29 from where they will take a private charter flight expressly hired for the participants in the Dakar.

The 2021 Dakar takes place from January 3 to 15. Antonio T rraga has been participating for decades in different tests and routes related to 4x4, both in Spain and in North Africa and this call to take part in the Dakar is the culmination of a lifetime dedicated to the motor world. At the local level, he was part of the Leisure and Adventure Club and later he launched the Montesinos 4x4 Club, of which he is president, leading the organization of the different official outings of the Maroc Challenge that have been carried out from Jumilla in the last years, as well as the routes 'By land of wines' that are organized every year coinciding with the Gastronomic Days of the Wine Route. Wherever he goes, he leads the Jumilla wine and it will be no less so in the Dakar, to whose collaborators he will distribute wine provided by a winery. function { ;(, , {});}

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla