Nhasi the Dakar ndizvo zvinozivikanwa nemunhu wese: nhangemutange ine bhajeti remadhora miriyoni, inoteverwa pasi rose nemamiriyoni evanhu, uye inopokana nevanovaka vatungamiri venyika. Asi zvakanga zvisina kudaro nguva dzose.
Pane imwe nguva iyo Dakar yakanga yakafanana ne "adventure for adventure, denho yedenha" . Sezvineiwo, zviitiko zviri mugenesis yaro hazvigone kuve chiratidzo chehuzivi uhwu.
Nyaya yeDakar yakatanga muna 1977, apo Thierry Sabine (mumufananidzo wakajeka), muvambi weDakar, akarasika pakati pegwenga reSahara panguva yemusangano. Aingova iye, mudhudhudhu wake uye gungwa guru rejecha. Sezvo panguva iyoyo pakanga pasina nzira dzakakwana dzekubatsira - GPS, nharembozha? Zvakanaka ipapo… - zvaisaita kubatsira Thierry Sabine. Mushure memazuva matatu, masangano akabatanidzwa akagumisa kutsvaga. Mukana wokupona here? Kunenge pasina.
"Paris-Dakar idambudziko kune avo vari kuenda. Hope kune avo vanogara"
Kunyangwe vachiri vapenyu, mushure memazuva akati wandei mugwenga, kuneta, kupera simba uye kushaya kufema kunobata Thierry Sabine. Zvinotoshamisa ndezvokuti, Sabine paakanga achigadzirira kugumisa upenyu hwake, ndege yakamuona ikaponesa upenyu hwake.
Pasinei nedambudziko iri - rakakwana kuti vanhu vakajairika vasamboda kutsika mugwenga zvakare - muFrench akadanana nerenje nematambudziko aro. Shungu dzakagara kwehupenyu. Adzorerwa kubva muchiitiko ichi che "pedyo nerufu", Thierry Sabine akatenda kuti paifanira kuva nevanhu vakawanda munyika vanoda kuyambuka gwenga kubva kuEurope, kuenda ku: (1) ongorora miganhu yemuviri wemunhu nemichina; uye (piri) inzwa manzwiro emujaho akabatanidza kumhanya, kufamba, dexterity, ushingi uye kutsunga.
Chaive chokwadi. Paivapo.
THE Zvita 26, 1978 , yakatanga nhumwa yekutanga yeParis-Dakar ine vatori vechikamu 182. Nzvimbo yekutanga yakasarudzwa: Eiffel Tower, chiratidzo cheushingi hwevanhu. Pavakapinda 182, 69 chete ndivo vakasvika muDakar.
Kubva panguva iyo, Dakar yakazarura mikova yerenje kunyika yose uye inogara ichipikisa miganhu yevanhu, ichidyisa mweya yakawanda kwazvo. "Paris-Dakar idambudziko kune avo vari kuenda. Hope kune avo vanogara" akadaro rimwe zuva Thierry Sabine.
Pasinei nekuti iyo Dakar haichaitike muAfrica (nekuda kwekusagadzikana kwezvematongerwo enyika mune dzimwe nzvimbo) uye haisisiri kunyura murudo rwedzimwe nguva, chiitiko chinoramba chichikurudzira mamirioni avanhu. Kunze kwevashoma vashoma vevatyairi vendege - vanokwikwidza munhangemutange nenzira dzese dzekukunda - kune mazana evatyairi vevandege vakazvimirira mutambo unoramba wakangofanana newaive makore makumi matatu nemasere apfuura: kusvika kumagumo.
