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Cycle News 2019 Issue 02 January 15

Cycle News is a weekly magazine that covers all aspects of motorcycling including Supercross, Motocross and MotoGP as well as new motorcycles

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P72 Interview F O R M E R DA K A R R A L LY R AC E R B E P P E G U A L I N I BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK PHOTOGRAPHY BY BG ARCHIVES An "I n Africa, 40 years ago, was danger- ous," says Italian Beppe Gualini. "Was a problem to enter because you go completely into a war. You can go to Algeria, but you don't know if you come back." As you roll through life, people like Gualini are ones who stick in your mind. They bury a place in your memory, for people like Beppe are prime examples of living life to its maxi- mum potential, to leave nothing on the table when your day of reckoning comes. Beppe is better known these days as the man who organizes and marshals the rides for Ducati's international press launches, ferrying journalists from one photo stop to the next, at a pace he's learned to live with compared to his previous life as one of the pioneering Italians for African rally racing. A veteran of 65 rallies on the African continent, Gualini was an integral part of the golden years of the Paris-Dakar—the treacherous, life-affirming mission from the French capital of Paris to Senegal's capital of Dakar on the coast of West Africa, back when there were no phones, no GPS, just you and your navigational wits against the beast that is the Tenere Desert. Born into a family living below the poverty african odysse y BEPPE GUALINI IS THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DAY-TO-DAY RUNNING OF DUCATI PRESS LAUNCHES, BUT HIS STORY IS SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT

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