The star of climbing competitions, magazines and calendars  from the 90th´s Isabelle Patissier (FRA) changed from climbing to car racing and drives this year the famous Rallye Paris - Dakar. Similar as the Czech famous climber Hudy (Jidřich Hudeček) on motorbikes.

She drives Nissan Terrano, in team with her colleague Bernard Irissou. About in the half of the race after yesterday´s stage in Mauritania she is the 20th.


Isabelle Patissier – January 3rd 2004 Rallye Paris - Dakar (Copyright: www.nissan-dessoude.com)


Isabelle Patissier´s Nissan – Jan 6th 2004 Rallye Paris - Dakar (Copyright: www.nissan-dessoude.com)

The news was remarked by the website  www.climbing.de after a tip of a reader in its chat.

Isabelle´s change to engines is not too rare. E.g. there is the famous Czech climber from the 80th´s Jindřich Hudeček who races on motorbikes.

More about the Dakar race and Isabelle’s actual standing is on www.dakar.com, her team number is 245.

Look also on: www.nissan-dessoude.com