Did you know how much air the engine of Gerard de Rooy's Iveco Powerstar consumes when the Dutch driver unleashes the 900 horsepower of his six-cylinder turbo on the Bolivian Andes? The answer is around 70 thousand litres an hour. To avoid the dust and sand that comes with that, filters are normally used, but the Petronas Team de Rooy Iveco has also adopted other shrewd measures – the fruits of a close collaboration between the Dutch team and the engine fluid experts of Petronas Motorsport, working in Villastellone, Italy. De Rooy led the pack in the fourth stage of the 2017 Dakar, making up for a difficult preceding day, where his lost half an hour to Kamaz rival Eduard Nikolaev. But...
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