Big Shock! Racing team’s Martin Macik decided on which truck he would race with at the 2022 Dakar. The choice between the tried-and-tested Charles, with which he had already completed two years of the legendary race, and Arnold, an improved special recently completed by team mechanics, was not easy at all. In the end, it

Big Shock! Racing team’s driver Martin Macik with navigator Frantisek Tomasek, mechanic David Svanda, and a new truck named Arnold are currently leading in the truck category at the Rally du Maroc. After the prologue and three stages, they have covered over 1,000 kilometres in challenging terrain full of sand dunes and treacherous stones –

Big Shock! Racing team’s driver Martin Macik, navigator Frantisek Tomasek, mechanic David Svanda, and a brand-new racing truck named Arnold will compete on Friday, October 8 in the Rallye du Maroc, the most demanding rally practice before the 2022 Dakar. Depending on the results, the Czech driver will decide whether to choose a new, improved

Dakar driver Martin Macik has a new ‘toy’ – his father, the boss of the Big Shock! Racing team, Martin Macik, Sr. built him a new racing truck. Its name is Arnold, judging from the cabin, it is an Iveco Powerstar, and the special construction bears the 20 years of Martin Macik, Sr.’s experience. Arnold

Dakar Obsessed 2021 Open Air 21/08/2021 from 1:00 PM, racing vehicles area accessible from 11:00 AM. The driver Martin Macik, navigator Frantisek Tomasek, mechanic David Svanda and Big Shock! Racing team bring you loads of experiences and fun stories from Dakar 2021! Do not miss the third year of the distinctive talk show Dakar Obsessed.

Big Shock! Racing team is celebrating another success – a victory in the truck category of the Baja Aragon rally. The driver Martin Macik, navigator Frantisek Tomasek, and mechanic David Svanda, the crew competing with a truck built in the team workshops, led the race from the very start of the first stage up until

Big Shock! Racing Team starts a new racing season in Spain. This weekend, July 23 - 24, the crew of Macik, Tomasek, and Svanda will take part in the Baja Aragon long-distance rally. Other races will follow. The planned “Obsessed with Dakar” events will certainly keep the fans entertained as well. At the same time,

The Big Shock! Racing team driver Martin Macik has already achieved a lot this year. In January, he successfully finished the Dakar Rally, winning three stage victories in the legendary race and a valuable fourth overall position. Immediately after returning from Saudi Arabia, he prepared an online show Prologue: Obsessed with Dakar for the fans, based on

The driver Martin Macik, navigator Frantisek Tomasek and mechanic David Svanda from the Big Shock! Racing team won three stage victories and a final 4th place at the 2021 Dakar. They wanted long and technically and navigationally difficult stages and they got exactly what they had wished for. In the end, this year's demanding nature

The driver Martin Macik, navigator Frantisek Tomasek and mechanic David Svanda from the private Sedlcany Big Shock! Racing team won the last stage of the Dakar, adding one more stage victory to the previous two and finished Dakar in the excellent 4th place. At the same time, Martin Macik is happy to match the best

Two previous stage victories of the private Sedlcany Big Shock! Racing team have confirmed that a well-organized group of die-hards, the ability to cope under any circumstances and experience of the 19 previous Dakar rallies have a chance to beat factory crews with incomparably larger facilities and higher budgets. In today's, eleventh stage, Martin Macik,

The driver Martin Macik, navigator Frantisek Tomasek and mechanic David Svanda won the truck category in the tenth Dakar stage. After yesterday's victory, the Sedlcany special of the Big Shock! Racing team was the first to cross the finish line again and proved that the dreaded Russian trucks can be defeated. The work of the

The driver Martin Macik, supported by navigator Frantisek Tomasek and by mechanic David Svanda, won the ninth stage of Dakar and holds 5th position in the overall ranking. The team truck, Charles, went through a thorough service overnight, which from which it was released in perfect condition and ready for everything. Therefore, the crew started

Monday's eighth stage, the second part of the marathon stage, was for the Big Shock! Racing team so far the biggest challenge of this year's Dakar. Nevertheless, the driver Martin Macik, navigator Frantisek Tomasek and mechanic David Svanda defended the 5th overall position when they finished the stage in the 8th place. After yesterday's arrival

On Sunday, after a day off, the Dakar set off into the seventh, marathon stage. The crew of the Big Shock! Racing team managed to defend the 5th overall place, after being the 10th fastest at the finish of the stage. A lot was going on from the very beginning. After about 500 meters from

On Saturday, the Dakar caravan parked near the Saudi city of Ha´il for the well-deserved day off. However, you wouldn’t find anyone resting in the bivouac of the Big Shock! Racing team. Although the crew of Martin Macik has done really well so far and currently hold the 4th place in the overall ranking, it

The driver Martin Macik, navigator Frantisek Tomasek and mechanic David Svanda from the Big Shock! Racing team reached a great 4th overall place after the sixth stage of Dakar that they finished in the 7th place. The crew of the yellow Iveco special gradually managed to push forward and overtake their opponents on a demanding,

The Martin Macik with navigator Frantisek Tomasek and mechanic David Svanda finished the fifth stage of the Dakar in the 9th place and are in the excellent 3rd position in the overall ranking. Their yellow truck, Charles, took the lead from the beginning and left behind even the Russian and Belarusian drivers for a great

In the fourth stage of the Dakar, the driver Martin Macik with navigator Frantisek Tomasek and mechanic David Svanda won an excellent 4th place and moved to the valuable 2nd position in the overall ranking in the truck category. In total, the first four trucks reached the finish line only 22 seconds apart. After a

The third stage of Dakar was a success for the crew of the Sedlany Big Shock! Racing team. They reached the finish an excellent 4th place and also hold the 4th position in the overall ranking. The driver Martin Macik, navigator Frantisek Tomasek and mechanic David Svanda did great again in the no. 503 Iveco