Reinaldo Varela

{{short description|Brazilian four-wheeler motorcycle rider}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|4|17|df=yes}}

| birth_place = São Paulo, Brazil

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| teams = Can-Am

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| championships = Dakar Rally

| wins = 2018

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Reinaldo Varela (born 17 April 1959) is a Brazilian rally raid racer in the car and later Side-by-side categories. He had been a two-time world champion in the T2 class car category and won the Rally dos Sertões in the car category twice.{{cite web|url=http://pistalivre.com.br/index.php/2017/12/08/rally-dakar-reinaldo-varela-faz-treino-de-luxo-com-o-utv-can-am-maverick-x3/|work=Pista Livre|location=Brazil|date=8 December 2017|title=Rally Dakar – Reinaldo Varela faz "treino de luxo" com o UTV Can-Am Maverick X3|first=Rogenes|last=Palestra}} In 2018, he entered the Dakar Rally in the Side by Side category, winning five stages and triumphing in the general classification, being his navigator the Brazilian Gustavo Gugelmin.

Career results

=Rally Dakar results=

class="wikitable"
Year

!Class

!Vehicle

!Position

!Stage wins

2014

|rowspan=1| Car

|align="center"| Mitsubishi ASX

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2018

|Side by Side (SSV)

|align="center"| Can-Am

|align="center" style="background:#FFFFBF;"| 1

|align="center"| 5

2019

|Side by Side (SSV)

|align="center"| Can-Am

|align="center" | 3

|align="center"| 3

2020

|Side by Side (SSV)

|align="center"| Can-Am

|align="center" | -

|align="center"| 1

References