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[Music]
good evening everyone so I do not sing
I do not play piano now
close your eyes closed eyes
do you imagine in 1981 and you hear
the top 50 hits on the radio foo
phone all these musics you the
hear and watch you
television and at that moment you
see these pictures of the first rallies
raids in africa
paris dakar paris-dakar these pictures
that make me dream about its autopilots
motorcycles that are trying the impossible and these
amateur bikers who go all the way
of their lives that go up to them
to go to the end of themselves
yes these people my pressure I want to be
cyril nephew or hubert auriol at 15
in 1981 at age 15 I decide to leave
school and choose a path
professional to be a draftsman
metal construction in
my dad’s business why
draftsman because I was I
been always a pencil in hand and
I always saw this board
drawing in the kitchen of my parents and
I still have this passion for
motorcycle and with my first salaries I get
pay my first opportunities moped
a jewel of mechanics a peugeot 103
and this moped
I pamper the game transform it game
traffic and to do what
moped races on the
supermarket car parks but for me
supermarket car parks
it was like the world champion who
will ride on the circuit of mans or
castellet and I dream and I dream and to
the age of 17 these motorcycle races me
passionate more and more I get my
draftsman crp under construction
metallic
we are in 1984 and here I am asking myself
question is what I chose this
profession by passion or do I have
wanted by ease to follow the furrow that
my father had traced and at that moment
there I had a revelation I say to myself
but I’ve been around for three years
a computer enthusiast
the computer professions of the future and I
decides to leave the company
family hide in evening class and
of iron programmers programmers yes in
evening classes you had to work and
so I chose to work as
worker in an American company
in team 3 x 8 exciting work
but by cons I still had my
courses my classes my classes and work
and I’m doing my classes and I’m continuing
the bike and all that I run after the
time without ever catching up with it one day
I pass my motorcycle license and here I am
which falls on a specialized journal
in the off-road me who was doing the
all terrain for recreation
here I see in this magazine
an insert that proposes to take the
young people under 25 cross the
desert the Algerian sahara
magic I immediately respond to
the ad I am
ex thione and there I am aware
that I can live my dream that I have
the opportunity and the chance to go
algeria do a rally but for
put all the chances on my side
at that moment I decide to take
all my savings and I’m going to the
dealer buying a motorcycle while
brand new ground is the same this bike
I prepare it I transform it I
pampered day after day and then after
long months of expectations this day is coming
the departure I’m excited I take the
route to the port of Marseille arrived
on the old port
I see other competitors motorcycles
assistance vehicles
the organization but here I am in this
rally atmosphere here I am pilot
rally me who have never traveled
outside France
I who have never crossed the sea
here I am going to cross the
mediterranean to reach africa
and realize my dream I savor all
these moments these encounters and after
to arrive at the port of Algiers
after endless expectations of
customs control now that
military escort us up to
start of the race and there I roll
happy on my motorcycle I cross the
villages and cities in convoy and I
see all these spectators who are
applaud and who are there for us
and then I realize that I am this
rally driver the illusion of being
known and recognized as a pilot of
rally
at that moment the days pass the
fourth day comes the fourth
day the desert entry the desert the
desert the sand as far as the eye can see
dunes but also the silence
no trace of human life and this
desert that reminds me of these images of
paris dakar that I watched without stopping
and I remember those bikers who
crossed its vast expanses
desert alone and here I am by train
to live this month adventure
jean-philippe I live this adventure of
bikers in the desert and I am
happy to live these moments there
the next day’s briefing as each
day announces the difficulties of the
day and this day had an atmosphere
particular because we are told
something dangerous of two
difficult with a lot of kilometers
to go on paris tracks
dakar
but I hear paris dakar and that’s it
I am told we must take the road of
paris dakar tracks
what dream is the dream come true and
despite all these difficulties
the night falls the sand of the others
competitors the dust of the
assistance vehicles
I continue to roll me happy proud
twirling on my bike and I roll I
pilot like a motocross rider
I avoid bumps and here I feel
invincible
I feel alone in the world
and nothing will stop me all
blow a bump and I fly above
sand I dive into a bowl
deep filled with a sand as fine as
flour
my bike is stuck until half
wheels
and there I crash with the helmet
tank of my motorcycle I’m sounded I
do not understand what’s happening to me I’m
heavy time stops
the seconds are falling apart but I have
the impression that it’s an eternity
and here I am stuck at the bottom of this hole
I gradually realize that he
have to get out of this hole and at this
moment I say to myself take your strength
and restart this bike and I
restart several times this bike that
do not want to start that is blocked
in this sand and at that moment I
say the dream that I touched from the end of
fingers fly away I’m exhausted
of strength
I’m here I’m giving up I’m waiting for them
relief at the bottom of this hole but all
suddenly it comes to my mind that
I doubled to many
other competitors’ vehicles and its
trucks and his cars that will come
behind me
night dive in this bowl and
crashing and there like a bad movie
my life scrolls and I say to myself but what is
what I will leave as a trace but
did I live the life that I have
really wanted and at that moment I
here I am gradually becoming aware
that I have to get out of this situation
I have to go out because my life all
whole had no value and that
I did not do anything in my life I did not
found my way I did not find my
job and this energy I find it
I release my bike with my hands I
get off my bike I push it from all
my strengths even if they seem to me
weigh tons and I release it and I
I leave again and then
I hear the engines of others
competitors coming behind me and
there I become aware again
I just escaped the worst at this
moment I drive at night on these
motocross tracks and I fall and I get
picks up and I fall and I get up
dozens of times and there I
see the light of the camp the arrival I
am saved I drop my notebook to
passing controls I collapse of
the bike exhausted the
organizers and doctors take me
in the infirmary and at that moment me
I have an idea in mind to resume my
motorcycle my bike I have to do my
starting attendance is in less than
three hours I have to be ready
I will never give up this rally is
there the next day the day is not
still lifted and I realize that
I just changed the course of my life
this life will not be like before
I have to change my life I have to find
what I want to meet people
richer intense in exchange
that’s what I want to change my life I
finished the rally I’m not I have not
been first I did not win but I
went to the very end of me
finished the rally I managed this dream that
gave me a confidence in me I
left the company
I looked for a job where I
could again exercise my first
drafting profession and I chose to
resume studies
and at that moment I sign up for
National Conservatory of the Arts and
crafts the cnam a test also the
what you know when you
come home but you do not know when you
get out
I did that for four years four
years where I work and I study but
I never forget my passion and I
is already preparing for the next rally
Morocco
I do this for four years until
get my sesame to enter the iut
from strasbourg do a genius dut
civil month which with a peace ca
originally
and now I get this duttie and there I
tell me but the path I chose is
trace little by little this path is taking shape
in front of me and I choose a new
challenge because I’m a man of
challenge and this challenge I want to become
engineer and I choose a voice what
alternating theory and practice
in different companies in
different trades and with
different men
I get this engineering degree ten
years after my life change
I exercise for two years in a
wood frame company both
years later I decide to buy back the
office of my father’s studies of the
develop towards other activities
but especially to dare also moved the
limits of our know- how what I have
retained from this exceptional adventure
this adventure that transformed me
is that if each of us takes
aware that we are able to change
his life I understood things that
seem trivial but I told myself
finally I was lucky enough to live
in a country where we were going back from
freedoms I have the chance to have a
family who gave me happiness and me
who could have been in an event
tragic
now I became an actor of my
life here that I changed the course of
my life
yes this revelation gave me the
courage and energy to become this
that I am today
I do not know if you know
this confucius phrase that says we have
two lives the second one starts when we
realize that we have only one
and if your life stopped tonight is
your second life begins and tomorrow
what limits will you move
thank you very much but revault
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