He grew between wheels and gasoline in his grandfather’s motorcycle workshop, who as a young man had also competed in the Motocross National. Seeing his brother pilot, Edgar Canet (La Garriga) also wanted to do it. His brother finally opted for … Football, but he, who had played in the Garriga team, with 7 years was decided by motorcycles. «Many years ago we don’t have a Spanish Dakar champion on motorcycles. I want to be me. Following the steps of Nani Roma and Marc Comaamong many other referents that have been an example in this international test, in my mind is the possibility of being able to lift the tuareg one day. I am 19 years old (he turned 20 on March 16) and I will give everything, ”the Catalan appeared before taking the exit in the Bisha prologue, in the Saudi Arabia desert. And his performance during the remaining 12 stages confirmed him as a future winner of the hardest rally in the world. Canet won its category, in Rally2and ended in eighth position in the Motos General, just one hour and forty minutes from the winner, Daniel Sanders. Second Spanish, just behind Tosha Schareina. «It does not generate pressure to say that I am the future of Spain in the Dakar. I like it. In the Dakar 2025 the number one objective was to end and learn. I don’t think it’s time to try to win everything, but to learn and take experience to have all weapons and everything in a few years to fight to win the Dakar, ”he added.
Sponsors are not missing. His mentor is Nani Romawho left in love when he saw him pilot for the first time with ten years. The double champion of the Dakar (in motorcycles and cars) was amazed by his speed and technique and wanted to help him grow as a pilot, first in motocross, and now, in the RaLy Raid, although at first he advised to advise him to run a rally for his danger. «Nani Roma is the one who has always helped me. I know him because we are from the same area, I have always trained with his son and when he was very young, at 10 years, Nani saw me training and said: ‘I would like to help you’. Therefore, I’ve always been surrounded by people from the world of Raid Rally. Nani is a reference, a person who gives me many advice and who tells me what is fine, but above all, what is wrong, and that is very important, ”he says Canet.
With 14 years he proclaimed himself champion of Spain of Motocross in the 85cc category and subsequently played the National and European Championship in 125cc. When he turned 18 he wanted to change discipline. His goal was the Dakar. In his first race in Rallies he achieved second place in the 1,000 dunes. He then won Oasis rally And then he wanted to measure his level against the best in the world in the W2RC World Cup. He surprised everyone. In his World Cup debut in 2024, in the Portugal Rallywas third in his first stage prologue and finished the event in the 11th Plaza de la General and third in Rally2. He continued marveling at the same result in Route 40 challenge and exploded definitively with a seventh final position (second in Rally2) in Morocco. His talent is so great that KTM He did not hesitate to bet on him with his official structure to run the Dakar.
His career was questioned in January 2021 with a fall that caused the fracture of five vertebrae and a bruise very close to the spinal cord. «Four years ago I didn’t know if I could walk again or if I could get on a motorcycle again. I had to go through three operations, and if that Edgar could chat with the Edgar That I am today, I would tell him that he would not believe it, that he would be very proud and that it means that all the work I have done during these four years has been worth it ».
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