Dakar Rally Unveils Tough Arabian Desert Route

The 2019 Dakar Rally was the 41st edition of the event and the eleventh successive year that the event was held in South America. The event started in Lima, Peru on 6 January and finished there on 17 January after 10 stages of competition. Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah won his third Dakar in the Cars division for Toyota, in the process becoming the second person to win the Dakar Rally with three different vehicle manufacturers (other wins came with Volkswagen in 2011 and Mini in 2015). In the Bikes division, Toby Price of Australia won his second Dakar Rally despite suffering from a fractured wrist during the event. The Kamaz team of Eduard Nikolaev, Evgenii Iakovlev and Vladimir Rybakov won their third consecutive title in the Trucks division. This would mark the final time the Dakar Rally was held in South America. From 2020 onwards, the rally will be held in Saudi Arabia. 

Dakar Rally : Rugged racers cross desert and dune

The 2018 Dakar Rally is the 40th edition of the event and the tenth successive year that the event will be held in South America. The event will start in Lima, Peru, on January 6, then run through Argentina and Bolivia, and will finish in Córdoba, Argentina, on January 20 after 14 stages of competition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inside Dakar : The World’s Toughest Off-Road Car Rally

The Dakar Rally is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Most events since the inception in 1978 were from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal, but due to security threats in Mauritania, which led to the cancellation of the 2008 rally, races since 2009 have been held in South America. The race is open to amateur and professional entries, amateurs typically making up about eighty percent of the participants.

The race is an off-road endurance event. The terrain that the competitors traverse is much tougher than that used in conventional rallying, and the vehicles used are true off-road vehicles rather than modified on-road vehicles. Most of the competitive special sections are off-road, crossing dunes, mud, camel grass, rocks, and erg among others. The distances of each stage covered vary from short distances up to 800–900 kilometres (500–560 mi) per day.