Stéphane Peterhansel, Carlos Sainz and Cyril Despres will race the 2019 Dakar Rally with the X-raid MINI JCW Team.
Vladimir Chagin
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The Dakar Rally is among the least predictable motorsport events of the year – more than 4,000km of competitive timed stages, across deserts, through valleys and over the Andes – and this year is more wide open than ever.
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The dust – both figurative and lung cloggingly real – have now settled on the 2011 Dakar Rally. 407 teams of bikers and drivers set off from Buenos Aires and…
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San Juan – Cordoba Bikes, Quads, Cars: 555km; Trucks: 266km Stage Twelve marked the penultimate stage of the 2011 Dakar Rally, and the final ‘real’ challenge for the 205 crews…
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Chilecito – San Juan 370km Following the long trek over the Andes on Stage Ten, a 370km special lay in wait for the competitors on Stage Eleven, as the 2011…
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Antofagasta – Copiapo 508km Stage eight saw a mix of winners. In some classes it was the predictable winner, a leader only extending their lead in the overall standings. In…
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Arica – Antofagasta 273km After a well earned day off the remaining drivers and riders – 125 bikes, 17 quads, 92 cars and 46 trucks – of the 2011 Dakar…
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Calama – Iquique 423km After crossing the Andes yesterday today’s run to Iquique took the 2011 Dakar almost to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Today saw almost the exact…
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San Salvador du Jujuy, Argentina – Calama, Chile 207km After a marathon stage yesterday – which claimed more than its fair share of racers – stage four was only a…
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Cordoba-San Miguel de Tucuman Bikes, Quads: 300km Cars, Trucks: 324km Stage two and the 2011 Dakar Rally swings north through Argentina. Another stage whose nature played into the hands of…
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The Dakar Rally is perhaps, the biggest challenge in motorsport. Just as people around the world are muttering something about ‘never drinking again’ as they wake up on New Year’s…
Cordoba – Buenos Aires 181km After two weeks on one of the hardest races on earth the surviving riders and drivers of the 2011 Dakar Rally had just 181km of…
Copiapo – Copiapo 235km On a map today’s loop to the north of Copiapo is an innocuous stage. However, the short 235km stage took the competitors through (across and over)…
Iquique-Arica 456km Today’s sixth stage brought the Dakar to Arica – the most northerly point on this year’s route, just a stone’s throw from Chile’s border with Peru. But for…
San Miguel du Tucuman – San Salvador de Jujay Bikes, Quads: 521km; Cars: 500km; Trucks: 226km Another day heading to the north meant the longest stage of the Dakar so…
Two weeks. 9,000 kilometres. Nearly 400 started. Less than 200 finished two weeks later. Sometimes numbers are really all you need to sum up an event. For the second year…