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January 6, 2017 • Event Reports, Featured • Alexander S
Sebastien Loeb (Peugeot) scored his second stage victory in 2017 Dakar Rally after he was the fastest in the shortened stage 5. The stage from Tupiza to Oruro, with a 447 km long special, was stopped at ASS1 because of bad weather. Over the day most of the...
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January 5, 2017 • Event Reports, Featured • Marijan Malcevic
Cyril Despres is the fourth stage winner in four days of the 2017 Dakar Rally. The Frenchman in the #307 Peugeot 3008 DKR was the fastest on the 416-km long timed section between San Salvador de Jujuy in Argentina and Tupiza in Bolivia. Despres is also the...
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January 4, 2017 • Event Reports • Alexander S
The third stage of 2017 Dakar Rally, from San Miguel de Tucuman to San Salvador de Jujuy with a 364 km long special stage, was most demanding so far. Nasser Al-Attiyah led most of the stage but late in the day the Qatari driver lost a wheel from his Toyota...
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January 3, 2017 • Event Reports, Featured • Marijan Malcevic
The 2017 Dakar Rally continues with 805 km long Stage 2 from Resistencia to San Miguel de Tucuman. The fastest man on the 275-km-long timed section was Sebastien Loeb in the #309 Peugeot 3008 DKR. He needed 2 hours 6.55 minutes for such a distance, minute and...
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January 2, 2017 • Event Reports, Featured • Alexander S
The 2017 Dakar Rally started on Monday and the winner of the 39 km long opening stage between Asuncion and Resistencia is the Qatari driver Nasser Al-Attiyah. He won the opening stage driving the #301 Toyota Hilux Evo. Al-Attiyah set the time of 25 minutes...
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December 29, 2016 • Cars • Marijan Malcevic
The manufacturers that gained the biggest success at Dakar Rally in recent years, were, for instance, Peugeot, Mini, Toyota or Volkswagen.They got the biggest media coverage but there are also some teams and manufacturers that regularly compete in the world...
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December 28, 2016 • Featured, Spotlight • Alexander S
As one of the biggest and best-known truck manufacturers in the world, Iveco is part of the famous Paris – Dakar Rally since 1982. The Turin-based manufacturer, founded in 1975, joined the Paris – Dakar caravan back in 1982 with private teams. For...
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December 27, 2016 • Cars, Featured, Memories • Marijan Malcevic
Peugeot 405 Turbo 16 (or 405 T16) is the legendary race car which earned two consecutive Dakar Rally victories for the French manufacturer in 1989 and 1990, driven by Ari Vatanen. It were the last two wins before Peugeot’s return to Dakar in 2015. Prior...
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December 26, 2016 • Cars, Featured, Spotlight • Marijan Malcevic
The Toyota Hilux Evo is the race car prepared by Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa for participation at 2017 Dakar Rally. That car marked not only an evolution but also a revolution of the race car concept for Toyota’s Dakar adventure because Hilux Evo...
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December 24, 2016 • Featured, News • Marijan Malcevic
The 2017 Dakar Rally will be the 38th edition of the world’s toughest rally-raid race, which started for the first time in December 1978. This year’s edition will be the ninth consecutive year that event take place in South America. For the first...
