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DAKAR
The Dakar Rally is an annual Dakar Series rally raid
type of off-road race, organised by the Amaury Sport
Organisaton. Most events since the incepton in 1978
were from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal, but due to
security threats in Mauritania, which led to the cancellaton
of the 2008 rally, the 2009 Dakar Rally was run
in South America.It was the first tme the race took
place outside of Europe and Africa.[1] It has stayed in
South America from 2009 to the present (2013).[2][3]
The race is open to amateur and professional entries.
Amateurs typically make up about eighty percent of
the partcipants.
Despite its 'rally' name, it is an off-road endurance
race, properly called a rally raid rather than a conventonal
rally. The terrain that the compettors traverse
is much tougher and the vehicles used are true offroad
vehicles rather than the modified on-road vehicles
used in rallies. Most of the compettve special
sectons 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.The three
major compettve groups in the Dakar are the motorcycle
(moto) class (including quadbikes as one of
the sub-classes), the car class, (which ranges from
buggies to small SUVs) and the truck class.
Many vehicle manufacturers exploit the harsh environment
the rally offers as a testng ground and
consequently to demonstrate the durability of their
vehicles, although most vehicles are heavily modified
or purpose built.Over 190 different countries
take the internatonal feed of the event with a
roundup of every day being made into a 26-minute
programme. This has been commentated on by
Toby Moody for ten years, but Ben Constanduros
speaks on the 2011 editon.A television documentary
Race to Dakar described the experiences of a
team including the actor Charley Boorman in preparaton
for and entry into the 2006 Dakar Rally.