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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.
In 1982, Mark Thatcher, son of the then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, along with his French codriver Anne-Charlotte Verney and their mechanic, disappeared for six days. On January 9, the trio became separated from a convoy of vehicles afer they stopped to make repairs to a faulty steering arm. They were declared missing on January 12; afer a large-scale search, a Lockheed L100 search plane from the Algerian military spotted their white Peugeot 504 some 50 km (30 mi) off course. Thatcher, Verney and the mechanic were all unharmed. The organiser of the rally, Thierry Sabine, was killed when his Ecureuil helicopter crashed at 07:30 p.m. on Tuesday 14 January 1986, into a dune at Mali during a sudden sand-storm. Also killed onboard was the singer-songwriter Daniel Balavoine, helicopter pilot François-Xavier Bagnoud, journalist Nathalie Odent and Jean-Paul Lefur who was a radiophonic engineer for RTL.Six people were killed during the 1988 race, three participants and three local residents. In one incident, Baye Sibi, a 10-year-old Malian girl, was killed by a racer while she crossed a road. A film crew's vehicle killed a mother and daughter in Mauritania on the last day of the race.
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