A Renault truck during the 2004 Dakar

The Paris Dakar Rally (or simply "The Dakar") is an annual professional off-road race, currently sponsored by Total S.A. and organized by the Amaury Sport Organisation. The race is open to amateur and professional entries; amateurs typically make about eighty percent of the participants. Image File history File links Camion_dakar. ... Image File history File links Camion_dakar. ... Renault S.A. is a French vehicle manufacturer producing small to upper-midsize cars, vans, buses and trucks. ... Total SA (NYSE: TOT) is a multinational energy company, and one of the top four oil companies in the world (along with Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil). ... The Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) is part of the French media group, EPA (Philippe Amaury Publications), and is well-known as the organiser of various major sporting events, including the Tour de France and Paris-Nice professional cycle road races, and the Paris-Dakar Rally. ...

Despite its name, it is an off-road endurance race rather than a conventional rally – the terrain the competitors traverse is much tougher and the vehicles used are true off-road vehicles rather than the modified sedans used in rallies. Most of the competitive sections ("stages" or "specials") are off-road, crossing dunes, mud, camel grass, rocks, erg, among others. The distances covered vary from several kilometers to several hundred kilometers per day. Endurance racing can refer to races involving persons running in events such as marathons or triathlons, long cross-country skiing events, the racing of horses or other animals, or motorsport. ... Rallying (international) or rally racing (US) is a form of automobile racing that takes place on normal roads with modified production or specially built road cars. ... Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley National Park In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by eolian (wind-related) processes. ... In computer gaming, a MUD (multi-user dungeon, dimension, or sometimes domain) is a multi-player computer game that combines elements of role-playing games, hack and slash style computer games, and social instant messaging chat rooms. ... A grassy swamp. ... Sedimentary, volcanic, plutonic, metamorphic rock types of North America. ... An erg is the unit of energy in the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system of units. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer) (symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ...

History and route

Tracks through the desert

The race originated in 1978, a year after racer Thierry Sabine got lost in the desert and decided this would be a good location for a regular rally. Originally, the rally was from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal, interrupted by a transfer across the Mediterranean; however due to politics and other factors, the course, including origin and destination, have been varied over the years. Early rallies passed frequently through Algeria. Today's rallies pass through Morocco and onto the grasslands and deserts of Mauritania. The segments running though Atar and the sand dunes and canyons of Mauritania's Adrar Region may be the most challenging in all off road racing. ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1258, 230 KB) Found on fr: Traces laissées par le Rallye Dakar dans le Sahara Mauritanien Photo prise en janvier 2005. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1258, 230 KB) Found on fr: Traces laissées par le Rallye Dakar dans le Sahara Mauritanien Photo prise en janvier 2005. ... Thierry Sabine (° 13 June 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine - † 14 January 1986) - french wrangler, motorcycle racer - founder and main organizer of Paris Dakar. ... A dune in the Egyptian desert In geography, a desert is a landscape form or region that receives little precipitation - less than 250 mm per year. ... The neutrality and factual accuracy of this article are disputed. ... (City of Dakar, divided into 19 communes darrondissement) City proper (commune) Région Dakar Département Dakar Mayor Pape Diop (PDS) (since 2002) Area 82. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Politics Look up Politics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Politics (disambiguation) Democracy History of democracy List of democracy and elections-related topics List of years in politics List of politics by country articles Progressivism Progressive Logic Political corruption Political economy Political movement... See also Atar, Mauritania. ... Adrar (Arabic: ولاية آدرار) is a large region in Mauritania, named for the Adrar Plateau. ...

The last route from Paris to Dakar was organised in 1994; this was also the only time the rally went from Paris to Dakar and back to Paris. Due to complaints of the mayor of Paris, the finish had to be moved from the Champs-Élysées to Euro Disney. This also caused the organisation to lay out the rally through differing locations in the years to follow: A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Avenue des Champs-Elysées from Place de la Concorde, seen from above the obelisk The Champs-Elysées (pronounced â–¶ (help· info) literally the Elysian fields) is a broad avenue in the French capital Paris. ... Castle of the Sleeping Beauty in Disneyland Park Disneyland Resort Paris is a theme park in Marne-la-Vallée, near Paris. ...

• 1999: From Granada to Dakar
• 2000: From Dakar to Cairo, Egypt
• 2001: From Paris to Dakar, Senegal
• 2002: From Arras, France (160 km North of Paris), through Madrid, Spain, to Dakar
• 2003: From Marseilles to Sharm el Shiekh, Egypt
• 2004: From Clermont-Ferrand to Dakar
• 2005: From Barcelona, Spain to Dakar
• 2006: From Lisbon, Portugal to Dakar

In 1992, Hubert Auriol won the Dakar in an automobile after having previously won the motorcycle competition on two occasions, making him the first driver to win on both two and four wheels. Although technically in Giza, The Great Pyramids have become a symbol of Cairo internationally Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة; transliterated: al-Qāhirah) is the capital city of Egypt (and previously the United Arab Republic) and has a metropolitan area population of approximately 15. ... (City of Dakar, divided into 19 communes darrondissement) City proper (commune) Région Dakar Département Dakar Mayor Pape Diop (PDS) (since 2002) Area 82. ... Arras is a town and commune in northern France, préfecture (capital) of the Pas-de-Calais département. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Marseilles redirects here. ... Sharm el Sheikh is located at the Southern tip of the Sinai peninsula in Egypt. ... Clermont-Ferrand is a city of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of approximately 140,000. ... Barcelona is the capital city of Catalonia and the second most populous city in Spain. ... District Lisbon Mayor   - Party Carmona Rodrigues PSD Area 84. ... Hubert Auriol (born in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, June 7, 1952) is a former French racing driver and former director of the Paris-Dakar Rally. ... Imme R 100,Germany, 1948/1949 A 125 cc motorcycle, the Italian-manufactured Cagiva Planet. ...

Vehicles and classes

The three major competitive classes of the Dakar are motorcycles, automobiles (ranging from buggies to small trucks) and large trucks. Many vehicle manufacturers exploit the harsh environment the rally offers as a testing ground, and consequently to demonstrate the durability of their vehicles, although most vehicles are heavily modified. Imme R 100,Germany, 1948/1949 A 125 cc motorcycle, the Italian-manufactured Cagiva Planet. ... cars go vroom vroom . ... Dune buggy A dune buggy is a recreational vehicle having big wheels and tires designed for use on sand dunes or beaches, especially a light vehicle with a modified engine mounted on an open chassis. ... The driver of this DAF tractor with an auto-transport semi-trailer prepares to offload Skoda Octavia cars in Cardiff, Wales For further uses of the word truck, see Truck (disambiguation). ...

Originally, mostly European utility vehicles such as Land Rover Range Rover, Toyota Land Cruiser, Mercedes Geländewagen and Pinzgauer dominated the race; other manufacturers entered heavily modified street vehicles such as Rolls Royce, Citroën and even Porsche. As of 2002, examples in the car class include Mitsubishi (Pajero/Montero), Nissan, and Hyundai; Mercedes, Range Rover, and BMW sport-utilities are represented but do not appear in the leader positions. Jean-Louis Schlesser builds a series of custom dune buggy vehicles for the race, and has won with them several times. American ("Baja") style pro trucks make an appearance, but they are also seldom in the winner's circle. Land Rover was the name of one of the first British civilian all-terrain utility vehicles, first produced by Rover in 1947. ... First-generation Range Rover The Range Rover is the top luxury SUV model of Land Rover. ... 2004 US-spec Toyota Land Cruiser Older 60-series Toyota Land Cruiser in Africa, equiped for expedition use A Land Cruiser on an 80% (45°) slope at the IAA 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany The Toyota Land Cruiser is a series of popular four wheel drive automobiles from the Toyota Motor... Mercedes-Benz G-Class (G 500 V8) DaimlerChrysler offers a series of sport utility vehicles to the public under the Mercedes-Benz brand as G-Class. ... Pinzgauer is a high mobility all-terrain 4x4 and 6x6 military utility vehicle manufactured in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom, by Automotive Technik (ATL). ... Rolls-Royce is a set of companies, all deriving from the British automobile and aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls in 1906. ... Citroën is a French automobile manufacturer, started in 1919 by André Citroën, today part of PSA Peugeot Citroën. ... Porsche (), (pronounced porsh-uh) is a German manufacturer of sports cars, founded in 1931 by Ferdinand Porsche, the engineer who created the first Volkswagen. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Mitsubishi companies, or the Mitsubishi Group of Companies or the Mitsubishi Group is a large group (keiretsu) of independently operated Japanese companies which share the Mitsubishi brand name. ... Mitsubishi Shogun 2800 in the United Kingdom The Mitsubishi Pajero, known as the Mitsubishi Montero in North America and Spanish-speaking countries, and as Mitsubishi Shogun in the United Kingdom, is an SUV built by the Mitsubishi Motors Corporation. ... Nissan Motor Co. ... The neutrality of this article is disputed. ... BMW AG (an abbreviation for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or in English, Bavarian Motor Works), is a German company and manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. ... Jean-Louis Schlesser is a racing driver with experience in circuit racing and cross-country rallying. ... Dune buggy A dune buggy is a recreational vehicle having big wheels and tires designed for use on sand dunes or beaches, especially a light vehicle with a modified engine mounted on an open chassis. ... Baja can refer to: Baja California peninsula, a peninsula in North America Baja California and Baja California Sur, states of Mexico Baja, a city in Hungary Baja Verapaz, a department of Guatemala Subaru Baja, a car manufactured by Subaru Baja 1000, an off road race. ...

Trucks (T4 "Camions" or "Lorries") include Tatra, Kamaz, Hino, MAN, DAF and Mercedes-Benz Unimog. In the 1980s, a strong rivalry between DAF and Mercedes-Benz led to vehicles which had twin engines and more than 1000 hp (750 kW). Later Tatra, Perlini and Kamaz took the race up. Tatra T87. ... Kamaz (Камский автомобильный завод - Камаз/Kamskiy avtomobilny zavod - Kama Automobil Zavodı - Kamaz) is a Russian truck manufacturer. ... Categories: Cities in Tokyo Prefecture | Japan geography stubs ... MAN AG is a German manufacturer (engineering works) and marketer of commercial vehicles, industrial services, printing systems, diesel and gas engines, and turbomachines. ... DAF is a Dutch automobile company, with its main offices in Eindhoven. ... Unimog The Unimog (from the German UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät, meaning universal motor machine/equipment) is a series of trucks from Daimler-Benz designed shortly after WWII, originally to be used as slow-moving tractors for Germanys turnip harvest. ... The horsepower (hp) is the name of several non-metric units of power. ... The kilowatt (symbol: kW) is a unit for measuring power, equal to one thousand watts. ...

KTM is the most popular and currently leading motorcycle. At the present, the main competitors in the car class are Volkswagen, Mitsubishi and Nissan, and in the motorcycle class are Yamaha Motor Corporation and KTM. After 2000, renewed competition started in the truck class between DAF, Tatra, Mercedes-Benz and Kamaz. Kronreif, Trunkenpolz, Mattighofen (KTM) is a Austrian motorcycle manufacturer. ... Yamaha Motor Corporation (ヤマハ発動機株式会社) is a motorized vehicle-producing company, initially part of the Yamaha Corporation. ...

Sponsors

• Total / ELF (Petrol distributor)
• Euromaster (tires)
• Telefónica

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Television coverage

The English television coverage of the rally is narrated by Toby Moody, a retired motorcycle rider whose distinct accent (especially pronouncing foreign names such as "Schless-ah", "Shi-no-zoo-ker" and "Me-oh-nee") adds to the personality of the race. Toby Moody is the worldwide voice of the Dakar Rally. ... Accents mark speakers as a member of a group by their pronunciation of the standard language. ...

Coverage of the race in the United States has been spotty over the years. The Speed Channel devoted a half-hour per day in 2003 and 2004 to the event before being outbid by the Outdoor Life Network for 2005. OLN only programmed a single hour-long retrospective well after the event concluded. But in 2006, OLN has upped its coverage to half-hour long nightly stage recaps including reporters traveling in the bivouacs. SPEED Channel, based in Charlotte, was launched on New Years Day 1996, by Roger Werner, as SpeedVision. ... OLN (formerly known as the Outdoor Life Network until July 2005) is a cable television channel owned by Comcast. ...

Incidents

In 1982, Mark Thatcher, son of the then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, along with his French co-driver Charlotte Verney and their mechanic, went missing in for six days. On January 9, the trio became separated from a convoy of vehicles after they stopped to make repairs to a faulty steering arm. They were declared missing on January 12; after a large-scale search, a C130 Hercules search plane from the Algerian military spotted their white Peugeot 504 some 50km off course. Thatcher, Verney and the mechanic were all unharmed. The Honourable Sir Mark Thatcher, 2nd Baronet (born August 15, 1953), is the only son of Sir Denis Thatcher and Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister. ... In the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising many of the executive functions nominally vested in the Sovereign, who is head of state. ... The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is a British politician. ... January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Lockheed C-130 Hercules, a four-engine turboprop aircraft, is the main tactical air transport aircraft of the United States and UK military forces. ... The armed forces of Algeria is comprised of the Peoples National Army (ANP), Algerian National Navy (MRA), Air Force (QJJ), and Territorial Air Defense Force. ... The Peugeot 504 was a midsize sedan (saloon) automobile produced by the French manufacturer Peugeot from 1968 to 1983. ...

In 1986, the organiser of the rally, Thierry Sabine, died in a helicopter crash. Thierry Sabine (° 13 June 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine - † 14 January 1986) - french wrangler, motorcycle racer - founder and main organizer of Paris Dakar. ...

Six people were killed during the 1988 race; three race 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. The race participants killed, in three separate crashes, were Dutch navigator on the DAF Trucks team, an unaffiliated French driver, and a French motorcyclist. Racers were also blamed for starting a wildfire that caused a panic on a train running between Dakar and Bamako, where three more people were killed.^[1] Bamako, population about 1 500,000 (2004), is the capital of Mali. ...

In 2005, Spanish motorcyclist José Manuel Pérez died in a Spanish hospital on Monday, January 10 after crashing the week before on the 7th stage. Italian motorcyclist Fabrizio Meoni, a two-time winner of the event, became the second Dakar Rally rider to die in two days, following Pérez on January 11 on the 11th stage. Meoni was the 11th motorcyclist and the 45th competitor overall to die in the history of the race. On January 13, a five-year-old Senegalese girl was crushed beneath the wheels of a service lorry after wandering onto a main road, bringing the total deaths to five. Many other African non-participants are said to have been killed because of the Dakar rally, but unlike the participants, no official figures are available and the names of the victims are usually not given. January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Fabrizio Meoni (December 31, 1957 Castiglion Fiorentino - January 11, 2005) was an Italian offroad and endurance motorcycle rider, a member of the KTM Factory Team. ... January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 2006, 41 year old Australian KTM motorcyclist Andy Caldecott died January 9 as a result of neck injuries received in a crash approximately 250 km into the 9th stage between Nouakchott and Kiffa. It was his 3rd participation in the rally. He won the third stage of the 2006 event between Nador and Er Rachidia only a few days before his death. On January 13, a 10-year old boy died while crossing the track after being hit by a car driven by Latvian Maris Saukans, while on January 14 a 12-year old boy was killed after being hit by a support lorry [2]. Kronreif, Trunkenpolz, Mattighofen (KTM) is a Austrian motorcycle manufacturer. ... Andy Caldecott (10 August 1964 – 9 January 2006), was born in Keith, South Australia. ... January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Criticism

The race has been subject to criticism from several sources, generally focusing on the race's impact on the inhabitants of the countries through which it passes.

After the 1988 race, when three Africans were killed in collisions with vehicles involved in the race, PANA, a Dakar-based news agency, wrote that the deaths were "insignificant for the [race's] organizers". The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano called the race a "vulgar display of power and wealth in places where men continue to die from hunger and thirst."^[3] During a 2002 protest at the race's start in Arras, France, a Green Party of France statement described the race as "colonialism that needs to be eradicated".^[4] A news agency is an organization journalists established to supply news reports to organizations in the news trade: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. ... Masthead LOsservatore Romano is the Vaticans newspaper. ... Arras is a town and commune in northern France, préfecture (capital) of the Pas-de-Calais département. ... Les Verts (the Greens) is a Green Party in France. ...

Some local residents along the race's course have said they see limited benefits from the race; that race participants spend little money on the goods and services local residents can offer. The racers produce substantial amounts of dust along the course, and are blamed for hitting and killing livestock, in addition to occasionally injuring or killing people.^[5]

List of winners

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References

1. ^  Brown, Robert Carlton (1988). Disastrous days in the desert. Sports Illustrated, February 1, v68 n5 p20(4).
2. ^  Brooke, James (1988). Dangerous Paris-Dakar race is endangered. The New York Times, March 13, p8.
3. ^  Paterne, Elodie (2001). Protests overshadow start of Paris-Dakar race. Agence France-Presse. December 28.
4. ^  Doggett, Gina (2004) Paris-Dakar rally brings "little but dust", Senegalese villagers say. Agence France-Presse. January 18.

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See also

• Plymouth-Dakar Challenge - low-cost alternative
• Budapest-Bamako - another low-cost alternative

The Plymouth-Dakar Challenge, first run in 2003 and since 2005 also known as the Plymouth-Banjul Challenge, is a car rally for charity. ... The official pace car is a refurbished 1988 Lada Niva Children welcoming the Budapest-Bamako in Mahina, Mali The Budapest-Bamako or Great African Run is a rally organized by a group of Hungarians. ...

External links

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