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Updates are likely to happen during a rally and are subject to change due to the nature of time penalties occurring throughout the rally. Bold names indicate active as of the most recently finished rally. Stage wins for pilots and manufacturers will include any Dakar Experience/joker and prologue stage wins.
Since 1979, 79 people are known to have died as a result of the Dakar rally. Among the 33 competitor fatalities, 24 were motorcycle related, 6 car related, 1 truck related, and 2 competitors died as a result of local rebel conflict. Up to 1992, collision was the most common cause of death among competitors.
The Dakar Rally or simply "The Dakar" (French: Le Rallye Dakar ou Le Dakar), formerly known as the "Paris–Dakar Rally" (French: Le Rallye Paris-Dakar), is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Most events since the inception in 1978 were staged from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal.
Dakar Début Titles Luciano Benavides Argentina: 2018 Mohammed Abu-Issa Qatar: 2014 Joseph Adua France: 2004 Gianni Lora Lamia Italy: 1990 Nasser Al-Attiyah Qatar: 2004 Cars - 2011, 2015 Nunzio Coffaro Venezuela: 2012 Cars T1.2 - 2012 Yazeed Al-Rajhi Saudi Arabia: 2015 Philippe Alliot France: 1988 Luc Alphand France: 1998 Cars - 2006 Alain ...
After his second victory in 1994, when he placed at the 6th place in the common auto-camion category some media started to call him Monsieur Dakar. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After the Dakar Rally he took part in the Paris-Moscow-Beijing rally in 1993 (3rd place), the Master Rallye in 1995 (4th place) and the UAE Desert Challenge in 1999 (3rd place) and 2000 ...
1988 Dakar Rally also known as the 1988 Paris–Dakar Rally was the 10th running of the Dakar Rally event. 311 cars, 183 motorcycles, and 109 trucks started the rally. [1] The rally was won by Juha Kankkunen , the motorcycle category was won by Edi Orioli , and the truck category was won by Karel Loprais on a Tatra 815 . [ 2 ]
He died at age 47 near Kiffa, Mauritania, caused by a crash on 11 January 2005 on the 11th stage of the 2005 Dakar Rally. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] His official cause of death was cardiac arrest, according to his official website, [ 6 ] [ 3 ] although his injuries included cervical spine damage.
Hubert Auriol (French: [ybɛʁ oʁjɔl]; 7 June 1952 – 10 January 2021) was a French professional off-road motorcyclist and auto racer competing in rally raid events. After retiring as a competitor, he served as the director of The Paris-Dakar rally.