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In 2019, which was the first Dakar Rally to be held in just one country (Peru), Toyota won for the first time with Nasser Al-Attiyah (in his third victory with three different manufacturers). The bike category saw the KTM works team rider, Australian Toby Price, take his first Dakar victory, winning his second title in 2019.
NOTE: Because of the 2007 killing of French tourists in Mauritania, the ASO postponed and relocated the Dakar Rally in 2008, and the race became the 2008 Central Europe Rally. The ASO deferred all Dakar entries to that event, which is technically part of the Dakar lineage.
The Battle of Dakar, also known as Operation Menace, was an unsuccessful attempt in September 1940 by the Allies to capture the strategic port of Dakar in French West Africa (modern-day Senegal). It was hoped that the success of the operation could overthrow the pro-German Vichy French administration in the colony, and be replaced by a pro ...
Youngest competitor: Mitchel van den Brink at 16 years, 357 days [14] Youngest winner of a stage: Car: Saood Variawa at 19 years, 190 days (Stage 3, 2025) Bike: Laurent Charbonnel at 21 years, 297 days (Stage 1, 1990) Challenger T3: Seth Quintero at 18 years, 114 days (Stage 2, 2021) SSV T4: Eryk Goczał at 18 years, 56 days (Stage 1, 2023)
Dakar (/ d ɑː ˈ k ɑːr, d æ-/ UK also: / ˈ d æ k ɑːr /; [4] French:; Wolof: Ndakaaru) [5] is the capital and largest city of Senegal. The department of Dakar has a population of 1,278,469, and the population of the Dakar metropolitan area was at 4.0 million in 2023. Dakar is situated on the Cap-Vert peninsula, the westernmost point of ...
No Name Date Place Stage Vehicle Type 1 Patrice Dodin []: January 1979: Agadez, Niger: Agadez—Tahoua: Yamaha XT 500: Motorcycle Dodin, a French expatriate in Africa, lost control of his Yamaha while adjusting his helmet and fell approaching the start of the stage Agadez-Tahoua, hitting his head on a stone, sustaining a skull fracture.
Japan: White Day. In 1977, the owner of Ishimura Manseido, a small sweets shop in Fukuoka, Japan, came up with the idea of "Marshmallow Day" after reading a letter in a women's magazine.
In January 2015, word spread that the airport would open in June 2015. On April 4, 2015 Reuters announced a new opening date for early 2016. The expected building costs rose to 566 million euros, [2] with over 400 million coming from the Saudi Binladin Group. [4] The airport finally opened for scheduled operations on December 7, 2017. [5]