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The format of the rally was revised for 2002 with the introduction of two-day stages and two stages without the use of navigation aids. [1] The race started in Arras in northern France on 28 December 2001 and finished at Dakar in Senegal on 13 January 2002. [ 1 ]
2001 was the final time that the rally used the familiar Paris-Dakar route, and was notable for Mitsubishi's Jutta Kleinschmidt, as she was the first woman to win the rally – albeit only after Schlesser was penalised one hour for unsportsmanlike conduct. [11]
This is a list of records in the Dakar Rally since 1979. [1] [2] [3] [4]Records are correct as of the 2025 Dakar Rally.Updates are likely to happen during a rally and are subject to change due to the nature of time penalties occurring throughout the rally.
Yazeed Al-Rajhi becomes the first driver to win on home soil since Pierre Lartigue won the Paris to Dakar to Paris rally in 1994.
Richard Sainct (14 April 1970 – 29 September 2004) was a French rally raid motorcycle rider, best known for his three victories on The Paris-Dakar rally in 1999, 2000 and 2003. [ 1 ] Biography
Among the 46 non-competitor fatalities are those of the race's founder Thierry Sabine, 14 news journalists and support crew, 23 spectators, and 4 children. The Dakar Rally has received criticism because of its high mortality rates, with the Vatican Paper describing the event as "the bloody race of irresponsibility". [1]
Did Paul Tracy or Helio Castroneves win the Indianapolis 500 in 2002 ? History says Castroneves. Twenty years later, Tracy maintains it was him.
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.