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The 34th Dakar will start from Lima, Peru, on January 5, 2013. The event features an 8,574km route, including 4,155km of competitive action, and finishes in Santiago, Chile.
The entry includes the past four winners of the celebrated cross-country rally, namely Stephane Peterhansel, Nasser Al-Attiyah, Carlos Sainz and Giniel de Villiers.
Peterhansel, who has won the event 10 times from 23 starts (six on two wheels, and four in a car), will spearhead the X-Raid Team effort which includes six MINI ALL4 Racings (new production three-litre bi-turbo diesel engine), 10 service trucks and two competing trucks.
The Frenchman will have a new co-driver, Jean-Paul Cottret, while Michel Périn will be back to navigate Spaniard Nani Roma who is still chasing after his first Dakar victory on four wheels. X-Raid Team's line-up also includes Russia's Leonid Novitskiy, Pole Krzysztof Holowczyc and rookies Boris Garafulic and Stephan Schotts. Argentina's Terranova will also be in the team, but in a BMW X3 CC.
In 2012, the new Toyota Hilux (V8 4.6-litre petrol engine) was surprisingly competitive for its debut. This January will see a six-car entry led by South Africans Giniel de Villiers and Vos Duncan (Toyota Imperial South Africa), along with four cars run by the Belgian team Overdrive for Lucio Alvarez, Peter Van Merksteijn and Poles Szymon Ruta and Adam Malysz.
Overdrive's boss Jean-Marc Fortin has dropped his role as co-driver to Holowczyc to better look after his team which collected an encouraging one-two finish on the Qatar Sealine Cross Country Rally, while Alvarez was fourth on the Silk Way Rally.
The newly-formed Qatar Red Bull Rally Team will have buggies (2WD, V8 seven-litre petrol V8 engines) for ex-winners Nasser Al-Attiyah and Carlos Sainz. Another top two-wheel drive runner will be the USA's Robby Gordon (Hummer) who was excluded in 2012.
SMG has entered five cars: three 2WD buggies (V8 petrol engine) for Guerlain Chicherit, Ronan Chabot and Bernard Errandonea, plus two 4x4 Great-Walls (based on the BMW X3 CC) for Carlos Souza and Yong Zhou.
Other leading entries include three Dessoude ‘prototypes: two new Juke buggies (2WD, diesel two-litre bi-turbo engine) for Christian Lavieille and Stephane Wintenberger, and an ‘Atacama' for Frederic Chavigny.
Eric Vigouroux returns in a Protruck Chevrolet, while Dutchman Bernhard Ten Brinke is back in a Ford HRX V8 prototype (Riwald Dakar Team). There will be Aston Martin-engined Mitsubishi prototypes, too, for Brazil's Guilherme Spinelli and Dutchman Erik Van Loon.
The seven-time German Rally Champion Matthias Kahle will be contesting the Dakar for the fifth time in a SAM-Mercedes (2WD, three-litre turbo diesel V6). MD Rallye Sport has entered eight buggies, including three Optimus V8s (five-litre Ford 380hp petrol engines) for Thomasse, Vasseur and Vandromme.
The total entry exceeds 150 cars.
The 34th Dakar will start from Lima, Peru, on January 5, 2013. The event features an 8,574km route, including 4,155km of competitive action, and finishes in Santiago, Chile.
The entry includes the past four winners of the celebrated cross-country rally, namely Stephane Peterhansel, Nasser Al-Attiyah, Carlos Sainz and Giniel de Villiers.
Peterhansel, who has won the event 10 times from 23 starts (six on two wheels, and four in a car), will spearhead the X-Raid Team effort which includes six MINI ALL4 Racings (new production three-litre bi-turbo diesel engine), 10 service trucks and two competing trucks.
The Frenchman will have a new co-driver, Jean-Paul Cottret, while Michel Périn will be back to navigate Spaniard Nani Roma who is still chasing after his first Dakar victory on four wheels. X-Raid Team's line-up also includes Russia's Leonid Novitskiy, Pole Krzysztof Holowczyc and rookies Boris Garafulic and Stephan Schotts. Argentina's Terranova will also be in the team, but in a BMW X3 CC.
In 2012, the new Toyota Hilux (V8 4.6-litre petrol engine) was surprisingly competitive for its debut. This January will see a six-car entry led by South Africans Giniel de Villiers and Vos Duncan (Toyota Imperial South Africa), along with four cars run by the Belgian team Overdrive for Lucio Alvarez, Peter Van Merksteijn and Poles Szymon Ruta and Adam Malysz.
Overdrive's boss Jean-Marc Fortin has dropped his role as co-driver to Holowczyc to better look after his team which collected an encouraging one-two finish on the Qatar Sealine Cross Country Rally, while Alvarez was fourth on the Silk Way Rally.
The newly-formed Qatar Red Bull Rally Team will have buggies (2WD, V8 seven-litre petrol V8 engines) for ex-winners Nasser Al-Attiyah and Carlos Sainz. Another top two-wheel drive runner will be the USA's Robby Gordon (Hummer) who was excluded in 2012.
SMG has entered five cars: three 2WD buggies (V8 petrol engine) for Guerlain Chicherit, Ronan Chabot and Bernard Errandonea, plus two 4x4 Great-Walls (based on the BMW X3 CC) for Carlos Souza and Yong Zhou.
Other leading entries include three Dessoude ‘prototypes: two new Juke buggies (2WD, diesel two-litre bi-turbo engine) for Christian Lavieille and Stephane Wintenberger, and an ‘Atacama' for Frederic Chavigny.
Eric Vigouroux returns in a Protruck Chevrolet, while Dutchman Bernhard Ten Brinke is back in a Ford HRX V8 prototype (Riwald Dakar Team). There will be Aston Martin-engined Mitsubishi prototypes, too, for Brazil's Guilherme Spinelli and Dutchman Erik Van Loon.
The seven-time German Rally Champion Matthias Kahle will be contesting the Dakar for the fifth time in a SAM-Mercedes (2WD, three-litre turbo diesel V6). MD Rallye Sport has entered eight buggies, including three Optimus V8s (five-litre Ford 380hp petrol engines) for Thomasse, Vasseur and Vandromme.
The total entry exceeds 150 cars.