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2015 DAKAR Rally / 2014 DAKAR Series



The 2014 DAKAR Series: Latin Trio
http://www.desafioinca.com/en/dakar-series-en/

The 2015 DAKAR RALLY WILL COMMENCE ON 01/03/2015


--Desafio Guarani
Ever since the event arrived in neighbouring Argentina, the Paraguayans have followed the Dakar closely. Wanting to host the greats of the discipline in their country and also to give their amateur drivers the ideal stepping stone to the pinnacle of all rallies, Paraguay is becoming ever more involved.

The latest addition to the Dakar Series will take place in July and will send drivers and their teams across the Gran Chaco region, through upper Parana to the capital Asuncion, passing through the departments of Neembucu and Itapua. This second part of the 2014 Dakar Series will take place over four demanding stages. In this landscape, the ability to maintain a high level of concentration will make all the difference.Dates: from 21st to 24th July 2014
http://www.dakar.com/dakar/2015/us/dakar-series.html
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from Motorsport.Com (published 07/2014):
The route of the 2nd edition of the Desafío Inca, the 3rd and final leg of the Dakar Series 2014, was unveiled on Thursday in Lima.

There will be 1,128 km of racing on the programme in the Ica Desert. It all adds up to a tough challenge for the competitors, among whom we will see the title holder, Ignacio Casale, French riders Olivier Pain and David Casteu, or even Peruvian WRC2 driver Nicolas Fuchs, who is taking his first steps in the rally-raid discipline.

As the concluding race of the Dakar Series 2014, following the Desafío Ruta 40 and the brand new Desafío Guaraní, the route for the 2nd Desafío Inca was unveiled on Thursday at the Lima-Miraflorès Hilton Hotel, in the presence of around one hundred people, including Francisco Boza, the Chairman of the Peruvian Sports Institute, as well as representatives of the Ministry for Foreign Trade and Tourism. Furthermore, the Environment Ministry spokesperson Adrian Neyra was in attendance to provide the guarantee that protection of the environment had been taken into consideration when the route was drawn up. “Since the creation of this event, we have been working in close collaboration with the organisers in order to produce a route that protects the sensitive areas around the Paracas national reserve,” she reminded.

As regards the route, the competitors will be faced with a genuine challenge, with more than 930 km of special stages to be tackled over 3 days in the very heart of the Ica Desert, close to Pisco, and for which the base camp will be set up in Paracas. On the menu, there will be 3 different loops proposing a new route for each stage. Although the watchwords will again be sand and dunes, the organisers have worked hard to ensure a veritable diversity of the terrains tackled in order to provide greater overall variety to the event. Naturally, navigation will also be a key factor right along the route, which also boasts several passages on quicker tracks, the outcome of which is a very comprehensive menu and an ideal terrain for the last major preparatory event before the Dakar 2015.

This is more than enough to whet the appetites of some of the discipline’s finest specialists, who will be rising to the challenge and ensuring there is a high quality international field led by title holder Ignacio Casale. The Chilean was indeed in Lima on Thursday to attend the presentation of the race which, in his opinion, enabled him to gain the required confidence to genuinely aim for and succeed in winning the title in the quad category on the Dakar 2014.

Whilst there is little doubt that he will be one of the major favourites to obtain the title he won last year, the eclectic Chilean quad rider will nevertheless have his work cut out against some of the best in his category, such as Uruguayan Sergio Lafuente, Argentinean Sebastien Halpern or Peruvians Ignacio Florés and Enrique Alonso. This high quality is also evident in the bike category with the official KTM, Yamaha and Honda teams, represented by French riders David Casteu and Olivier Pain, Peruvians Felipe Rios and Eduardo Heinrich, as well as Argentinean Javier Pizzolito and Chilean Pablo Quintanilla, who have come to continue the duel they started on the Desafío Ruta 40 last April.

Lastly, in the car category, all eyes will be on the first steps in rally-raid for the Peruvian star of motorsport: Nicolas Fuchs. WRC 2 production category world champion in 2013, the native of Lima will be making his debut in the rally-raid discipline at the age of 31 years old behind the wheel of a Mitsubishi Pajero, and could be the surprise package in a category in which the favourites hail from the Tamarugal Team, which will be putting its leading riders and drivers into each of the 3 categories. Other major names could still join the party before 11th September, since registration for the rally is still open…

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Desafio Guaraní: on the starting blocks
07/18/14



With just two days to go until the inaugural Desafío Guaraní, rally fever has gripped Asunción, as the Paraguayan capital gets ready for the start of the second leg of the 2014 Dakar Series. The atmosphere among the competitors is abuzz in all the categories expected to go down to the wire, in light of the depth of the field in each category and the tough course.



With four stages totalling over 2,000 km, including a marathon stage 1,126 km long, the 83 contenders (32 motorcycles, 27 quads and 24 cars) will not be forgetting the first Desafío Guaraní anytime soon. Its route through several of the regions which make up Paraguay has loads of wonders and excitement in store for the four-day event. While the visit to Filadelfia region has been cancelled due to recent downpours rendering the tracks impassable, the menu remains a spicy one, starting with a loop almost 600 km long in Asunción region, followed by the famous 1,126 km stage via the Ciudad del Este Bivouac. Then comes the grand finale, with another loop over 300 km long around Encarnación, where the second leg of the 2014 Dakar Series and the South American Off-road Rally Championship will be decided.


It is a gourmet's recipe for a titanic struggle in all categories. While jousting for the win in the fourth of six legs in the 2014 Dakar Challenge, the favourites will need to watch out for several outstanding local "amateurs" on the hunt for a ticket to the next Dakar, always capable of springing a surprise or two.

Victory in the motorcycle race should fall to one of the "big boys" —the official KTMs and Hondas—, including Chile's Francisco "Chaleco" López, the only South American to finish on the podium of the Dakar (2010 and 2013), Argentina's Javier Pizzolito, Frenchman David Casteu and Chile's Pablo Quintanilla, who fought to the bitter end in April's Desafío Ruta 40, as well as South America's rising star Diego Martín Duplessis, who will be leading the Kawasaki charge.


Home boy Nelson Sanabria will hog the attention in the quads department, on the back of a twelfth place in the last Dakar and a second place in the Ruta 40 which elevated him to rally-raid pioneer status in his country. He knows the terrain like the back of his hand and will seek to capitalise on this advantage to win the race outright. To do so, he will have to pull off a major upset against next-door neighbour Sergio Lafuente. The Uruguayan's three Dakar stage wins and his victory in the first leg of the 2014 Dakar Series put him clearly in the pole position. And, of course, the entire Mazzuco Can-Am team, with Bolivian Lucas Zaffi at the helm and boss Daniel Mazzuco targeting a win in the 4x4 quad class… without ruling out an overall triumph. Finally, the ever fast and consistent Peruvian brothers, Daniel and Alexis Hernández, will do their best to turn the race on its head.


His dominant performance at the Desafío Ruta 40 makes Argentina's Juan Manuel "Pato" Silva the odds-on favourite to take home the win in the car category. He will have to prove his mettle against Bolivia's Marco Bulacia, whom he hopes to succeed as the new Dakar Series champion at the end of this season. Unless, of course, the impressive Team 4WD Jaton Racing and its eight Toyota Hiluxes rain on their parade.
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Tuesday 07/22/14's stage (Stage 2) is entitled: "Asuncion - Ciudad del Este: Step Marathon"
The second stage in Desafío Guaraní, which will join Asunción and Ciudad del Este, will be the Marathon stage in this race. It is a stage in which drivers cannot receive any kind of service from their teams at the end of it. Drivers must repair the vehicles themselves upon arrival to the Bivouac and will only meet their mechanics again the next day in Encarnación.
The stage will have 247.10 timed kilometers (and 269.79km of liaison) which are split in two sections. The first one over a fast section but with damaged roads, which will force drivers to take care of their machines and then they will go through typical rally hilly roads.
After the middle liaison, the race goes into a sandy section which then becomes wider across an agricultural region full of cornfields, a typical landscape in that Paraguayan eastern region.
Stage 2: “Asunción – Ciudad de Este”
Bivouac-out: 4:55hs
Special Stage Start: 8:00hs
Special Stage Finish: 11:35hs
Bivouac-in: 12:15hs

Winners of Stage 1 (Monday)
Dirtbikes: A guy named Francisco "Vest" Lopez on a KTM 450 Rally Replica won yesterday's stage
Quads 4×2: Sergio Lafuente on a Yamaha Raptor
Quads 4×4: Sebastián Palma on a Can Am Renegade
Cars:
1. Juan Manuel Silva in a Colcar prototype
2. Viktor Rempel in a Proto Audi Evo 3
3. Marco Bulacia in his Toyota FJ Crusier
**In the first few Kliks almost half the teams in cars/trucks got stuck in the mud LOL**

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This is the winner of the 2014 Dakar Rally: MINI ALL4 Racing, Joan “Nani” Roma (ES)
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THE 2015 DAKAR: MARATHON-STYLE

In Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, the drivers and the teams of the Dakar 2015 will discover (or rediscover) the finesse, as well as the harshness of off-road races in the purest sense. Cars and trucks which had not taken part in marathon stages since 2005 will be entitled to do so this year. And a few new features have been added, such as the alternate rest days, changing the overall pace of the rally.
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ACCIONA is the first fully electric car to enter Dakar Rally

ACCIONA is the first team to enter a fully electric car in the prestigious Dakar Rally. Starting 4th of January in Buenos Aires, pilots Albert Bosch and Agustín Payá will push the boundaries of their battery electric vehicle in order to complete a distance of over 9,000 kilometres.

Ambitions to complete the most challenging rally with an electric vehicle exists for years, but the Spanish firm claims the honour of being first. They are not new to environment friendly journeys as the trilogy began in 2011 with its sled that reached the South Pole propelled only by a system of kites and continued its march forward in 2012 by participating in the Vendeé Globe, on board a sailboat that completed a solo, non-stop, round the world trip, without using a drop of fossil fuel.

It will be the first time in its 37-year history that Dakar registers a 100% electric car. Dakar is considered the toughest test in the world for man and machine and where the average consumption expenditure per participant is 2,250 litres of fuel. ACCIONA won’t need a single drop and will not emit CO2.

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Here is the schedule. We're only 2 weeks away!

DATE START FINISH
01/04/2015 Buenos Aires Villa Carlos Paz
01/05/2015 Villa Carlos Paz San Juan
01/06/2015 San Juan Chilecito
01/07/2015 Chilecito Copiapo
01/08/2015 Copiapo Antofagasta
01/09/2015 Antofagasta Iquique

01/10/2015 Rest day Bike / Quad
01/10/2015 Iquique Uyuni (Car) / Marathon (Truck)
01/11/2015 Uyuni (Car) / Marathon (Truck) / Iquique (Bike) Iquique (Car/Truck) / Uyuni (Bike)
01/12/2015 Rest day Car/Truck
01/12/2015 Uyuni Iquique
01/13/2015 Iquique Calama
01/14/2015 Calama Marathon (Bike) / Salta (Car/Truck)
01/15/2015 Marathon (Bike) / Salta (Car/Truck) Termas Rio Hondo
01/16/2015 Termas Rio Hondo Rosario
01/17/2015 Rosario Buenos Aires
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Here is the schedule. We're only 2 weeks away!
Stealth there is a really good video on Robby Gordon's youtube channel "planetrobbydotcom". It is Road to Dakar: Part 1, originally aired on NBCsports. It details building his new "Gordini", a shorter wheelbase truck. Going through testing, and all the prep leading up to 2015 Dakar.
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I think Peugeot are going to nail this one first time out. Not sure why Gordon thinks another trophy truck will work, even a shorter one is bound to fail like all his previous attempts.
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