2011 Dakar Rally

The 2011 Dakar Rally was the 33rd edition of the Dakar Rally and the 32, which was actually extended. It took place for the third time in South America.

The rally started on January 1, 2011 in Buenos Aires and ended on 15 January 2011 just there.

The race consisted of 13 stages in total about 9500 km route, of which 5000 kilometers of racing, which have been completed in Argentina and Chile.

Overview

Was organized the 2011 Dakar Rally by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Clerk of the course was the Frenchman Etienne Lavigne.

Originally, take 186 motorcyclists, 33 quads, 156 cars and 72 trucks. But shortly before the start of the rally refused to technical inspectors 23 vehicles for takeoff. Thus, 140 automobiles, 170 motorcyclists, 30 quads and 67 trucks have participated. In total, 407 vehicles were at the start.

Route

The rally began with the opening ceremony in Buenos Aires; it follows the non- timed first part of the day to Victoria than 377 kilometers. That evening, the participants went first to the bivouac. The official timekeeping began on the second leg from Victoria to Cordoba. On January 8, followed by a rest day in Arica.

During the race woodland and bushland in Argentina were first happened; it was followed by the Atacama Desert and the Andes in Chile.

Explanation: On some stages, there were different route variants for each category of vehicle and thus also different leg lengths. Legend: M = motorcycles, quads Q = A = Cars, Trucks T =

Incidents

In the 11th stage on January 13, it came in Tinogasta, in the province of Catamarca, in a serious accident with the rally cars the Argentine driver Eduardo Amor and Horacio Alejandro Fenoglio. My Toyota crashed about 6 clock local time with the pickup of a local peasant who was seriously injured in the collision and later died in hospital. The native is the 60th fatality in the Dakar Rally.

The cause of the collision has not been elucidated. Apparently was no longer expected to continue to rally participants, as the Toyota driver Amor outside the remaining participants field was traveling with the starting number 410 still far way point in Chilecito.

Final result

The motorcycle rating secured for the third time, Spaniard Marc Coma (KTM ), followed by Cyril Despres (France, KTM) and Hélder Rodrigues (Portugal, Yamaha), the quad score went to the Argentinian Alejandro (Yamaha ) in front of Sebastian Halpern (Argentina, Yamaha) and Łukasz Laskawiec (Poland, Yamaha).

Winner of car rating was first Qatari Nasser Al -Attiyah (VW, co-driver Timo Gottschalk ), before Giniel de Villiers / Dirk von Zitzewitz ( VW) and Carlos Sainz / Lucas Cruz ( VW). When the trucks there was a fourfold victory of Russian Kamaz team, fastest pilot was Vladimir Gennadievich Chagin.

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