@Collins incase you did not know, the reason that it got changed to chile-argentina was because of terror threats to competitors and spectators in some of the countries on the original North Africa route in Mauritania, Mali. In 2008, the event was completely cancelled. I think they made a good decision to retain the Dakar name, hopefully in a few years time they will return to the original route. :-)
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Collins Areba
<arebacollins@gmail.com> wrote:
I have a big issue with a dakar rally that neither starts nor ends in Dakar. Why did they not call it Paris Rally?
For those interested in following the daily stages, its on Super Sport2 on DSTV at 7pm for 30 mins. Chile seems to be the the most martian like enviroment, with deserts and long stretches of un-liveable mounatins. VW Toureg3 in the lead.
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