Short Intro about Dakar rally

 By: Pranit    09:09  1 comment

 
Most of people know about Dakar rally, It is biggest rally race in world for those who don't know, The Dakar Rally (or simply "The Dakar"; formerly known as the "Paris–Dakar Rally") is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Most events since the inception in 1978 were from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal, but due to security threats in Mauritania, which led to the cancellation of the 2008 rally, the 2009 Dakar Rally was run in South America (Argentina and Chile). It has been held in South America each year since 2009.The race is open to amateur and professional entries, amateurs typically making up about eighty percent of the participants.
Despite its "rally" name, it is an off-road endurance race, properly called a "rally raid" rather than a conventional rally. The terrain that the competitors traverse is much tougher and the vehicles used are true off-road vehicles rather than the modified on-road vehicles used in rallies. Most of the competitive special sections are off-road, crossing dunes, mud, camel grass, rocks, and erg among others. The distances of each stage covered vary from short distances up to 800–900 kilometres
 (500–560 mi) per day! The total distance of the Dakar Rally is 5,824 miles/9,372km. Of that total distance, 3,431miles/5,522km are driven off-road in ‘Special Stages’ while 2,393miles/3,852km are uncompetitively driven on public roads where regular traffic laws are observed and speeding gets you penalized. Dakar rally is true sense to push limits of man and machine.