Rally Dakar: Al-Attiyah celebrates fourth overall victory

The Rally Dakar (previous name Rally Paris-Dakar) is a rally raid competition that is thought about the most substantial long-distance as well as desert rally of the world. In 2008, the Rally Dakar was terminated due to fear risk.

Nasser Al-Attiyah won the 44th Rally Dakar and celebrated its fourth overall victory. At the short last stage, the 51-year-old Qatar did not burn anything and managed his lead in the Toyota sovereign. The Nine Rally World Champion Sebastien Lobe (Pro drive) from France ended the Dakar with 27:46 minutes behind a second.

The last section of the rally through the deserts and dunes Saudi Arabia won the South African Hank Later in Toyota. He referred Mister Dakar Stephane Peterhansel (France) in the Audi in second place. The German manufacturer ended the Dakar with his hybrid cars with four stage victories.

The final day was overshadowed by a deadly accident. A supply vehicle of the team PH Sport collided with a truck of a local. The 20-year-old Frenchman Quentin Lava lee, who controlled the vehicle and worked for the team as a mechanic, to live.

Audi was in very prominent cast this year and with a new concept at the start. In addition to the now-dethronten defending champion Peterhansel (14 Dakar total victory) and the Spaniard Carlos Saint was also the former DTM champion Matthias Custom (Sweden) in one of the RS q E-Tron at the start.

In the motorcycle rating triumphed the Write Sam Sunderland, who secured the second overall victory. It was extremely close to: The Chile ne Pablo Quintanilla had a second 3:27 minutes behind, Matthias Walker from Austria was third — he was 6:47 minutes longer than Sunderland.

Rally Dakar: incident at the beginning

For the third time, the Dakar was a guest in Saudi Arabia. While the dunes and deserts made the participants sporty ahead of a big challenge, the rally was overshadowed at the beginning of an incident.

On December 30, the vehicle of the Frenchman Philippe Boulton had come to an explosion in the start and destination Jidda. The driver suffered serious injuries to the legs, was in the coma in the meantime, but is now awakened and in the home. France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Brian said in the episode of a possible terrorist attack, also the demolition of the Dakar stood in the room.

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The Dakar moved from Africa to South America in 2009 after the 2008 Rally had to be canceled shortly before its scheduled start for security reasons. Since 2020, Saudi Arabia has been driven.