Dakar Rally 2009
The best week of motorsport each year is the Dakar Rally, covered by Eurosport in the UK. Today’s route went through some amazing scenery in Argentina and showed quite how difficult taking the Race Touaregs up near vertical dunes can be. Tomorrow sees the competitors head up over the Andes and towards the Pacific coast. They should go over 4000m, when we were travelling I felt distinctly dodgy at 2500m so it will be interesting to see whether the altitude affects the drivers and cars.
January 14th, 2009 at 9:22 am
So the Dakar has been excellent this year with the South American terain proving as tough as the African. Spoke to my uncle in law who used be a rally driver in Peru and he commented on how tough the Atacam Desert would be.. he wasn’t kidding. Yesterday they shortened the dune route by a large amount and it still was a very long day.