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This year the route takes the competitors to the extreme northern regions of Argentina and Chile, to the Bolivian and Peru borders, just until the rest day at Arica, before heading back towards Buenos Aires. The design of the route, consisting of 9000kms of roads, tracks and dunes, including nearly 5000 of competition, was done with the idea of saving the more difficult ... Full story

The president of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev blessed the rally for lucky way and gave start for the race at Saturday's shiny day. Inspirited with the welcome atmosphere South African Giniel De Villiers from Volkswagen won the prologue just eight month after he won the Dakar. In the truck race the fastest was Dakar champion too : Firdaus Kabirov. Full story