Rally Lisbon-Dakar

[Pirilao]

The Rally Lisbon-Dakar, will depart from the Portuguese capital on the 31st of December.

Including the participation of 27 Portuguese teams and a record number of 240 motorbikes, 188 cars, 80 trucks and 240 assistance vehicles, the departure will take place at the Pra?a do Imp?rio square of Lisbon. The cross-country rally will then head for the south of Portugal, where two special competitions will be held, for the first time in European territory.

 

After crossing Portugal, Spain and Morocco, the rally will travel through another four countries (Mauritania, Mali, Guinea-Conakry and Senegal), before ending on January 15 at Dakar, having completed a 9,043 km (about 5,606 miles) trek.

[Pirilao]

9? Stage: Between Nouakchott and Kiffa

 

Andy Caldecott suffers mortal fall

 

The current edition of the Dakar, to elapse between Lisbon and Dakar, already meets execrated by the death of a participant. Motard Australian, Andy Caldecott of 31 years, to the projection of a KTM, lost after a violent fall during the nineth stage of the Dakar.

 

 

 

[Emakera]

Isn?t it named Paris-Dakar? Although i know that this years? started in Lisbon.

[Pirilao]

Isn?t it named Paris-Dakar? Although i know that this years? started in Lisbon.

The name of the event has always in account the departure place and finishes always in Dakar. In English

 

O nome do evento t?m sempre em conta o local de partida e termina sempre em Dakar. In Portuguese