The Dakar Rally Is Underway – MINI In the Top Ten
Official release: The 2017 Dakar Rally (2-14th January) finally got underway with Stage 1, Asunción, the capital city of Paraguay, to Resistencia, Argentina. The 454 km route included a 39 km Special Stage that sets the starting order for tomorrow’s (03-01-2017) Stage 2
Following an evening of pre-race celebrations that saw thousands of Dakar rally fans line the streets of Asunción before dancing the night away, the official race start to the 39th edition of Dakar has finally arrived. Eight crews make up the MINI Family for this year’s Dakar and all eight got away from the start line to begin what is likely to be the toughest Dakar for some years.
All eight crews of the MINI Family successfully started and completed Stage 1. The resulting finish order was always going to produce extremely close racing with everyone pushing hard to get good a result. This indeed proved to be the case.
X-raid Team’s Yazeed Al-Rajhi (KSA) and co-driver Timo Gottschalk (GER) – in the new MINI John Cooper Works Rally #306 – finished seventh and the highest placed member of the MINI Family.
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