Are we ready for 2012 folks? Let’s get in the mood for some new racing action with a video recap of the first day’s events on the Dakar Rally. With VW no longer competing, it’s the Mini team who’ve now moved into the foreground, locking out all three podium positions.

The day’s running was blackened by the death of motorcyclist Jorge Boero, who fatally crashed out at the 55km point.

Day one positions:

Pos  Driver                   Car         Time/Gap
1.  Leonid Novitskiy         Mini          32m12s
2.  Krzysztof Holowczyc      Mini            + 5s
3.  Stephane Peterhansel     Mini            + 9s
4.  Giniel de Villiers       Toyota         + 15s
5.  Robby Gordon             Hummer         + 49s
6.  Carlos Sousa             Great Wall     + 52s
7.  Christian Lavieille      Dessoude     + 1m00s
8.  Bernhard van Brinke      Mitsubishi   + 1m20s
9.  Orlando Terranova        Toyota       + 1m56s
10.  Ricardo Leal dos Santos  Mini         + 2m13s

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1

GO! GO! GO! KRZYSZTOF!

2

grande chaleco !

3

BTW Kuba Przygonski is also a drifter in poland ;)

4

Jedziesz Krzysiu!

5

Motorstorm

6

Any TV coverage???

7

Brawo Holek!! Jedziesz!!

8

Krzysiu Holek jedziesz dalej!

9

I'm impressed with MINI, keep it up guys!

10

could give us info later on electric oscar too, i think that would be interesting?

11

Grande Chaleco López sacando la cara por Chile!!!

12

A Great Wall - oh man! That is funny

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