DAKAR 2013 DAY 11: OPPOSITION? WHAT OPPOSITION?

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The Dakar resumed on Monday after a single day’s rest at San Miguel de Tucumán – and that day off must have seemed like nothing when faced with an epic 593km Special Stage. The route took them to Cordoba, and was split into two competitive sections separated by a non-timed link.

Next the surviving competitors return to the mountains: the Andes chain awaits them, followed by the Atacama desert in Chile. Mountains, dunes and stones – lots of stones. Just 96 cars are still running of the 153 that started a week and a half ago. Things aren’t going to get any easier for them in the final three days of the 2013 Dakar. Can anyone stop Peterhansel taking his 11th Dakar win?

DAKAR 2013 DAY 8: LEAD DUO DUEL IN THE DUNES

The 2013 is turning into an epic battle between the duo Stéphane Peterhansel’s X-Raid Mini and the Red Bull Buggy of Nasser Al-Attiyah. With today marking the halfway point of the even the competitors finally get a chance to rest at San Miguel de Tucumán in Argentina before the final half of the rally-raid: the surviving cars, bikes, trucks and quads still have 3,892km to navigate through Argentina and Chile before the finish in Santiago on January 20 – half of that competitively.

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