Eight MINI ALL4 Racing to compete in the 2015 Dakar Rally // Joan “Nani” Roma aiming to defend his Dakar title. (press.bmwgroup.com)
MINI might be the favorite to win. To bad they don't have a car/truck to benefit from the exposure. The sponsor off road with no off road product. They don't support racing for products they do have. :confused5: :crazy: :nonod: They wounder why sales are off.
me rally mates from U.A.E are doing the Dakar in a Prado but they said they were starting from Paris on the old route to Dakar so i'm not sure what rally they're doing. The cost is $250,000 which I believe paid for out their pocket....rich folks in Dudai! Steve : any clues what rally they are doing as I can't find any links to it. Last time they did the Dakar was in 2009 UAE team riding high in 2009 Dakar Rally
Stephan Peterhansel switched to the Red Bull camp and is driving for Peugeot this year along with Carlos Sainz and Cyril Despres (on 4 wheels for the first time). Looks like they're taking it seriously. How the Peugeot 2008 DKR can win the 2015 Dakar Rally
Robby Gordon is back. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBvMFNJj8JM"]Robby Gordon test for DAKAR 2015 - YouTube[/ame]
Wow, they really are going to Dakar! I didn't know anyone was still doing that. I'm unfamiliar with the original routes, are they going through the same areas, more or less? Description here: 2015 ROUTE
all news to me! I thought there was only the Dakar in South America. Looks a fun route and a cost of $250,000 per entry I suppose pretty good value? The lads are running a Toyota, car #232. Ziggy used to run a 450BHP NASCAR engined Land Rover back in the 90's
A quarter million just to enter? Yikes! I hope that pays for a lot of expenses like transport, fuel, recovery vehicles, etc, for your car(s) in addition to the other logistics, emergency crews and other overhead for the race itself.
I think that's the total cost to do the rally but when you figure to do around 60km rally in CR the 4WD guys pay out around $3000+ then $250,000 is 10 years of rally in a few weeks. LOL