first time in Latin America - starting in Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires - Around 500,000 spectators have the last Friday in the Argentine Buenos Aires to the participants for the first time in South America cheered held Dakar Rally. The motorcycles, ATVs, quads and trucks were driving on the 15-mile round trip in honor of the metropolis through a closed lane for the entire journey from man. On Saturday, the total of about 530 participants were in the center of the city at the start. The rally takes on 3 to 18 January, the track is more than 9,600 kilometers through Argentina and Chile.
Instead of the Sahara, it goes through the damp and sometimes muddy Pampa, over gravel slopes of the Patagonian steppes, sand dunes in the deserts of Voranden, twice up to 4700 meters high Andean passes and the driest desert in the world, the Atacama in northern Chile. While 80 percent of the lead track on roads and paths, and only the rest is really driven through the area. But who knows Argentine and Chilean branch lines, the pilot can only wish good luck.
Terrorist threats in Mauritania had in the last moment, a cancellation of the Dakar 2008 and the move made it necessary to South America. Only in Argentina are now 22,000 police officers provide security. The authorities have set themselves according to their own information on everything from terrorist attacks on trigger-happy farmer to politically motivated-distance blockades. All the way over 13,000 Miles from Le Havre via the Atlantic Ocean to the port city of Buenos Aires Zárate in the north has covered most of the participants at the 37,000-ton cargo ship Grand Benelux. Only VW, BMW and Mitsubishi were flying in their vehicles.
to rally start in the heart of Buenos Aires, at the 67.5-meter-high obelisk on the most widest street in the world, the Avenida 9 de Julio was for the pilots nor the Highway Code. Only in the Pampa, the endless fertile plain around the megacity, the pilots could correct the gas.
out a large part of the circuit on private land. About 7000 owners signed letters of commitment, that the gates open between the fences and the track of cattle herds are free. Behind the baggage train a team that goes to private property damage repair, register and pay compensation to.
beginning and end: At the Obelisk in Buenos Aires heard the rally on 18 January again. Determined again in cheers of thousands of Argentines.
The Dakar route:
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