Dakar Rally 2011

01. Giniel De Villiers of South Africa drives his Volkswagen Touareg during the fourth stage of the third South American edition of the Dakar Rally 2011, from Jujuy to Calama, January 5, 2011. REUTERS/Natacha Pisarenko/POOL

It used to be called The Paris to Dakar Rally as it was a race from Paris, France to Dakar, Senegal, but after the need to cancel the 2008 version due to security threats in Mauritania the rally moved from Africa to South America in 2009 and rebranded itself The Dakar Rally.

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