2011 Dakar Rally

2011 Dakar Rally
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Route of the rally across Argentina and Chile.
Host country Argentina
 Chile
Results
Cars winnerQatar Nasser Al-Attiyah
Germany Timo Gottschalk
Volkswagen
Bikes winnerSpain Marc Coma
KTM
Quads winnerArgentina Alejandro Patronelli
Yamaha
Trucks winnerRussia Vladimir Chagin
Russia Sergey Savostin
Russia Ildar Shaysultanov
Kamaz
Defending car class winner Carlos Sainz's Volkswagen Race Touareg during the twelfth stage of the rally. Sainz was unable to repeat his victory of 2010, finishing third behind teammates Nasser Al-Attiyah and Giniel de Villiers.

The 2011 Dakar Rally was the 33rd running of the event. It was held in Argentina and Chile for the third successive time, and ran from 1 to 16 January. The Amaury Sport Organisation and the governments of Argentina and Chile agreed to a return to South America for the event on 23 March 2010.[1]

The rally concluded in Buenos Aires, with Vladimir Chagin of Russia achieving a record seventh victory in the truck division, at the wheel of his Kamaz, thus becoming the most successful driver in a single category in the history of the event.[2] Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar and Timo Gottschalk of Germany won in the car division, giving Volkswagen their fourth successive victory in the car class.[3] Marc Coma from Spain won his third Dakar in the motorcycle category,[3] and Alejandro Patronelli of Argentina repeated the feat of his brother—Marcos Patronelli in 2010—to win the class for quad-bikes.[4]

  1. ^ "Argentina-Chile, Act III". Dakar Rally. Amaury Sport Organisation. 23 March 2010. Retrieved 25 April 2010.
  2. ^ "Medvedev congratulates KAMAZ-Master team on Dakar Rally victory". ITAR-TASS. Moscow: Information Telegraph Agency of Russia. 16 January 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Al-Attiyah & Coma win Dakar Rally". Independent Online. Independent News & Media. South African Press Association. 16 January 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  4. ^ "Patronelli wins quad bike category of Dakar 2011". Buenos Aires Herald. Buenos Aires: Editorial Amfin S.A. 15 January 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2011.