2019 Dakar Rally

2019 Dakar Rally
Part of the Dakar Rally
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Host country Peru
Dates run6–17 January 2019
StartPeru Lima
FinishPeru Lima
Stages10
Stage surfaceGravel, dirt, sand
Results
Cars winnerQatar Nasser Al-Attiyah
France Matthieu Baumel
Toyota Gazoo Racing SA
Bikes winnerAustralia Toby Price
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing
Quads winnerArgentina Nicolás Cavigliasso
Drag'on Rally
Trucks winnerRussia Eduard Nikolaev
Russia Evgenii Iakovlev
Russia Vladimir Rybakov
Kamaz Master
UTVs winnerChile Francisco López Contardo
Chile Álvaro León
South Racing Can-Am

The 2019 Dakar Rally was the 41st edition of the event and the eleventh successive year that the event was held in South America. The event started in Lima, Peru on 6 January and finished there on 17 January after 10 stages of competition, making it the first Dakar Rally to be held in a single country.[1]

Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah won his third Dakar in the Cars division for Toyota, in the process becoming the second person to win the Dakar Rally with three different vehicle manufacturers (other wins came with Volkswagen in 2011 and Mini in 2015).[2] In the Bikes division, Toby Price of Australia won his second Dakar Rally despite suffering from a fractured wrist during the event.[3] The Kamaz team of Eduard Nikolaev, Evgenii Iakovlev and Vladimir Rybakov won their third consecutive title in the Trucks division.[4]

This would mark the final time the Dakar Rally was held in South America. From 2020 onwards, the rally was held in Saudi Arabia.[5]

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  3. ^ "Brave Price wins second Dakar title with stage victory". Speedcafe.com. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Nikolaev and Kamaz win third Dakar in a row". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  5. ^ Lillo, Sergio (4 April 2019). "Dakar signs five-year agreement with Saudi Arabia". motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved 2 May 2018.