on the tracks of South America
The legendary Dakar will go to South America for the first time in 2009. The off-road rally will take place in Argentina and Chile from the 3rd to the 18th of January. It promises to be an amazing course with a 9000 km loop, including 6000 specials.
The Dakar knows how to maintain values and a unique spirit. It is a premier sporting competition that mixes great champions and amateurs. The event has become very international over the years, uniting up to 52 different nationalities.
MULTI-FACETED ARGENTINA
Variety marks the many areas of Argentina. With a distance of nearly 3500 kilometres between the Bolivian border and the end of Terra Del Fuego, this country is almost a continent. Its size from north to south as well as from east to west, gives the country many different faces.LONG AND NARROW CHILE
When you look at Chile, hemmed in on one side by the Pacific Ocean and on the other by the Andes Mountains, you see one of the longest countries on the planet. Measuring 4300 kilometres from north to south and with nearly 5400 km of seashore, it also has all kinds of climate. However, its width never exceeds 349 km and even drops to around fifteen kilometres in the south.
