1/17/2011

Team Volkswagen Touareg Won The Dakar 2011. The Peruvian Team Finished 38Th.

  The Dakar Rally 2011 came to an end, and the winners for this year's edition are in cars Nasser saleh AL-ATTIYAH from Qatar with his Volkswagen Touareg with a time of 21:16:16, followed by his teammates Giniel DE VILLIERS  00:49:41 Minutes behind, and the Spanish Carlos SAINZ 01:20:38 hours behind.  The Ferrands with its Toyota from Peru finished in the 38Th. position 54.39 hours behind the leader. A total of 53 cars finished the rally (141 cars started the rally.)  In motorcycles the Spanish Marc COMA with his KTM took the first place, followed by the French Cyril DESPRES with KTM.  Helder RODRIGUES from Portugal finished Third.  The Peruvian Carlo Vellutino with KTM finished in the 91St. position.  A total of 94 motorcycles finished the rally.

     This edition of the Dakar Rally was a though one. In one stage of the rally the first ten motorcycles got lost, and  the Touaregs from Volkswagen proved once again to be an excellent car.  Its drivers drove them very fast, It looked like they did not care too much about the difficult terrain.  The organizers are planning the Dakar 2012 to go all the way from Argentina to Lima, Peru.



2 comments:

  1. Congrats for this great success more power for this team.Lucky you use high quality vehicles.

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    1. Team Volkswagen Touareg had a very big budget in the Dakar 2011. They could not participate in the Dakar 2012. The Mini won this year's rally; But the Peruvian drivers made a very good race with a Volkswagen Amarok.

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