Friday, January 2, 2009

Dakar 2009

Tomorrow sees the start of the 2009 Dakar {link}.
German manufacturers are well represented on the entry list with the works Volkswagens starting the event as joing favourites for outright victory. Below is a list of the top 20 starters (in the car section) plus other notable German powered vehicles.

Cars in bold are pictured in this post, underlined means there's a link through to the team's website.

300 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul Cottret
Mitsubishi Lancer
301 Carlos Sainz, Michel Perin
Volkswagen Touareg
302 Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah, Tina Thorner
BMW X3 CC
303 Luc Alphand, Gilles Picard
Mitsubishi Lancer
304 Joan "Nani" Roma, Lucas Cruz Senra
Mitsubishi Lancer
305 Giniel De Villiers, Dirk Von Zitzewitz
Volkswagen Touareg
306 Guerlain Chicherit, Matthieu Baumel
BMW X3 CC
307 Dieter Depping, Timo Gottschalk
Volkswagen Touareg
308 Mark Miller, Ralph Pitchford
Volkswagen Touareg
309 Robby Gordon, Andy Grider
Hummer H3
310 Hiroshi Masuoka, Pascal Maimon
Mitsubishi Lancer
312 Christian Lavieille
Proto Dessoude
313 Miguel Barbosa, Miguel Ramalho
BMW X3
314 Stephane Henrard, Serge Bruynkens
Volkswagen Buggy HRT TDI
315 Orlando Terranova, Alain Guehennec
BMW X3 CC
316 Leonid Novitskiy, Oleg Tyupenkin
BMW X3 CC
317 Krzysztof Holowczyc, Jean-Marc Fortin
Nissan Navara
318 Peter Van Merksteijn, Eddy Chevaillier
BMW X3 CC
319 Jean De Azevedo, Youssef Haddad
Mitsubishi Pajero
320 Thierry Magnaldi, Guy Leneveu
Buggy SMG Porsche
325 Yvan Muller
Buggy SMG MONO Porsche
329
Balazs Szalay, Laszlo Bunkoczi
Opel Antara V6 RR
330
Rene Kuipers, Filipe Palmeiro

BMW X3 CC
335 Alfie Cox, Jurgen Schroder
Buggy SMG Porsche
347
Ricardo Leal Dos Santos, Filipe Palmeiro

BMW X5 CC
360 Erik Van Loon, Marc Wams
Volkswagen Buggy HRT TDI
361 Albert Michiels, Cedric Legein
Volkswagen Buggy HRT TDI
381
Jean-Pascal Besson, Yves Kornstein

Mercedes M Class
385 Etienne Smulevici, Jean-Jacques Martinez
Buggy SMG Porsche
386 Christian Barbier, Jean-Michel Richaud
Mitsubishi Pajero
387 Eric Bernard, Jean-Noel Cornuaille
BMW X3
395 Javier Herrador, Victor Vico
BMW X5
417
Werner Zoetaert, Katrien Boussier

Audi TT Buggy
455 Mark Dutton, Simon Dutton
Buggy Bremont Audi
492 Daniel Saskin, Damir Bruneruan

Opel Antara V6 RR