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.
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 |
