The world's most dangerous sporting event.
GPS has assisted enormously in reducing the number of people who get lost during the rally, sometimes for days at a time. Please note, with ten victories, the pictured Mitsubishi teams finished one-two and did not get lost.
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Article Summary
January 17, 2005 It's the world's most dangerous legally-sanctioned sporting event. Every time the event is run, on average, two competitors and an unknown number of spectators die. The size of a small city, the Dakar Rally streaks for 16 days and 9000 kilometres across several countries and time zones at frightening speeds. One of the most significant events in the history of motorsport, it has direct lineage to the first auto race and all the famous city-to-city races which were banned between 50 and 100 years ago due to the carnage. So why is it still running?
