2011 Dakar Rally
The 2011 Dakar Rally was the 33rd edition of the Dakar Rally and the 32nd that actually took place. It was held for the third time in South America .
The rally started on January 1, 2011 in Buenos Aires and ended there on January 15, 2011.
The race covered a total of around 9,500 kilometers in 13 stages, of which 5,000 were racing kilometers in Argentina and Chile .
overview
The 2011 Dakar Rally was organized by the Amaury Sport Organization . The rally leader was the Frenchman Etienne Lavigne .
Originally, 186 motorcyclists , 33 quads , 156 automobiles and 72 trucks were supposed to take part. But shortly before the start of the rally, the technical inspectors refused permission to start 23 vehicles. 140 automobiles, 170 motorcyclists, 30 quads and 67 trucks took part. A total of 407 vehicles were at the start.
route
The rally started with the opening ceremony in Buenos Aires; This is followed by the untimed first section of the day to Victoria over 377 kilometers. On the evening of that day, the participants went to the bivouac for the first time . The official timekeeping began on the second leg from Victoria to Córdoba. A day of rest followed in Arica on January 8th .
In the course of the race, forest and bushland were first passed in Argentina; the Atacama Desert and the Andes in Chile followed.
| stage | date | From | To | connection | Rating | total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| km | km | km | |||||||||
| prolog | January 1st |
 Buenos Aires
|
Victoria
|
377 | - | 377 | |||||
| 1 | January 2nd |
Victoria |
Cordoba
|
566 | 192 (M + Q) / 222 (A + T) |
758 (M + Q) / 788 (A + T) |
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| 2 | January 3rd |
Cordoba |
San Miguel de Tucuman
|
440 | 300 (M + Q) / 324 (A + T) |
740 (M + Q) / 764 (A + T) |
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| 3 | January 4th |
San Miguel de Tucuman |
San Salvador de Jujuy
|
231 (M + Q + A) / 408 (T) |
521 (M + Q) / 500 (A) / 226 (T) |
752 (M + Q) / 731 (A) / 634 (T) |
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| 4th | January 5th |
San Salvador de Jujuy |
 Calama
|
554 | 207 | 761 | |||||
| 5 | 6th January |
Calama |
Iquique
|
36 | 423 | 459 | |||||
| 6th | January 7th |
Iquique |
Arica
|
265 | 456 | 721 | |||||
| January 8th | Rest day in Arica | ||||||||||
| 7th | January 9th |
Arica |
Antofagasta
|
208 | 631 (M + Q) / 611 (A + T) |
839 (M + Q) / 819 (A + T) |
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| 8th | 10. January |
Antofagasta |
Copiapó
|
268 | 508 | 776 | |||||
| 9 | 11th January |
Copiapó |
Copiapó
|
35 | 235 | 270 | |||||
| 10 | January 12th |
Copiapó |
Chilecito
|
686 | 176 | 862 | |||||
| 11 | 13th January |
Chilecito |
San Juan
|
164 | 622 | 786 | |||||
| 12 | January 14th |
San Juan |
Cordoba
|
123 (M + Q + A) / 349 (T) |
555 (M + Q + A) / 266 (T) |
678 (M + Q + A) / 615 (T) |
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| 13 | 15. January |
Cordoba |
Buenos Aires
|
645 | 181 | 826 | |||||
Explanation: On some stages there were different route variants for the individual vehicle classes and thus also different stage lengths.
Legend: M = motorcycles, Q = quads, A = cars, T = trucks
Incidents
During the 11th stage on January 13th in Tinogasta , in the province of Catamarca , there was a serious accident with the rally car of the Argentine drivers Eduardo Amor and Horacio Alejandro Fenoglio. Your Toyota had an accident at around 6 a.m. local time with the pickup of a local farm worker, who was seriously injured in the collision and later died in hospital. The local is the 60th fatality in the Dakar Rally.
The cause of the collision has not yet been clarified. Apparently another rally participant was not expected, because the Toyota of driver Amor with the starting number 410 was still on the way to the stage finish in Chilecito far outside the rest of the field .
Bottom line
The motorcycle championship was secured for the third time by the Spaniard Marc Coma (KTM), followed by Cyril Despres (France, KTM) and Hélder Rodrigues (Portugal, Yamaha), the quad classification went to the Argentinean Alejandro Patronelli (Yamaha) ahead of Sebastián Halpern (Argentina, Yamaha) and Łukasz Łaskawiec (Poland, Yamaha).
Katari Nasser Al-Attiyah (VW, co-driver Timo Gottschalk ) won the car classification for the first time , ahead of Giniel de Villiers / Dirk von Zitzewitz (VW) and Carlos Sainz / Lucas Cruz (VW). In the trucks category there was a four- fold victory for Russian KAMAZ teams; the fastest driver was Vladimir Gennadijewitsch Tschagin .
