Dakar Rally 2018 – MINI Family ready and eager to start Dakar

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Seven #Mini crews to contest Dakar 2018.
Race debut of the all-new #Mini #johncooperworks Buggy.
Four #Mini #johncooperworks #rally also spearhead #Mini challenge to win Dakar – the greatest cross-country #rally spectacle.

Munich. The start of the 40^th edition of Dakar – the tenth in its present South America theatre – is now only hours away. Shakedown testing is complete and the #Mini family of seven international two-man race crews, together with the large support team from #Mini Motorsport partner X-raid, are fully prepared to undertake the challenges the Dakar will undoubtedly present throughout its 9,000 km distance that spans 14 race stages.

The 2018 Dakar takes place across three countries with the starting point in Lima, Peru on Saturday 6^th January 2018, before crossing into Bolivia and onwards to the finish line 14 stages later in Argentina on 20 January 2018. Each country will feature race stages that take place across natural splendour, which also happens to host the toughest cross-country #racing conditions known to man and machine.

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