The organization reported that the tour will depart from Lima and ends in Santiago.Cross the Andes twice and will stage more than 3,000 meters
"South America again host an exceptional Dakar this year and next return to the three countries where we were in January," said event director, Etienne Levine, an act whichformalized the venues for next year, in Paris.
The prestigious competition cars and motorcycles, which was annulled in 2008 for fear of the terrorist threat in its traditional route in northwest Africa, moved to South Americasince 2009. The subcontinent has already received four editions successful and prepared for the fifth row.
For the first time, the Pacific is the main protagonist, starting and finishing in that area of the continent for the first time without Argentina serve as a starting point or climax of the rally: Lima, the arrival of the Dakar-2012, this time the output will and Chile in the capitalSantiago, will host the end of the test.
Credit APAs a major attraction in the new edition, the rally will feature a special timed to more than3,000 meters and cross the Andes, the Cordillera between Chile and Argentina twice,first from west to east and then in reverse .
Other big news that the difficulties will start right from the start, with a desert journey that requires immediate acclimatization to extreme conditions, since 5 January, a date lags behind previous years, when the rally began in the festivities beginning of the year.
Credits to Infobae.com
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