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Peterhansel and Mini take Dakar

16 January 2012 |

After the final 29 competitive kilometres of the 2012 Rally Dakar from Pisco to Lima it is official. Stéphane Peterhansel has won his 10th Dakar rally. 

Stéphane did not take any risks on the 14^th and final stage. He finished tenth, but thanks to his comfortable lead in the overall standings he won with a totoal time of  38:44:56 hours. %u2028%u2028That is how long it took him to cover nearly 4,000 competetive kilometres from Mar del Plata in Argentina to Peru's capital Lima.

Peterhansel last won in 2007 and no other driver has more overall Dakar wins. %u2028%u2028"When you think of how hard it is to win a Dakar, it's incredible that I've been able to win ten of them. It's been a long time, I've been waiting for five years to win again," he said.%u2028

"To take the victory in South America is a huge relief, it ranks among my best triumphs. Winning the rally for Team X-Raid makes it even more special, since Sven Quandt has been waiting for years for this to happen. I don't know what I could do to go one better. Beating this record is going to be difficult - for the others!"

All Mini Racing drivers finished in the overall top ten. %u2028%u2028Nani Roma was second and Leonid Novitskiy fourth, while Ricardo Leal dos Santos and Krzystof Holowczyc claimed eighth and tenth places overall. %u2028%u2028

American Robbie Gordon won the final stage, finishing fifth overall in his Hummer. %u2028%u2028
 
 
Full results below:

%u2028%u2028%u2028RESULTS (CARS, AFTER FINAL STAGE)

		Driver/Co-Driver	Manufacturer	Time
01	#302	Peterhansel/Cottret	MINI	38:54:46
02	#305	Roma/Périn	MINI	39:36:42
03	#301	De Villiers/von Zitzewitz	Toyota	40:08:11
04	#312	Novitskiy/Schulz	MINI	41:06:40
05	#303	Gordon/Campbell	Hummer	41:11:39
06	#319	Alvarez/Graue	Toyota	43:00:38
07	#307	Sousa/Garcin	Great Wall	43:25:10
08	#309	Leal dos Santos/Fiuza	MINI	43:58:04
09	#314	Ten Brinke/Baumel	Mitsubishi	44:06:04
10	#304	Holowczyc/Fortin	MINI	45:54:24
11	#313	Vos/Howie	Toyota	46:03:17
12	#325	Garafulic/Picard	BMW	47:43:11
13	#316	Chabot/Pillot	SMG	47:33:49
14	#323	Errandonea/Debron	SMG	48:07:22
15	#331	Magnaldi/Borsotto	Dessoude	50:54:33
16	#322	Mironenko/Lebedev	BMW	51:46:38
17	#315	Van Loon/Scholtalbers	Mitsubishi	54:03:18
18	#378	Melnikov/Nikolaev	Mitsubishi	54:26:23
19	#335	Zhou/Liao	Proto Dessoude	56:20:04
20	#345	Zhou/Maimon	Great Wall	56:31:00