Dakar Rally 2012 ends in Lima

Lima 2012 is the first destination of the Dakar Rally. The race starts on 1 January in Mar del Plata, Argentina, leads in the course of Chile and ends on 15 January in the Peruvian capital. In the past three years, Buenos Aires was always starting and destination.

29th to 31st December: technical and administrative scrutineering in Mar del Plata

1st January: briefing, starting ceremony and 1st special stage of the rally

8th January: rest day in Chile

15th January: last special stage, before the finishing ceremony in Lima

Argentina, Chile and Peru: The extended rally Dakar 2012, more than 9,000 miles from the Atlantic to the Pacific

In the last three editions of the Dakar Rally in South America was held on a course that had the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires as well as start and destination. 2012, the changes in the desert classic. In future, the Rally Raid leads not only two but by three countries: Argentina, Chile and Peru, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.