Dakar Series

The Dakar Series is an annual series of rally raid off-road races, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. The series groups together events similar in style to the Dakar Rally and was founded in 2008 after the cancellation of the 2008 edition of the rally.

Rallies

Year	Rally	Route	Bikes					Cars					Trucks
			Pos	Rider	Make	Time	Gap	Pos	Driver/Navigator	Make	Time	Gap	Pos	Driver/Navigators	Make	Time	Gap
2008	Central Europe Rally	Budapest - Baia Mare - Balatonfüred	1	David Casteu	KTM	12:21:14		1	Carlos Sainz Michel Périn	Volkswagen	11:18:08		1	Hans Stacey Eddy Chevaillier Bernard der Kinderen	MAN	11:43:20
			2	Francisco López	KTM	12:24:12	2:58	2	Stéphane Peterhansel Jean-Paul Cottret	Mitsubishi	11:20:09	2:01	2	Wulfert van Ginkel Daniel Bruinsma Richard de Rooij	GINAF	12:17:03	33:43
			3	Alain Duclos	KTM	12:40:53	19:39	3	Dieter Depping Timo Gottschalk	Volkswagen	11:24:42	6:34	3	Aleš Loprais Ladislav Lala Milan Holáň	Tatra	12:36:38	53:18
	PAX Rally	Lisbon - Portimao	1	Ruben Faria	Honda	12:16:39		1	Stéphane Peterhansel Jean-Paul Cottret	Mitsubishi	11:15:00
			2	Cyril Despres	KTM	12:22:44	6:05	2	Luc Alphand Gilles Picard	Mitsubishi	11:18:00	3:00
			3	Marc Coma	KTM	12:24:31	7:52	3	Nasser Al-Attiyah Tina Thörner	BMW	11:21:00	6:00
2009	Silk Way Rally	Kazan - Oral - Ashgabat						1	Carlos Sainz Lucas Cruz	Volkswagen	24:12:21		1	Firdaus Kabirov Andrey Mokeev Anatoley Tanin	Kamaz	28:13:52
								2	Mark Miller Ralph Pitchford	Volkswagen	24:34:13	20:52	2	Gérard de Rooy Tom Colsoul Darek Rodewald	Iveco	29:16:17	1:02:25
								3	Giniel de Villiers Dirk von Zitzewitz	Volkswagen	24:40:30	28:09	3	Aleš Loprais Jaroslav Miškolci Milan Holáň	Tatra	29:56:12	1:42:40
2010	Silk Way Rally	Saint Petersburg - Sochi						1	Carlos Sainz Lucas Cruz	Volkswagen	19:42:02		1	Eduard Nikolaev Vyatcheslav Mizyukaev Vladimir Rybakov	Kamaz	22:56:21
								2	Nasser Al-Attiyah Timo Gottschalk	Volkswagen	19:50:29	8:27	2	Vladimir Chagin Sergey Savostin Ildar Shaysultanov	Kamaz	23:18:49	22:28
								3	Mark Miller Ralph Pitchford	Volkswagen	20:22:24	40:22	3	Firdaus Kabirov Andrey Mokeev Aydar Belyaev	Kamaz	23:24:42	28:21
2011	Silk Way Rally	Moscow - Sochi						1	Krzysztof Holowczyc Jean-Marc Fortin	BMW	5:11:27		1	Aleš Loprais Milan Holáň Vojtěch Štajf	Tatra	8:23:15
								2	Stéphane Peterhansel Jean-Paul Cottret	Mini	7:10:55	1:59:28	2	Firdaus Kabirov Andrey Mokeev Anatoley Tanin	Kamaz	8:39:56	16:41
								3	Alexandre Zheludov Andrey Rudnitskiy	Nissan	8:36:00	3:24:33	3	Andrey Karginov Vyatcheslav Mizyukaev Igor Devyatkin	Kamaz	9:01:51	38:36
2012	Desafio Litoral	Iguazu - Resistencia	1	Cyril Despres	KTM	13:56:54		1	Orlando Terranova Paulo Fiuza	BMW	12:48:06
			2	Kuba Przygoński	KTM	14:01:39	4:45	2	Nani Roma Michel Périn	Mini	12:14:45	26:39
			3	Mauricio Gomez	Yamaha	15:00:09	1:03:15	3	Boris Garafulic Gilles Picard	Mini	14:28:02	1:39:56
2013	Desafio Ruta 40	S.S. de Jujuy - San Juan	1	Kurt Caselli	KTM	18:10:20		1	Nani Roma Michel Périn	Mini	19:50:50
			2	Francisco López	KTM	18:11:03	0:43	2	Orlando Terranova Paulo Fiuza	Mini	19:52:55	2:05
			3	Marc Coma	KTM	18:21:13	10:53	3	Marco Bulacia Benjamin Lozada	Toyota	25:59:14	6:08:24
	Desafio Inca	Paracas - Paracas	1	Pablo Quintanilla	KTM	11:56:05		1	Guilherme Spinelli Youssef Haddad	Mitsubishi	11:29:40
			2	David Casteu	Yamaha	12:05:34	9:29	2	Francisco León Tomas Hirahoka	Mitsubishi	13:22:18	1:52:38
			3	Eduardo Heinrich	Honda	12:27:19	31:14	3	Diego Weber Alonso Carrillo	Toyota	13:39:45	2:10:05
2014	Desafio Ruta 40	Bariloche - San Juan	1	Javier Pozzolito	Honda	10:34:50		1	Juan Manuel Silva Eduardo Lopez	Prototipo	11:29:43
			2	David Casteu	KTM	10:41:10	6:20	2	Rodrigo Moreno Jorge Araya	Toyota	12:14:31	44:48
			3	Pablo Quintanilla	KTM	10:47:57	13:07	3	Martin Maldonado Sebastian Scholtz	Prototipo	13:28:23	1:58:40
	Desafio Guarani	Asuncion - Encarnacion	1	Francisco Lopez	KTM	4:51:09		1	Juan Manuel Silva Eduardo Lopez	Colcar	4:58:27
			2	David Casteu	KTM	4:53:09	2:00	2	Viktor Rempel Vernon Rempel	Audi	4:58:44	0:17
			3	Pablo Quintanilla	KTM	5:01:07	9:58	3	Marco Bulacia Abel Salazar	Toyota	5:15:11	16:44
	Desafio Inca	Paracas - Paracas	1	Claudio Rodriguez	KTM	13:00:07		1	Nani Roma Michel Périn	Mini	13:21:48
			2	José Cornejo	Suzuki	13:00:10	0:03	2	Rodrigo Moreno Jorge Arraya	Wicked	14:59:30	1:37:42
			3	David Casteu	KTM	13:04:19	4:12	3	Diego Weber Alonso Carrillo	Toyota	15:45:09	2:23:21

2015:
Desafio Ruta 40: 17-23 May
- moto winner: Paulo Gonçalves (Honda)
- auto winner: Orlando Terranova/Bernard Graue (Mini)
„ Desafio Guarani: 19-25 July
- moto winner: Kevin Benavides (Honda)
- auto winner: Peter Jerie/Laurent Lichtleuchter (Toyota)
„Desafio Inca: 10-13 September
- cancelled

2016:
Merzouga Rally: 21-27 May
- moto winner: Kevin Benavides (Honda)

2017:
Merzouga Rally: 7-12 May
- moto winner: ? (?)

References