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Peugeot Wins Dakar Rally Again
PSA Group’s Team Total Peugeot won the Dakar Rally that ended Saturday night in Cordoba, Argentina, marking the brand’s third straight victory and seventh overall in the grueling race.
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PSA Group’s Team Total Peugeot won the Dakar Rally that ended Saturday night in Cordoba, Argentina, marking the brand’s third straight victory and seventh overall in the grueling race.
Spain’s Carlos Sainz—accompanied by co-pilot Lucas Cruz—drove a heavily modified version of Peugeot’s 3008 crossover vehicle during the two-week trek through South America. The 5,500-mile course included sand dunes, mountain passes and rocky off-road trails through Argentina, Bolivia and Peru.
The Peugeot team beat a pair of Toyota Gazoo Racing vehicles, which finished 44 minutes and an hour and 16 minutes behind in second and third place, respectively. A 10-minute penalty assessed to Sainz for interfering with a quad-bike participant in an early stage of the race was removed before the end of the race.
Sainz—the father of Formula One driver Carlos Sainz, Jr.—won the 2010 Dakar race as part of Volkswagen’s team.
Last year’s winner, Stephane Peterhansel, finished fourth for Peugeot. Austrian Matthias Walkner won the bike category, and Russian Eduard Nikolaev finished first in the truck segment.
Peugeot has dominated Dakar in recent years, capped by a 1-2-3 finish in the 2017 race. Last autumn, the carmaker announced that the 2018 race would be its last as the company focused its resources in other areas.