Dakar Rally ’18 to begin in Peru

Paris: The 2018 Dakar Rally will start from Lima, Peru, on January 6 and finish two weeks later in Argentina after passing through Bolivia, organisers said on Wednesday. The 40th edition of the rally and its 10th on South American soil will trace a path down the Pacific coast from Peru into Bolivia before turning sharply inland in Argentina to end on January 20 in Cordoba, organisers said. “We have not raced in Peru for five years, a country that marked competitors at the time and there has been a real desire to go back there,” said course director Etienne Lavigne. However, the El Nino weather system which is bringing heavy rain to Peru is a concern for organisers.