The 2010 Dakar Rally was the 32nd running of the event. It was held in South America for the second successive time, and ran from 1 to 16 January. The Amaury Sport Organisation and the governments of Argentina and Chile agreed to a return to South America for the event in February 2009.
Nasser Al-Attiyah and Timo Gottschalk during the ninth stage; they finished second in the cars class, behind team-mates Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz.
Technical Review at Buenos Aires
Support Truck at Buenos Aires
Nine-time winner Stéphane Peterhansel. Peterhansel finished as the highest non-Volkswagen driver, in fourth place.
The Dakar Rally or simply "The Dakar", formerly known as the "Paris–Dakar Rally", is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. Most events since the inception in 1978 were staged from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal. Security threats in Mauritania led to the cancellation of the 2008 rally, and events from 2009 to 2019 were held in South America. Since 2020, the rally has been held in Saudi Arabia. The event is open to amateur and professional entries, professionals typically making up about eighty percent of the participants.
Thierry Sabine, founder of the Dakar Rally, pictured in 1986.
1981 Dakar competitor Rolls-Royce Corniche.
Tracks through the Sahara desert in Mauritania.
Cars on display in 1993 in Paris.