DaveEllis Wrote:
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If the Rally is not moved to a more secure country
(or set of countries) for 2009 then it's possibly
the last Dakar Rally we will see. But if it is
moved, then it means no Dakar.
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Sure, if they moved it, it wouldn't be the "Dakar" as such, but that would be a small price to pay, at least the race would be run.
And it's not like it hasn't finished in Dakar before, when it once finished in Cape Town, and on another occasion in Cairo, so it's not entirely unfeasible that it could end somewhere else, just it could be on a more permanent basis.
I'll agree about the private teams, being a fan of one (Schlesser), I hope many of them can make it through to next year.