He Dakar Rally will start rolling on January 5 with its full caravan in the first big event of a year full of great sporting events and, as always, the raid figures confirm the scale of this competition where cars, quads, motorcycles and trucks was cast upon the sands. .
They will do it for the fifth time in a row on the railways of Saudi Arabia, in an edition that will be held from January 5 to 19 and will have a 60% new route, in addition to a 48-hour period in which the pilots will have. spend the night in sleeping bags and tents.
The Dakar became relevant in the following numbers from this edition:
7,891 KILOMETERS: The competition will take place over 7,891 kilometers across Saudi Arabia in twelve stages and a prologue. Of the nearly 8,000 kilometers that pilots and co-pilots will travel, a total of 4,727 will be timed.
778 PARTICIPANTS: The Dakar reached a record number of participants, with a total of 778 participants including drivers and co-drivers, of which 135 will be novices. There will be a total of 187 teams. Among them, there will be 129 legends.
46 WOMEN: A total of 46 women will compete in the most important raid in the world. This represents progress compared to 2020, the first edition held in Saudi Arabia, when there were only 12 (representing 2.10% of the total participants) female competitors in the Dakar. In 2024 it already represents 5.91% of the total competition.
434 VEHICLES: More than 400 vehicles will be launched on the sands of Saudi Arabia, divided into 137 motorcycles, 10 quads, a total of 72 Ultimates (the car category, in which, for example, the Spaniard Carlos Sainz participated) and 46 that truck. There will be another 42 Challenger cars and 36 SSVs, slightly smaller than the Ultimates, while there will be 66 classic cars and 14 Dakar Classics participating in the Dakar Classic test, adapted to vintage cars.
72 NATIONALITY: There will be a total of 72 nationalities present in this Dakar: 163 French, 119 Spanish and 72 Italians monopolize the podium, in a year where the Spanish will be the second largest nationality.
A 48 HOUR PHASE: A stage of 48 hours and more than 600 timed kilometers where runners must stop at dusk, sleep in a sleeping bag in the middle of the dunes and ride again at dawn in a full new stage concept.
4,200 HOURS OF TV BROADCAST: The Dakar has been broadcast for at least 4,200 hours on television programs. In total, 190 countries broadcast the images through some 70 television channels. This year, the organization hopes to surpass those figures.
560 JOURNALISTS AND 3,000 ‘NOMADS’: More than 560 journalists are recognized again in 2024, where Dakar will have more than 3,000 ‘nomads’: mechanics, technicians, journalists, doctors and service personnel live throughout the rally in the Dakar mobile camp and move every day -days in military aircraft or by road from the point of departure to the point of arrival.
120 MEDIA FROM 33 NATIONALITIES: More than 120 media from 33 nationalities will cover this new edition of the Dakar. In the last one, during the fourteen days of the competition, the organization registered up to 266 million video views through various social networks.
Source: La Verdad
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