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Summary Dakar Rally got off to a symbolic start that will take competitors from Argentina to Peru.
The Dakar Rally got off to a symbolic start on Saturday ahead of a 15-day race that will take competitors from Argentina through Chile to a finish in Lima, Peru.This is the fourth straight year that the event takes place in South America. After three years of racing on a loop course that started and ended in the Argentina capital Buenos Aires, the race begins this time in the Atlantic coastal city of Mar Del Plata with the finish 9,000 kilometres (5,500 miles) away on the Pacific coach in Peru.Saturdays processional ride does not count in the timed standings, with the first official leg from Mar del Plata to Santa Rosa to be held Sunday.Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar, who won last years car category driving a Volkswagen, is back this year in a Hummer. Defending bike champion Marc Coma of Spain is back with KTM.
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