Due to security concerns.

 

Dakar Rally cancelled for security reasons

Reuters
LISBON (Reuters) - The Dakar Rally was called off on Friday due to security concerns in Mauritania where eight of the race's 15 stages were expected to take place, organisers said.

The 6,000 km rally had been due to start on Saturday from Lisbon.

Four French tourists were killed in Mauritania last month and France warned Dakar organisers on Thursday that "the terrorist risk" could not be ruled out.

The race, originally known as the Paris-Dakar, has been held uninterrupted since 1979.


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Thats a great shame.

Les

 

Indeed it is, I wonder how much money has been lost

 

I've never watched it.... never noticed who won it.... but would consider watching it if there was now a chance of people (especially French) being shot at.... not unlike those pesky sandpeople shooting at the pod racers in Episode I of Star Wars

 

Good old religious extremists, another thing they've ruined!

 

Strange how many totally unrelated things can be ruined by a few nutters eh.

Wait til 2012 Olympics gets cancelled You know all UK haters will decend upon it.

 

i wonder why i couldn't find it on tv

 

If you'd been reading NSR for the last couple of years, you'd know that all the London haters already have done

 

Make it more interesting, armour the vehicles, mount machine guns, missiles and lasers on them and call it

'Dakar Death Race 2000'

or something

 

It's a struggle to find it if it was on.


Now if it were football it would be a different story

 

t'is a shame, i've followed the dakar for the last ten years, always enjoy seeing the pictures as they race through the dunes

 

LMAOROFL

 

This sucks, start of the sporting year in our house. Only found out this morning turning on Eurosport ready to watch some fun and, NIL
Big factory teams not so bad, but the small privateers, they will be heart broken. All that sponsorship money, most of it will already be spent. Will they have to pay it back YIKES

 

Big shame it`s been cancelled as there was a Forrester entered this year.
Watching the program on Eurosport last night about thr cancelation. The big teams did not really seem to care but the privateers were gutted. Most of them got loans to enter or beg for sponsorship which they may now have to pay back.
Not sure if we`ll ever see a Dakar again.

 

They say that the future of the Dakar is not in danger. Have to hope things settle down next year.

Its one of life's adventures and we can't afford to lose events like that.

Les

 

 

I didn't go into town today, I wonder what's happened to all the vehicles parked up? I guess they'd have had to shift their asses somewhere else, they were using up prime parking spots.

Peeing down with rain for the last few days anyway.

 

Now that would be interesting to watch!

 

There was another middle-east rally cancelled recently when 'fans' were caught putting stingers on the course.