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MINI celebrates its fourth consecutive overall win at the Dakar Rally // Nasser Al-Attiyah triumphs in the MINI ALL4 Racing // Four MINI ALL4 Racing cars among the five fastest cars.
Tue Jan 20 15:12:54 CET 2015 Press Release
The MINI brand has achieved further success at the Dakar Rally. After covering more than 9,000 kilometres spanning Argentina, Chile and Bolivia, MINI won the world’s toughest rally for the fourth time in a row. Nasser Al-Attiyah/Mathieu Baumel (QT/FR) crossed the finishing line in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires (AR) as the overall winners, having won five of the 13 legs in their MINI ALL4 Racing.
Press Release.
17 January 2015.
MINI celebrates its fourth consecutive overall win at the
Dakar Rally // Nasser Al-Attiyah triumphs in the MINI ALL4 Racing //
Four MINI ALL4 Racing cars among the five fastest cars.
Munich (DE). The MINI brand has achieved further success at the Dakar
Rally. After covering more than 9,000 kilometres spanning Argentina,
Chile and Bolivia, MINI won the world’s toughest rally for the fourth
time in a row. Nasser Al-Attiyah/Mathieu Baumel (QT/FR) crossed the
finishing line in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires (AR) as the
overall winners, having won five of the 13 legs in their MINI ALL4 Racing.
“I promised last year when I was on the podium that I'd be back
to win, and now I'm here,” said Al-Attiyah. “It was very hard to lead
the race from the very beginning and to continue keeping this position
on the long distance. Also because the race was really hard. I'm very
happy about this great result and I want to thank and congratulate all
mechanics and the team for the great job they have done during the two
weeks. The MINI ALL4 Racing is an incredible car and it was again very
nice to drive.”
“Nasser Al-Attiyah winning the 2015 Dakar Rally in the MINI ALL4
Racing is continuing the success story of MINI at one of the toughest
races in motorsport,” said Senior Vice President MINI, Jochen Goller.
“I would like to congratulate him and his team to this fantastic
achievement, which the worldwide MINI community is obviously delighted about.”
“We always knew there would be many unforeseeable challenges on
this 9,000+ kilometer adventure across South America and that the
final result remains unpredictable till the very last days of the
rally,“ said Goller. “On the other hand we also knew that the x-raid
team, the MINI ALL4 Racing and of course all MINI drivers entered the
competition extremely well-prepared and for this I want to personally
thank the x-raid team head Sven Quandt.“
The “Dakar” entrants faced numerous unforeseeable challenges on
the demanding route from Buenos Aires in Argentina via Iquique in
Chile and Uyuni in Bolivia. From classic gravel rallying in Argentina
and winding mountain roads through the Andes at altitudes of up to
4,500 metres in Bolivia to the extremely dry and hot Atacama Desert in
Chile with its towering dunes and fine sand, the “Dakar” tested both
man and machine to their limits. The drivers and co-drivers had to
remain absolutely focused throughout the event.
The MINI ALL4 Racing provided further impressive evidence of its
speed and reliability at the 2015 Dakar Rally. Once again, it proved
to be a great all-rounder. “With now four Dakar victories in a row to
its name from 2012 to 2015, the MINI ALL4 Racing proved once more to
be the car to beat confirming its reliability, strength and agility in
a convincing manner,” Goller said. “Our goal this year was to achieve
another great overall team result and, with five MINI ALL4 Racing
finishing the 2015 Dakar Rally in the top ten, nine MINI ALL4 Racing
reaching the finish line, eleven stage victories with four different
drivers and Nasser winning the world’s toughest marathon rally, we
have successfully met all our targets. During the 2015 Dakar Rally, we
have certainly seen the best MINI ALL4 Racing ever, and I am already
looking forward to seeing it compete in the 2015 long-distance World
Cup in preparation for the 2016 Dakar Rally.”
All in all, the MINI ALL4 Racing won eleven of the 13 legs at
this year’s “Dakar”. Five of these were double victories for MINI. No
fewer than four MINI ALL4 Racing cars ranked among the top five cars
in the overall standings.
Al-Attiyah/Baumel were joined at the top of the table by
Krzysztof Holowczyc/Xavier Panseri (PL/FR) in third place overall,
while Erik van Loon/Wouter Rosegaar (NL/NL) came in a strong fourth
after entering the “Dakar” in the MINI ALL4 Racing for the first time.
Vladimir Vasilyev/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RU/RU) – overall winners of the
2014 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country-Rallies in the MINI ALL4 Racing
– finished fifth. Aidyn Rakhimbayev/Anton Nikolaev (KZ/RU) also ranked
among the top ten, securing ninth place overall. Nine of the ten MINI
ALL4 Racing cars that started the race made it across the finishing
line in Buenos Aires.
Results 2015 Dakar Rally.
01 Al-Attiyah/Baumel - MINI ALL4 Racing - 40:32:25h
02 De
Villiers/Von Zitzewitz - 41:07:59h
03 Holowczyc/Panseri – MINI
ALL4 Racing - 42:04:26h
04 Van Loon/Rosegaar – MINI ALL4 Racing - 43:34:17h
05
Vasilyev/Zhiltsov – MINI ALL4 Racing - 43:45:06h
09
Rakhimbayev/Nikolaev – MINI ALL4 Racing – 44:41:09h
12
Garafulic/Palmeiro – MINI ALL4 Racing – 46:00:34h
13 Zhou/Schulz
– MINI ALL4 Racing – 46:07:49h
17 Terranova/Graue – MINI ALL4
Racing – 47:39:19h
21 Schott/Schmidt – MINI ALL4 Racing – 49:51:23h
MINI ALL4 Racing 2015 Dakar Rally Lineup.
Monster Energy Rally Raid Team.
#300 Nani Roma/Michel Périn (ES/FR)
#305 Orlando Terranova/Bernardo „Ronnie“ Graue (AR/AR)
#306 Krzysztof Holowczyc/Xavier Panseri (PL/FR)
X-raid Team.
#310 Vladimir Vasilyev/Konstantin Zhiltsov (RU/RU)
#314 Erik van Loon/Wouter Rosegaar (NL/NL)
#319 Boris Garafulic/Filipe Palmeiro (CL/PT)
#329 Aidyn Rakhimbayev/Anton Nikolaev (KZ/RU)
#332 Zhou
Yong/Andreas Schulz (CN/DE)
#334 Stephan Schott/Holm Schmidt (DE/DE)
Qatar Rally Team.
#301 Nasser Al-Attiyah/Mathieu Baumel (QT/FR)
Find more photos and videos in high resolution of the Dakar participants in the MINI ALL4 Racing on the BMW Media Website by clicking here.
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