Peterhansel wins Dakar Rally for the 13th time

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Team Peugeot Total destroyed competition in car category on this year's Dakar Rally. All three podium steps belong to Peugeot drivers. 

Stephane Peterhansel won for the 13th time this event and became most successful Dakar's competitor ever with seven wins with the car and six on bike. Loeb again didn't succeed to win Dakar but this time he drove with his usual co-driver D. Elena and finished second, more then 5 minutes behind Peterhansel. Third was Cyril Despres, again in Peugeot, more then 32 minutes behind winner in general classification.

Peterhansel lost lot of time on Thursday in incident with biker Simon Marcic but organiser gave him his time back and that led him to win the event.

Another ex-WRC driver Mikko Hirvonen (Mini) had incident on Thursday in collision with a truck and finished Dakar Rally in 13th place more then six hours behind winner.

Complete results can be seen here:

DAKAR 2017:

1 Stephane Peterhansel     Peugeot -

2 Sebastien Loeb       Peugeot 5m32.s

3 Cyril Despres      Peugeot 32m54.s

4 Nani Roma       Toyota 1h15m41.s

5 Giniel de Villiers Toyota 1h49m37.s

6 Orlando Terranova        Mini/BMW 1h51m40.s

7 Jakub Przygonski Mini/BMW 4h12m58.s

8 Romain Dumas Peugeot 4h22m42.s

9 Conrad Rautenbach Toyota 4h39m32.s

10 Mohammed Abu-Issa  Mini/BMW 4h50m50.s

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