Dakar Rally 2013

[alleskids]

you are refering to the sentence: ""It’s a week into stage one of the build of the latest version of the off road racing Imperial Toyota Hilux pickup in which Giniel de Villiers and Dirk von Zitzewitz will aim to win the Dakar Rally in South America in the next three years"" ?

I thing it only points out that De Villiers is the high profile front man of the Dakar assault

[kober]

I was referring to "Toyota Motorsport’s two-car team that will contest the 2013 Dakar Rally [...] will also include an uprated version of the 2012 Hilux for [...] Duncan Vos [...] and Rob Howie".

[alleskids]

oeps, I missed that last parts. yes it reads of only 1 brand new Toyota, for De Villiers

[alleskids]

Peter van Merksteijn senior with Eddy Chevallier will be driving a Toyota Hilux of Overdrive racing in the Dakar rally

[kober]

Are Overdrive doing some development work on the Hilux? Or will they race the 2012 version?

[ZequeArgentina]

Are Overdrive doing some development work on the Hilux? Or will they race the 2012 version?

As far as I know for Dakar 2013:

1- X-Raid: New BMW production 3.0 biturbo engine both for Mini and BMW X3
Peterhansel (Mini)
Nani Roma (Mini)
Holowcyk (Mini)
All Mutawei??? Dos Santos (??) (Mini) (my guess: just Dos Santos or both of them)
Terranova (X3)
Garafulic (X3)
XXX (X3)

2- Imperial Toyota: New 5.0 V8 Gasoline engine (Lexus IF-S sourced), new composite body, extra wide
Giniel De Villers
Duncan Vos

3- Overdrive Racing (Toyota Hilux) same base as above, new and rebumped Hilux:
Lucio Alvarez (new Hilux)
Nuncio Cuffaro (2012 Hilux)
Peter Van merkenstijn Sr.
Carlos Sainz (??) Nasser Al Atiyah (?? only if his own project does not fulfill his expectations)
Korda (??)
Ruta (??)
XXX

(here are a total of 9 Hilux built based on Hallspeed design)

4- Robby Gordon Racing
Gordon (Hummer)
XXXX (Hummer)

5- All Atiyah Buggy: Californian buil 2wd 7litre (GM gasoline engine
Nasser
XXX (my own specualtion: Mark Miller)

6- G Force (will they be there this time??)
Boris Gadasin
Vasilev

7- Team Dessoude

8 - SMG

9- Team Toyota Autobody (regular winner of T2 cathegory)
Mitsushahsi
Gibon

10 - SAM (???)
M. Kahle?

11- Isuzu (3.0 turbo diesel)
Gargland

[ZequeArgentina]

Have to add:

10- SMG: New Buggy with V8 Engine
Chicherit

[Co-driven]

Probably add to that list Brazilian Guilherme Spinelli, with the Mitsubishi Racing Lancer.

I know he isn't a contender for the win, but for sure he will be in the Top 10...

[ZequeArgentina]

Probably add to that list Brazilian Guilherme Spinelli, with the Mitsubishi Racing Lancer.

I know he isn't a contender for the win, but for sure he will be in the Top 10...

You are right, I forgot about all the ex Ralliart Mitsubishio RacingLancers:

Mitsubishi Brazil: (DO YOU KNOW WHICH ENGINE IS HE NOW RUNNING)
Spinelli

Mitsubishi from the Nederlands Riwald - X Dakar (Now powered by Ford Mustang V8 5.0)
Ten Brinke
Van Loon
Third one (TBC)

[kober]

There will be six Minis and three (or four) BMWs from X-raid, according to Sven Quandt. Minis will be driven by Peterhansel, Roma, Holowczyc, Novitskiy, Al-Mutawei (2012 World Cup winner) and possibly by Dos Santos. That would leave BMWs to Terranova, Garafulic and one (or two) another driver.