An endurance car race the Dakar rally (thank you in advance for your corrections!) A final phase of the 40th, anniversary Dakar 2018 rally has completed on 20 January in Kordova (Argentina). The competition included five categories, namely: “Bike” (motorcycles), “Quad” (quadrocycles), “SXS” (cross-country motor vehicles), “Car” (passenger cars), “Truck” (trucks). The rally started on 6 January in Lima, the capital of Peru and included 14 phases, professional athletes from vehicle-producer teams took part in it. The course of the rally covered the territory of three Latin American countries – Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Austrian Matthias Walkner from KTM team became a leader in the categoty “Bike”. Ignacio Casale from Chile (Yamaha) won the rally in the categoty “Quad”, Brazilian Reinaldo Varela (Can-Am) - in the categoty “SXS”. Carlos SAINZ from Spain performed Peugeot was the best on the follow-up to all phases in the category “Car”. Eduard Nikolaev from Russian KAMAZ-Master clinched the first place overall in the category “Truck”. This is the third Nikolaev’s winning in Dakar – Nikolaev has already won the race in 2013 and 2017. In the below picture you can see a truck of the KAMAZ-Master team. I took this photo at the exhibition of commercial transport Comtrans 2017, which was held last September in the Moscow exhibition center Crocus-EXPO.