The 2012 Desafio Litoral Rally was a first edition of rally raid endurance race held in Argentina from 23–28 July 2012. It was the first Dakar Series rally held in South America. The itinerary contained 3,454 kilometres of roads and tracks in total, including 1,840 of timed sections. It was organized by the Amaury Sport Organisation.
Itinerary
The race was held in public roads in the northeastern Argentine provinces of Misiones, Corrientes and Chaco. The original route included two stops at Asunción and Encarnación in Paraguay, but were cancelled prior to the event because of political instability after the impeachment of the president.
23 July: Iguazú – Posadas
24 July: Posadas – Posadas
25 July: Posadas – Bella Vista
26 July: Bella Vista – Corrientes
27 July: Corrientes – Resistencia
28 July: Resistencia – Resistencia
Stage results
Bikes
Results
Bikes
Cyril Despres (KTM) 13:56:54
Jakub Przygoński (KTM) +4:45
Mauricio Gomez (Yamaha) +1:03:15
Pablo Rodríguez (Honda) +1:33:38
Javier Pizzolito (Honda) +1:35:52
Cars
Orlando Terranova/Paulo Fiuza (BMW) 12:48:06
Nani Roma/Michel Périn (Mini) +26.39
Boris Garafulic/Gilles Picard (BMW) +1:39:56
Omar Gandara/Mauricio Jeromin (Toyota) +3:15:32
Roberto Recalde/Carlos Zarza (Higher) +3:26:26
Quads 4x2
Sergio Lafuente
Gastón González
Sebastián Foche
Francisco Bartucci
Germán Wolenberg
Quads 4x4
Daniel Mazzucco
Ezio Blangino
Claudio Cavigliasso
Pablo Ríos
Pablo Bustamante
UTV
Omar Yoma
Alberto Depetris
Pablo Depetris
Hugo Zucchini
Carlos González
References
External links
dakar.com (multilingual)