2011 Dakar Rally
The 2011 Dakar Rally was the 33rd running of the event. It was held in Argentina and Chile for the third successive time, and ran from 1 to 16 January. The Amaury Sport Organisation and the governments of Argentina and Chile agreed to a return to South America for the event on 23 March 2010.
| 2011 Dakar Rally | |||
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Route of the rally across Argentina and Chile. | |||
| Host country | Argentina Chile | ||
| Results | |||
| Cars winner | Nasser Al-Attiyah Timo Gottschalk Volkswagen | ||
| Bikes winner | Marc Coma KTM | ||
| Quads winner | Alejandro Patronelli Yamaha | ||
| Trucks winner | Vladimir Chagin Sergey Savostin Ildar Shaysultanov Kamaz | ||
The rally concluded in Buenos Aires, with Vladimir Chagin of Russia achieving a record seventh victory in the truck division, at the wheel of his Kamaz, thus becoming the most successful driver in a single category in the history of the event. Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar and Timo Gottschalk of Germany won in the car division, giving Volkswagen their third successive victory in the car class. Marc Coma from Spain won his third Dakar in the motorcycle category, and Alejandro Patronelli of Argentina repeated the feat of his brother—Marcos Patronelli in 2010—to win the class for quad-bikes.