The 2000 Dakar Rally, also known as the 2000 Dakar–Cairo Rally, was the 22nd running of the Dakar Rally event. The event began on 6 January 2000 in Senegal and ended on 23 January in Cairo. It had been re-routed to avoid Mauritania following an armed robbery of competitors in the 1999 rally. Four stages of the rally scheduled to be held in Niger were cancelled following a reported terrorist threat. Competitors were airlifted from Niamey airport to Libya where the rally was restarted five days later at Sabha. The rally was won by French driver Jean-Louis Schlesser and his co-driver Henri Magne in a Schlesser-Renault buggy., with the motorcycle title going to BMW's Richard Sainct and the truck title to Kamaz's Vladimir Chagin.

Stages Stage Date From To Total(km)Stage winnersBikesCarsTrucks1 6 January Dakar Tambacounda 594 R. Sainct C. Sousa A. de Azevedo2 7 January Tambacounda Kayes 359 J. Arcarons S. Peterhansel V. Chagin3 8 January Kayes Bamako 711 N. Roma K. Shinozuka V. Chagin4 9 January Bamako Bobo-Dioulasso608 N. Roma J. Kleinschmidt V. Chagin5 10 January Bobo-Dioulasso Ouagadougou 762 H. Kinigadner J-L. Schlesser A. de Azevedo6 11 January Ouagadougou Niamey 733 R. Sainct C. Sousa F. Kabirov 12 January Niamey Sabha Rally suspended 13 January 14 January 15 January 16 January7 17 January Sabha Waw El-Kebir 469 H. Kinigadner J-P. Fontenay F. Kabirov8 18 January Waw El-Kebir Waha661 A. Cox J-L. Schlesser F. Kabirov9 19 January Waha Khofra 647 J. Lewis S. Peterhansel K. Loprais10 20 January Khofra Dakhla 852 O. Gallardo J. Lewis J. M. Servia V. Chagin11 21 January Dakhla606 I. Esteve J-P. Fontenay K. Loprais12 22 January Dakhla Wadi Elrayan722 N. Roma H. Masuoka K. Loprais13 23 January Wadi Elrayan Cairo 139 N. Roma J. M. Servia F. Kabirov

Motorcycles principal entry

KTM

2 Heinz Kinigadner

3 Kari Tiainen

4 Fabrizio Meoni

6 Alfie Cox

7 Joan Roma

9 Giovanni Sala

12 Jordi Arcarons

16 Carlo de Gavardo

18 Isidre Esteve Pujol

BMW

1 Richard Sainct

5 Oscar Gallardo

8 Jimmy Lewis

10 John Deacon

19 Jean Brucy

Honda

23 Le Blanc

77 Ikemachi Yoshio

Cars principal entry

Schlesser-Renault

250 Jean Louis Schelesser

253 Jose Maria Servia

Mitsubishi

251 Jean Pierre Fontenay

254 Kenjiro Shinozuka

256 Jutta Kleinschmidt

260 Carlos Souza

271 Hiroshi Masuoka

Ford

252 Bruno Saby

Nissan

255 Thierry Delavergne

259 Philippe Wambergue

269 Gregoire de Mevius

Trucks principal entry

Kamaz

409 Vladimir Tchaguine

416 Firdaus Kabirov

Tatra

407 Karel Loprais

408 André de Azevedo

414 Bedrich Slenovsky

Hino

400 Yoshimasa Sugawara

MAN

415 Peter Reif

Stage Results

Motorcycles Stage result General classification Stage PosCompetitorMakeTimeGap PosCompetitorMakeTimeGap11 Richard SainctBMW3:22:461 Richard SainctBMW3:22:462 Nani RomaKTM3:23:260:402 Nani RomaKTM3:23:260:403 Jordi ArcaronsKTM3:24:552:093 Jordi ArcaronsKTM3:24:552:0921 Jordi ArcaronsKTM2:04:181 Nani RomaKTM5:28:112 Nani RomaKTM2:04:450:272 Richard SainctBMW5:28:520:413 Richard SainctBMW2:06:061:483 Jordi ArcaronsKTM5:29:111:0031 Nani RomaKTM2:27:281 Nani RomaKTM7:55:392 Fabrizio MeoniKTM2:36:329:022 Richard SainctBMW8:07:5412:153 Heinz KinigadnerKTM2:36:489:203 Fabrizio MeoniKTM8:14:5619:1741 Nani RomaKTM2:27:391 Nani RomaKTM10:23:182 Heinz KinigadnerKTM2:32:204:412 Richard SainctBMW10:46:0922:513 Richard SainctBMW2:38:1510:363 Heinz KinigadnerKTM10:52:2629:0851 Heinz KinigadnerKTM4:13:521 Nani RomaKTM14:27:232 Nani RomaKTM4:14:050:132 Richard SainctBMW15:00:4523:223 Richard SainctBMW4:14:360:443 Heinz KinigadnerKTM15:06:1828:5561 Richard SainctBMW6:14:201 Nani RomaKTM20:52:432 Nani RomaKTM6:15:201:002 Richard SainctBMW21:15:0522:223 Paulo Manuel MarquesKTM6:20:306:103 Heinz KinigadnerKTM21:36:1443:3171 Heinz KinigadnerKTM57:231 Nani RomaKTM21:52:402 Nani RomaKTM59:572:342 Richard SainctBMW22:15:4123:013 Richard SainctBMW1:00:363:133 Heinz KinigadnerKTM22:33:3740:5781 Alfie CoxKTM5:54:151 Nani RomaKTM27:50:562 Jurgen MayerKTM5:55:231:082 Richard SainctBMW28:12:5622:003 Jimmy LewisBMW5:56:141:593 Oscar GallardoBMW28:58:171:07:2191 Jimmy LewisBMW5:02:051 Nani RomaKTM32:53:542 Alfie CoxKTM5:02:070:022 Richard SainctBMW33:15:5321:593 Oscar GallardoBMW5:02:130:083 Oscar GallardoBMW34:00:301:06:36101 Oscar GallardoBMW7:09:241 Richard SainctBMW40:25:25 Jimmy LewisBMW2 Oscar GallardoBMW41:09:5444:293 Richard SainctBMW7:09:320:083 Jimmy LewisBMW41:32:251:07:00111 Isidre EsteveKTM3:35:081 Richard SainctBMW44:03:232 Per-Gunnar LundmarkKTM3:36:141:062 Oscar GallardoBMW44:49:3945:163 Jean BrucyBMW3:36:581:503 Jimmy LewisBMW45:12:101:08:47121 Nani RomaKTM4:28:191 Richard SainctBMW49:04:322 Alfie CoxKTM4:39:4411:252 Oscar GallardoBMW49:37:2032:483 Per-Gunnar LundmarkKTM4:41:1112:523 Jimmy LewisBMW49:58:0053:28131 Nani RomaKTM3:221 Richard SainctBMW49:08:562 Henk KnuimanKTM3:240:022 Oscar GallardoBMW49:40:5031:54 Eric BernardKTM3 Jimmy LewisBMW50:01:2552:29

Cars Stage result General classification Stage PosCompetitorMakeTimeGap PosCompetitorMakeTimeGap11 Carlos Sousa João LuzMitsubishi3:24:491 Carlos Sousa João LuzMitsubishi3:24:492 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi3:25:160:272 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi3:25:160:273 Hiroshi Masuoka Andreas SchulzMitsubishi3:27:322:433 Hiroshi Masuoka Andreas SchulzMitsubishi3:27:322:4321 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega2:03:331 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi5:34:182 José Maria Servia Jean-Marie LurquinSchlesser-Renault2:04:491:162 Carlos Sousa João LuzMitsubishi5:34:430:253 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault2:05:201:473 Hiroshi Masuoka Andreas SchulzMitsubishi5:35:551:37 Grégoire De Mévius Thierry Delli ZottiNissan31 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi2:42:381 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi8:16:562 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi2:43:521:142 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi8:20:593:333 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault2:47:374:593 Hiroshi Masuoka Andreas SchulzMitsubishi8:24:007:0441 Jutta Kleinschmidt Tina ThörnerMitsubishi2:20:451 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi10:39:422 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault2:20:510:062 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi10:44:425:003 Bruno Saby Yves TruelleFord2:21:160:313 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault10:46:346:5251 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault3:55:041 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi14:35:382 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega3:55:120:082 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault14:41:386:003 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi3:55:560:523 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega14:45:4810:1061 Carlos Sousa João LuzMitsubishi5:46:021 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi20:25:332 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega5:47:511:492 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault20:31:486:153 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi5:49:553:533 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega20:33:398:0671 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi57:241 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi21:25:072 Thierry Delavergne Jacky DuboisNissan58:230:592 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault21:32:177:103 Jutta Kleinschmidt Tina ThörnerMitsubishi58:531:293 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega21:33:088:0181 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault5:10:341 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault26:42:512 José Maria Servia Jean-Marie LurquinSchlesser-Renault5:14:544:202 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega26:52:5210:013 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega5:19:449:103 Kenjiro Shinozuka Dominique SerieysMitsubishi26:56:2113:3091 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega4:25:131 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault31:09:092 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault4:26:181:052 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega31:18:058:563 José Maria Servia Jean-Marie LurquinSchlesser-Renault4:28:323:193 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi31:25:2826:19101 José Maria Servia Jean-Marie LurquinSchlesser-Renault6:32:431 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault37:41:562 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault6:32:470:042 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega37:55:1213:163 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega6:37:074:243 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi38:13:4431:48111 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi3:02:521 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault40:47:292 Hiroshi Masuoka Andreas SchulzMitsubishi3:04:141:222 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega41:00:4513:163 Jutta Kleinschmidt Tina ThörnerMitsubishi3:05:112:193 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi41:16:3629:07121 Hiroshi Masuoka Andreas SchulzMitsubishi4:09:001 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault45:02:182 José Maria Servia Jean-Marie LurquinSchlesser-Renault4:11:082:082 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega45:14:3212:143 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi4:13:184:183 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi45:29:5427:36131 José Maria Servia Jean-Marie LurquinSchlesser-Renault3:341 Jean-Louis Schlesser Henri MagneSchlesser-Renault45:06:032 Jutta Kleinschmidt Tina ThörnerMitsubishi3:380:042 Stephane Peterhansel Jean-Paul CottretMega45:18:3612:333 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi3:420:083 Jean-Pierre Fontenay Gilles PicardMitsubishi45:33:3627:33

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