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.Reformulan el trazado del Desafío Litoral - DataChaco, 5 July 2012
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 Stage result General classificationStagePosCompetitorMakeTimeDifferencePosCompetitorMakeTimeDifference11 Francisco LópezKTM4:12:301 Francisco LópezKTM4:12:302 Cyril DespresKTM4:14:19 +1:492 Cyril DespresKTM4:14:19 +1:493 Jakub PrzygońskiKTM4:16:42 +4:123 Jakub PrzygońskiKTM4:16:42 +4:1221 Cyril DespresKTM2:49:401 Cyril DespresKTM7:03.592 Jakub PrzygońskiKTM2:51:30 +1:502 Jakub PrzygońskiKTM7:08:12 +4:133 Francisco LópezKTM2:56:06 +6:263 Francisco LópezKTM7:08:36 +4:3741 Cyril DespresKTM3:28:171 Cyril DespresKTM10:32:162 Jakub PrzygońskiKTM3:29:48 +1:312 Jakub PrzygońskiKTM10:38:00 +5:443 Tadeusz BłażusiakKTM3:37:08 +8:513 Mauricio GomezYamaha11:29:24 +57:0851 Mauricio GomezYamaha2:38:411 Cyril DespresKTM13:16:412 Pablo RodríguezHonda2:41:33 +2:522 Jakub PrzygońskiKTM13:20:25 +3:443 Jakub PrzygońskiKTM2:42:25 +3:443 Mauricio GomezYamaha14:08:05 +1:02:2461 Cyril DespresKTM40:131 Cyril DespresKTM13:56:542 Mauricio GomezYamaha41:04 +0:512 Jakub PrzygońskiKTM14:01:39 +4:453 Jakub PrzygońskiKTM41:14 +1:013 Mauricio GomezYamaha15:09:09 +1:03:15
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)