The Daker Rally is one of the toughest endurance events to be held in South America since 2009. The race sees classes including bike, race quads, trucks and autos taking part in a 14 day off-road event that is one of the most exciting in the world.
The rally started off in Mar del Plata, which is just on the outskirts of the Atlantic coastal city in Argentina, and came to its conclusion more than 5,157 miles or 8300 kilometers later on the Pacific coast of Peru in Lima. Competitors of the endurance race call it one of the hardest races and only three of the teams out of the twelve that started from the United States managed to finish the race.
One of the most well-known US racers to take part in the Daker Rally was the legendary biker and racer Johnny Campbell, who was co-driver in a Hummer H3. One of the biggest surprises in the race this year was the fact that the biggest rival to the race was a Mini car and there was more than one of them at the starting line. However, the Hummer H3 came out on top of the minis by over twenty minutes.
In the quad class race, there was hot competition from two siblings who love to take their race quads through the paces. Alejandro Patronelli was the defending champion and he took the first place in the quad class with his Raptor 700 Yamaha. His brother Marcos followed close behind in second place with his identical race quad bike.