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1981 Dakar Rally also known as the 1981 Paris-Dakar Rally was the 3rd running of the Dakar Rally

Dakar Rally

The Dakar Rally is an annual rally raid type of off-road automobile race, organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation...

event. The car class was won by René Metge and Bernard Giroux. The motorcycle class was won by Hubert Auriol

Hubert Auriol

Hubert Auriol is a former French racing driver and former director of the Paris-Dakar Rally. Auriol was the first racer to win the Dakar in both bikes and automobiles....

Stages

Stage	Date	From	To	Total (km)
1	1 January	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...	Olivet Olivet, Loiret Olivet is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-Geography:Olivet is located in the septentrional bend of the Loire, which crosses from east to west. Olivet belongs to the vallée de la Loire sector between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire, which was in 2000 inscribed by...
2	2 January	Olivet Olivet, Loiret Olivet is a commune in the Loiret department in north-central France.-Geography:Olivet is located in the septentrional bend of the Loire, which crosses from east to west. Olivet belongs to the vallée de la Loire sector between Sully-sur-Loire and Chalonnes-sur-Loire, which was in 2000 inscribed by...	Sète Sète Sète is a commune in the Hérault department in Languedoc-Roussillon in southern France. Its inhabitants are called Sétois....
	3 January	Transportation to Africa
3	4 January	Algiers Algiers ' is the capital and largest city of Algeria. According to the 1998 census, the population of the city proper was 1,519,570 and that of the urban agglomeration was 2,135,630. In 2009, the population was about 3,500,000...	Moudjbara	300
4	5 January	Moudjbara	Bordj Omar Driss Bordj Omar Driss Bordj Omar Driss is a municipality in Illizi Province, Algeria. It is part of In Aménas district and has a population of 3,547, which gives it 7 seats in the PMA. Its postal code is 33210 and its municipal code is 3304....	949
5	6 January	Bordj Omar Driss	Tit Tit, Algeria Tit is a village north-west of Tamanrasset, in the commune of Tamanrasset in central Algeria. It is known for the Battle of Tit which took place in may 1902 between the French colonial empire and the Kel Ahaggar....	605
6	7 January	Tit	Timeaouine	540
7	8 January	Timeaouine	Gao Gao Gao is a town in eastern Mali on the River Niger lying ESE of Timbuktu. Situated on the left bank of the river at the junction with the Tilemsi valley, it is the capital of the Gao Region and had a population of 86,663 in 2009....	740
	9 January	Rest day in Gao
8	10 January	Gao	Tombouctou Tombouctou Tombouctou may be:* Tombouctou Region in northern Mali* The French name for the city of Timbuktu, which gives its name to the region...	412
9	11 January	Tombouctou	Niono Niono Niono is a town and commune located in the Ségou Region of Mali. It is the seat of the Niono Cercle. As of 2004 there are approximately 50,000 inhabitants in the commune, while the town itself measures some 4,900 people. The town is the capital of Niono Cercle, one of six subdivisions of Segou...	570
10	12 January	Niono	Bobo-Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso Bobo-Dioulasso is a city with a population of about 435,543 , the second largest city in Burkina Faso, Africa, after Ouagadougou, the nation's capital. The name means literally, "home of the Jula who speak Bobo," and is possibly a creation of the French who misunderstood the identity complexities...	1080
11	13 January	Bobo-Dioulasso	Bouna	828
12	14 January	Bouna	Korhogo Korhogo Korhogo is a town in Korhogo Department in the north-central region of Côte d'Ivoire. It has a population of 174,000 . It produces and/or processes goods such as cotton, kapok, rice, millet, peanuts, corn, yams, sheep, goats and diamonds. The town was on an important pre-colonial trade route to...	326
13	15 January	Korhogo	Kolokani Kolokani Kolokani is a town of approximately 13,000 inhabitants in Mali's Koulikoro Region.It is the capital of the Cercle of Kolokani, which consists of 10 rural communes . The cercle of Kolokani has an area of 14,380 km² and a population of 163,886 inhabitants....	310
	16 January	Rest day in Kolokani
14	17 January	Kolokani	Nioro du Sahel Nioro du Sahel Nioro du Sahel often referred to as simply Nioro is a town and commune in the Kayes Region of western Mali, 241 km from the city of Kayes. It is located 275 miles north-west of the capital Bamako...	297
15	18 January	Nioro du Sahel	Bakel Bakel, Senegal Bakel is a town of approximately 15,000 inhabitants located in the eastern part of Senegal, West Africa. The town is located along the Sénégal River, from the Malian border and linked by canoe ferry to the town of Gouray, Mauritania. It is one of the three departmental capitals in the region of...	325
16	19 January	Bakel Bakel, Senegal Bakel is a town of approximately 15,000 inhabitants located in the eastern part of Senegal, West Africa. The town is located along the Sénégal River, from the Malian border and linked by canoe ferry to the town of Gouray, Mauritania. It is one of the three departmental capitals in the region of...	Louga Louga Louga is a town in northwestern Senegal. Louga is a cattle market centre and has road and rail links with the port city of Saint-Louis to the northwest and Dakar to the southwest...	143
17	20 January	Louga	Dakar Dakar Dakar is the capital city and largest city of Senegal. It is located on the Cap-Vert Peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African mainland...	96

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