project draft 2

Project draft.

Names:

·         Sebastian Flores.

·         Alexis Padilla.

Level: Fourth Industrial.

Date: January 26, 2016.

REPORTING THE NEWS.

The Dakar Rally, formerly Paris-Dakar Rally, is an annual competition of rally raid organized by the ASO from December 26, 1978 and disputed during the first weeks of January or, in some editions, started the last week of December to finish the next year. It is considered one of the rallies harder and the most famous of the world.

Until 2008, long lasting proof, had runners from some city of Europe up to Dakar , the capital of Senegal . For many years the race split of ParisHowever, since 1995 has changed his place of home by other European cities (as Granada, Lisbon or Barcelona ), mainly due to advertising or political, since the real competition not beginning until he entered in Africa. Also the end of the test has not always been Dakar. In 1992, career completely crossed the African continent to finish on Cape TownSouth Africa(). In 2000 and in 2003the race ended in the cities of Cairo Egyptian and Sharm el-Sheikh, respectively, with the pyramids as landscape.

As in 2008 was suspended on the recommendation of the Government of France for possible terrorist attacks, from the edition of 2009 the rally has been developed in the South American countries of Argentina from 2009 to 2016, Chile from 2009 to 2015, Peru in 2012 and 2013 and finally Bolivia in 2015 and 2016.

The four participating categories are cars, trucks, motorcycles and ATVs.

The terrain varies significantly across areas of sand, mud, rocks and vegetation to secondary roads. Test registration is open, which makes it ideal for lovers of the adventure race. The participation of amateur competitors frequently reaches 80% of enrollees. Leading manufacturers of car and truck brands presented their new models of vehicles modified for testing, what has become a competition of manufacturers of cars, trucks and motorcycles.

Accident in the prologue

An accident occurred at km 6.6 of the special of the prologue, in which no. 360 car left the track and 4 spectators injured.
Quickly the Organization has deployed all means at your disposal at the place of the accident: 4 medical helicopters, 3 medical vehicles of the Organization, as well as the reinforcement of 8 local ambulances.

After the first medical assessment carried out on-site by the doctors of the organisation is the rapid evacuation of the injured to hospitals in the region.
The address of the test has decided to immediately neutralize the race. The vehicles will travel to the bivouac in Rosario in pairing mode

Ecuador remains outside

The planning of the season team Ecuador Dakar 2016 does not include participation in the Dakar Rally, which will run between Argentina and Bolivia, in the month of January. Thus informed this team in a press release. The decision was taken after the accident crew, which suffered during the last day of competition of the return to the Ecuador, and caused Sebastían Guayasamin vehicle technical and mechanical damage. Ecuadorian pilot truck overturned on a curve by "failure in one of the rear suspension anchor", as it details the release.

Ten Brinke Does bite the dust to the Favorites

First surprise of this 38th Dakar: Bernhard Ten Brinke with his Toyota Pickup is awarded the special prologue, his first victory in the race. To the distance the 11 kilometers in 6 minutes and 8 seconds, the Dutch pilot is imposed on two Spaniards, Carlos Sainz (Peugeot), second, and Xevi Pons with his Ford Ranger, third, another pleasant surprise from the special. For his part, Nasser Al Attiyah (Mini) ends in fourth position to 5 seconds of the winner of the day.

Thanks to Ten Brinke, Toyota added a fifth victory of the Dakar special