2012 Desafio Litoral Rally

Sports event June 2014 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 classificationStagePosCompetitorMakeTimeDifferencePosCompetitorMakeTimeDifference11CHI Francisco LópezKTM4:12:301CHI Francisco LópezKTM4:12:302FRA Cyril DespresKTM4:14:19 +1:492FRA Cyril DespresKTM4:14:19 +1:493POL Jakub PrzygońskiKTM4:16:42 +4:123POL Jakub PrzygońskiKTM4:16:42 +4:1221FRA Cyril DespresKTM2:49:401FRA Cyril DespresKTM7:03.592POL Jakub PrzygońskiKTM2:51:30 +1:502POL Jakub PrzygońskiKTM7:08:12 +4:133CHI Francisco LópezKTM2:56:06 +6:263CHI Francisco LópezKTM7:08:36 +4:3741FRA Cyril DespresKTM3:28:171FRA Cyril DespresKTM10:32:162POL Jakub PrzygońskiKTM3:29:48 +1:312POL Jakub PrzygońskiKTM10:38:00 +5:443POL Tadeusz BłażusiakKTM3:37:08 +8:513ARG Mauricio GomezYamaha11:29:24 +57:0851ARG Mauricio GomezYamaha2:38:411FRA Cyril DespresKTM13:16:412ARG Pablo RodríguezHonda2:41:33 +2:522POL Jakub PrzygońskiKTM13:20:25 +3:443POL Jakub PrzygońskiKTM2:42:25 +3:443ARG Mauricio GomezYamaha14:08:05 +1:02:2461FRA Cyril DespresKTM40:131FRA Cyril DespresKTM13:56:542ARG Mauricio GomezYamaha41:04 +0:512POL Jakub PrzygońskiKTM14:01:39 +4:453POL Jakub PrzygońskiKTM41:14 +1:013ARG 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) Desafio Litoral Rally Desafio Litoral Rally Desafio Litoral Rally Category:Rally raid races Category:Rally competitions in Argentina