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Old 01-21-2003, 05:10 PM
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Dakar Rally - Mercedes class win

A Mercedes ML430 won the Group 1 class at this year's Dakar rally. The winning team was Strugo-Larroque, they finished in 61h43'12" at an average speed of 85.2 km/h (this was 16th overall - the overall win belongs to Mitsubishi).

Here's a picture of a similar race truck (#256), I couldn't find a good one of the winners (which was #220). This truck is essentially identical, the winner's however had a big red ATAC sponsor logo running down the side (instead of the blue one in this pic).

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trench, any results on the G-wagon? I saw both cars, ML & G, in the final wrap up show.

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Hey Norm,

The G-wagen finished 38th in the same class as the ML (47th overall).

The best a Mercedes did in the truck class was a Mercedes 1935 (a lorry-type truck) finished 7th and a Unimog finished 8th.

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