Dakar rally cancelled
January 5, 2008 by Matt Brogan
One day short of kicking off the world famous Dakar rally comes news that it has been cancelled due to an unspecified terrorist threat.
In the interest of competitor safety, race organisers and the French Government took the dramatic step of calling off the two week marathon but were quick to stress that this would not endanger the future of the event.
Further details are unavailable at this time but as always, we’ll keep you posted.
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*****PRIMO!*****
WOW thats a turnout for the books.
Poor Mitsu. misses out on its most important win!
Still fieel sorry for Andy C.
Cheers
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I dont see how threatenting to kill people and destroy things makes the rest of society feel for their cause bloody stupid if you ask me
Oh no, I saw a preview on SBS and it not going to happen. What kind of terrorist threat is stopping it? Did they get a threating mesage?
Someone will live to play another day
But a Terror attack on a RALLY?
Difficult but smart move – a major incident could have killed it forever. (Mauritian terrorists killed 4 tourists on xmas eve and have directly threatened the rally)
you are kidding. now these terrorists know that they can get their way. bugger em do the rally anyway cos no matter what event it is, terrorism shouldnt stop it
i bet the olympics wouldnt get cancelled
They should turn the rally into a “death race 2000″ style event with high powered weaponry mounted on the bonnet, and support staff dressed in mad max garb.
yes and feral kids that throw steel boomerangs
“LISTEN UP BRONZE! I AM THE NIGHT RIDER I AM A FUEL ENJECTED SUICIDE MACHINE!” LOL!
Well technically a terrorist event can happen anywhere, so what, people gonna hide under the bed? Sounds like politics to me.
Why wasn’t it cancelled right after Sept 11? 2001? 2002? When terrorism was peaking? Why 2008? War on Terror not working eh? Sounds like a complete load!!!
The participants would probably have a greater chance of dying from a crash or some other racing related incident rather than from a terrorist attack.
they dont race in a group where they could all be attacked at once anyway.
omg… if the terrorists behind these threats are on this website just having a squiz at some car reviews or whatnot im happy to give them a time and place to meet up. i will personaly sort them out with anyone else sick of nothing pro-active being done about terrorism. i liked the comment on having the guns and stuff on the rally cars lmao! good idea! these bomb loving bloke dont like us using their oil hey… Hydrogen-powered Paris-dakar 2009?
Huh, who is really kidding here? Mauritian ‘terrorists’ who’ve travelled all the way from their tropical Indian Ocean island to go and kill rally participants in the North African desert?