Motorcycles lead as Dakar Rally under way in Buenos Aires
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Spain's Marc Coma, defending the motorcycle title he won last year, got the 2015 Dakar Rally under way in Buenos Aires yesterday.
The KTM team leader set off on the grueling 9,000 kilometer trek through Argentina, Chile and Bolivia two minutes ahead of his main rival, countryman Joan Narreda Bort on a Honda, with Yamaha leader Olivier Pain of France next to set off a further two minutes adrift.
The first stage covers 838 km to the town of Villa Carlos Paz with just 175km of timed sections. Read more [...]