Dakar - 2011

Marcos Patronelli finished third on the final stage of the Dakar quad class to secure overall victory for a second time in three years.

The 2013 Dakar Rally will start in Peru for the first time and end in Chile after crossing the Andes into Argentina.

France's Stephane Peterhansel eased to a 10th Dakar Rally victory as he coasted home on the final stage to win the cars classification.

Cyril Despres won the bikes classification of the Dakar Rally after an uneventful final stage.

The final day of the Dakar 2012 was marred by the reported death of a Colombian fan who crashed when following the race on his bike.

Argentine Alejandro Patronelli successfully defended his Dakar Rally quads title after finishing third on the final stage.

Gerard De Rooy won the trucks section in the Dakar Rally after easing to sixth on the final stage.

See the photo gallery from the 2012 Dakar Rally.

Stephane Peterhansel is cruising towards a 10th Dakar Rally victory after winning Saturday's penultimate stage from Nasca to Pisco.

Cyril Despres is in charge of the 2012 Dakar bike race as Marc Coma's hopes were dashed by a gearbox problem.

Tomas Maffei won the penultimate stage of the Dakar quad race, but Alejandro Patronelli is cruising towards defending his title.

Russia's Andrey Karginov took the penultimate stage of the Dakar 2012 truck race, but Gerard De Rooy still leads.

Marc Coma went back in the overall lead of the Dakar bike race as he won the 12th stage of the race.

Robby Gordon won the 12th stage of the Dakar rally cars race as Stephane Peterhansel saw his lead trimmed.

Alejandro Patronelli remains on course to defend his Dakar Rally quad title after staying out of trouble during stage 12

Gerard De Rooy further extended his overall lead at the Dakar Rally as he took his fifth stage win of the 2012 race.

Stephane Peterhansel moved another step closer to winning the Dakar Rally by winning stage 11 ahead of main rival Nani Roma.

Kamaz completed their second stage win in as many days as Russian Andrey Karginov took stage 11 with the Dakar Rally arriving in Peru.

Race leader Cyril Despres eked out some more time over rival Marc Coma after stage 11 of the Dakar Rally.

Dakar leader Alejandro Patronelli won special stage 11 to extend his colossal lead in the rally over his brother Marcos.