How Alpine is helping Loeb's bid for Dakar history with an unlikely challenger

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The Dakar Rally returns to provide one of motorsport’s toughest tests for human and machine in January, with Saudi Arabia again hosting the challenge. It may not be the event it once was when run through Africa to the Senegalese capital [the event’s name gives it away] but the test remains one that requires ultimate performance and robustness to overcome.
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