The organisers unveiled this morning the stage cities of the 2010 Dakar that will be welcomed for the second consecutive year by Argentina and by Chile. The two countries have decided to start the year of the festivities of the bicentennial of their independence with the Dakar that will precisely take off from Buenos Aires on the 1st of January for an 8600km journey (around 5200kms

Sebastien Ogier feels pleased with his results following last week-end’s Rally Argentina, a notoriously tough event which the Citroen Junior Team driver took on for the very first time.

 

Ogier did well despite a broken suspension affecting his C4 WRC during the second day of the rally, taking him out of the action.

 

He returned on Sunday to claim seventh place, taking in points for his team and

Ford’s hopes of breaking Sebastien Loeb’s dominance in the World Rally Championship took another blow at the weekend as the Citroen star recorded his fifth straight victory of the season ahead of team-mate Dani Sordo while Mikko Hirvonen failed to finish and Jari-Matti Latvala could only finish sixth.

Hirvonen had been in contention for the Argentinean win until special stage 16 when the engine temperature on his