Rally "Paris - Dakar" (1984-1990)

The annual transcontinental rally-marathon "Paris - Dakar".

A cutting of frames to music.

Racing cars drive along the desert sands.

Cars and trucks.

A racer on a motorcycle.

Beautiful landscapes.

Fireworks in Paris.

Photo by Thierry Sabine, the founder of the rally. 1984. The fifth anniversary of the race is celebrated.

Thierry Sabine surrounded by racers.

A motorcyclist starts.

Cars of different brands line up at the start.

A crowd of spectators.

Racers with champagne, hugging.

Mercedes of Jacky Ickx, the champion in the sports car class.

A racer of the BMW team on a motorcycle.

Sahara.

Jacky Ickx's car breaks down.

African landscapes.

The Hogar Mountains.

Bedouins and racers warm themselves by the fire at night.

Jochen Mass and technicians fix a car.

René Metjat's Porsche rushes along a sandy road.

Trucks.

Technicians fix a car.

Thierry Sabine speaks into a megaphone.

Informs the participants and spectators. 1984. Guinea.

The route of the fifth race.

The spectators are African.

Jacky Ickx approaches the lens with a grimace.

The Republic of Sierra Leone, Freetown.

Policemen beat the fans with truncheons.

Gaston Rayet on a BMW motorcycle.

A sports Porsche races.

Sinegal, Dakar.

The Atlantic coast.

The riders and navigators of the teams run to the ocean.

Thierry Sabine is thrown into the water.

A champagne shower for the winners. 1984. The winners' table.

Motorcycles: Gaston Rayet (BMW), Hubert Auriol (BMW), Philippe Fassard (Honda).

Cars: René Metge/Dominique Lemoyne (Porsche 911), Zaniroli Da Silva (Range Rover), Cowen Sayer (Mitsubishi).

Trucks: Pierre Laglio (Mercedes-Benz) 1985. Paris.

The ceremonial start of a new race.

A huge number of spectators.

Cars were fielded by the largest manufacturers.

Audi, Opel, Citroen, Land Rover, Toyota, Porsche.

Algeria.

Sahara.

Rayet on a BMW motorcycle.

Jean-Pierre Gabrot on a Land Rover is the leader in the passenger car class.

Porsche races across the Sahara.

Jan de Rooy in a DAF truck drives along a rocky, crumbling road.

The mechanics of the Porsche team work for the leader Jochen Massa.

The riders dine at night in the desert.

Gabrot in a Land Rover.

Garnishat in an Audi.

Sands.

The shadow of a helicopter.

Guy Coulsol in an Opel.

A bivouac for the night in the desert.

Racer Eddie Hu with a plaster cast on his wrist leaves the competition.

The Hogar Mountains in the Sahara.

Motorcyclists on Hondas.

All-wheel drive cars from Toyota and Mitsubishi.

Porsche 959 – a technologically advanced car in 1985. Niger.

Residents of an African village.

Prince Albert – a participant in the 1985 race.

Fills out paperwork on the back of a teammate.

The crashed plane lies on the sand.

The race continues.

Racer Metke in a Porsche at the finish line.

Unfastens his helmet.

The 12th day of the race, halfway.

African children.

Bedouins.

The 13th day.

Sahara, the Tenere Desert region.

Trucks in the sand.

Racer Jacky Ickx’s car.

Another plane crash.

The Mitsubishi team.

Pajero.

View from a helicopter.

Racer Megge’s Porsche has broken down.

Mechanics are making repairs.

The sea coast.

Spectators.

Karl-Friedrich Capito’s truck finishes first.

The winners rejoice.

They pour champagne over themselves. 1985. Table of winners.

Motorcycles: Gaston Rahier (BMW), Jean-Claude Olivier (Yamaha), Franco Picco (Yamaha).

Cars: René Metge/Dominique Lemoyne (Porsche), Patrick Zaniroli/Jean Da Silva (Mitsubishi Pajero), Cowen Sayer (Mitsubishi Pajero), Fuguirus (Toyota) Trucks: Karl-Friedrich Capito (Mercedes-Benz) 1986. Winter.

A rally stage on snow.

The riders slide and fall.

The Rothmans Honda team riders do not fall.

The Rothmans Porsche team.

Jan de Rooy on the new twin-engine DAF truck.

Thierry Sabine on a ferry.

The coast of North Africa.

The Honda team riders on motorcycles.

Racer Rahier in a Marlboro BMW. The desert.

The metal frame of Henry Piscarola's Range Rover.

Fire, the car burns out.

The supply helicopter crashes and smokes.

Thierry Sabine looks at the crash.

Another burnt-out car.

The Hogar Mountains.

Wrecked cars.

Thierry Sabine talks to the riders.

The Marlboro BMW motorcycle.

Gaston Rayet with a broken rib and collarbone.

Sandstorm.

A section with steep dunes.

Rider Seril Neveu makes a great jump from a dune on his motorcycle.

All the other riders fall.

Cars negotiate the dunes.

Trucks and SUVs in the dunes.

January 14, 1986. Dawn on the coast.

Thierry Sabine on a helicopter.

The death of Thierry Sabine.

The crashed helicopter lies on the ground, photo.

Guinea.

Village and peasants.

The race continues.

A truck rushes past the huts.

Gaston Rayet rides a motorcycle with a broken collarbone.

The finish in Dakar.

The cars of the Rothmans Porsche team come in first.

Medge overtakes Jack Ickx.

The racers embrace.

The bride and Thierry Sabine’s father hold hands.

Many motorcycles drive along the coast.

Trucks.

The table of winners of 1986. Motorcycles: Seril Neveu (Honda), Gilles Lalay (Honda), André Balestreri (Yamaha) Cars: René Metge/Dominique Lemoyne (Porsche 959), Jacky Ickx/Claude Brasseur (Porsche 959).

Trucks: Giacomo Vismara (Mercedes-Benz).

The year 1987. A plastic Peugeot 205 T16 races through the desert.

Professional racing drivers have taken part in the rally since 1987. A burning motorcycle is extinguished with foam.

Motorcyclist Gaston Rahier at the wheel of a BMW. Italian racer Zanussi at the wheel of a Peugeot 205. Niger.

The city of Agadess.

Gaston Rahier comes out at high speed to third place.

Mali.

The city of Timbuktu.

Hubert Auriol is in first place.

Mauritania.

A very long train loaded with ore travels through the desert.

Finnish driver Ari Vatanen leads in a Peugeot 205. Zaniroli, the Range Rover team, is right behind him.

Shinozuka in a Mitsubishi.

Jan de Rooy rushes by in a DAF truck.

The car was specially designed for the rally.

The 1987 winners’ table.

Motorcycles: Seril Neveu (Honda), Edi Auriol (Honda), Gaston Rahier (BMW).

Cars: Ari Vatanen/Bernard Giroud (Peugeot 205), Patrick Zaniroli (Range Rover), Shinozuka (Mitsubishi Pajero).

Trucks: Jan de Rooy (DAF). 1988. The Paris-Dakar anniversary rally.

Africa.

Lots of motorcyclists in the sand.

Fragments of the rally.

Night.

Oil field flames.

Ari Vatanen in a Peugeot 405. A rescue helicopter over the desert.

Andre Malery lies on a stretcher.

Fractured cervical vertebrae, paralysis.

Repairing Gaston Rayet’s (BMW) motorcycle.

Fatal tragedies of 1988: Theo van de Reijt’s overturned DAF. A smashed Range Rover, the second driver died.

Fragments of the race.

The Peugeot technicians at work.

The race leader’s Peugeot was stolen.

Ari Vatanen with his mascot – a soft toy.

Vatanen’s synchro.

The 1988 winners’ table.

Motorcycles: Edi Orioli (Honda), Franco Picco (Yamaha), Gilles Lalay (Honda).

Cars: Juha Kankkunen (Peugeot 405), Shinozuka (Mitsubishi Pajero), Patrick Tambay (Range Rover).

Trucks: Karel Loprais (Tatra) Below is a detailed chronicle of the rallies of 1989 and 1990.