SUMMARY - Stage 14: Coma wins like a conqueror, De Villiers finishes with panache

Cordoba - Buenos Aires
Those used to the Dakar in Africa might still have in mind the last special stage just for the fun of it on the banks of Lake Rose which was not more than 100km long. This one in the Santa Fé province towards Rosario, the birthplace of a certain Ernesto Guevara, was much more than a last easy hurdle. In the bike race, Marc Coma quietly offered a thrid title to Spain by winning his second Dakar. But the last special stage in the 2009 Dakar goes to Portuguese rider Helder Rodrigues. In the car race, Giniel De Villiers finally gets the supreme honor of winning after several years of Mitsubishi domination on the Dakar. For this 31st edition, it is Volkswagen that found a strategy that paid off: the Race Touareg becomes the first diesel engine to win the king of all rally-raids with the second satisfaction of putting another car, the one of Mark Miller on the second place on the podium. The South-African finishes his victorious rally in style with - again - the best clock in the special stage. Robby Gordon completes this 100% English-speaking podium with his Hummer.

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Sports

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• dakar
• sport
• rally
• guevara
• coma
• Rodrigues
• De
• Villiers
• Mitsubishi
• Volkswagen
• Miller
• Gordon
• Hummer