Presenting the route on Friday, organizers said
the 41st edition of the event would run from Jan. 6-17 with a
start and finish in Lima.
"Mapped around the Peruvian deserts, the 2019 Dakar promises to
be one of the sandiest in the history of the rally," the Dakar
website said.
Rally director Etienne Lavigne told motorsport.com that the
stages would be made more technical and difficult because it was
not possible to develop 400km special stages in the available
terrain.
In another novelty, cars and trucks stopped by incidents in the
opening week will be allowed to rejoin the rally from the rest
day but under special conditions and in a separate
classification.
This year's edition started in Lima and ended in Argentina after
running through Bolivia. Organizers had hoped initially to
schedule the 2019 edition from Chile through Peru to Ecuador.
The Dakar, which started out as a race from Paris across the
Sahara to the Senegalese capital Dakar, moved to South America
in 2009 for security reasons.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Toby Davis)
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