1st, 2nd and 3rd After Day 1 Of The 2012 Dakar Rally

At the end of the short Day 1 run of the 2012 Dakar Rally the MINI X-raid Team occupies the top three places. Stéphane Peterhansel ended the day in third, Krzysztof Holowcycz ended in second and Leonid Novitskiy took first place. Day 2 "The route from Santa Rosa de la Pampa to San Rafael is 777 kilometres long, of which 290 kilometres will be timed." According to MINI Motorsport,

The field will once again start on relatively solid ground, before taking on the foothills of a series of volcanic black sand dunes.