Audi made history on a number of levels last week while capturing the overall victory in the grueling Dakar Rally, as the all-Spanish team of rally legend Carlos Sainz and navigator Lucas Cruz built a winning margin of 80 minutes in capturing the multi-stage, 7,900km charge across the desert wastelands. It was the Sainz/Cruz combo’s fourth overall Dakar win, scored for four different manufacturers, with Audi carrying them to their second victory for the Volkswagen Group.
Sales of purely electric vehicles have slowed somewhat as buyer adjust to the cost and recharging realities, but Audi has gone all-in on non-ICE power. The Dakar winner was the Audi RS e-tron, making it the first victory scored by a vehicle with electric all-wheel drive, a high-voltage battery and an energy converter. The Audi converter runs on residual fuel-based ReFuel. Sainz and Cruz took the lead after the rally’s sixth time stage and held it the rest of the way.
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So happy for El Matador. To still achieve this (with help from his team) at 61 is incredible.
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