January 19: Victory for Audi and Carlos Sainz Sr at Dakar
At over 60 years old, Carlos Sainz commands admiration. Injured last year in an accident, the former rally driver redoubled his physical efforts to keep up with Sébastien Loeb. Driving a hybrid 4x4 with technology so complex that Audi Sport assures that it has learned lessons for its future team program Formula 1, the Spaniard pushes his rival Loeb's mechanics to the point of error on the eve of the final arrival of the Dakar, on the banks of the Red Sea. Not satisfied yet, the sixty-year-old who has just signed his fourth success on the legendary event signs in the
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