Friday, January 4, 2008

Dakar Rally 2010: Budapest to be starting point

BUDAPEST � Budapest will be the starting point for the famed Dakar Motor Rally in 2010, a Hungarian government official told the radio station, Inforadio, yesterday.
�We have already signed a pre-contract agreement with Dakar rally organisers. It will be great for the country,� said Istvan Ujhelyi, state secretary at the Municipal and Regional Development Ministry.
The rally would start from Heroes� Square in downtown Budapest, he said.
This year�s rally, the 30th edition of the race, will start in Lisbon on Saturday and end in the Senegalese capital of Dakar on January 20.
The Rally which lasts for sixteen days will be competed over the fifteen stage of the Rally route.

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