Ban the Dakar??
Is it worth having the race in a country?
345 competitors and their support vehicles cross the Cardones national park in Argentina, destroy fragile soil, scare the shit out off, or run over local fauna; and of course there are the people from "God's own country" running ofensively loud exhausts (jerks)
All in the name of promoting tourism...Peru and Chile have dropped the Dakar, I wonder how long till it is no more..
Is the Dakar defensible? Does anybody care?
(very roughly, words to this effect were the editorial in La Nacion, one of Buenos Aires's main newspapers, (well respected))
Last edited by Churchill; 9 Jan 2016 at 18:15.
Reason: context
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