Renault’s compact SUV, recently launched in SA and a car a compact SUV that has impressed the CAR team with it’s off-road abilities, will be competing in the 2014 Dakar Rally.
The Argentinian two-car team first entered the 2013 edition of the world’s most demanding motorsport event finishing a credible 29th. They’ll be returning with a stated objective of finishing in the top 15 of the general classification.
To do this during the 14 days and 9 374 kilometres of competition, the Spanish based team have added further mods to their race cars.
“The team worked hard on both Renault Dusters,” says team manager Hector Ricardo Perez, “and the results we obtained in our tests were very positive. The new suspension performed as expected. It is a pleasure that Renault Sport Argentina has trusted me for this new project. Hopefully everything will work as planned and on January 18th we will celebrate”.
Emiliano Spataro and co-driver José Garcia will pilot Duster #327, while Benjamin Lozada and Javier Milano will be in #340
