The 2000 Dakar Rally, also known as the 2000 Dakar–Cairo Rally, was the 22nd running of the Dakar Rally event. The event began on 6 January 2000 in Senegal and ended on 23 January in Cairo. It had been re-routed to avoid Mauritania following an armed robbery of competitors in the 1999 rally. Four stages of the rally scheduled to be held in Niger were cancelled following a reported terrorist threat. Competitors were airlifted from Niamey airport to Libya where the rally was restarted five days later at Sabha. The rally was won by French driver Jean-Louis Schlesser and his co-driver Henri Magne in a Schlesser-Renault buggy., with the motorcycle title going to BMW's Richard Sainct and the truck title to Kamaz's Vladimir Chagin.
Stages
Motorcycles principal entry
KTM
2 Heinz Kinigadner
3 Kari Tiainen
4 Fabrizio Meoni
6 Alfie Cox
7 Joan Roma
9 Giovanni Sala
12 Jordi Arcarons
16 Carlo de Gavardo
18 Isidre Esteve Pujol
BMW
1 Richard Sainct
5 Oscar Gallardo
8 Jimmy Lewis
10 John Deacon
19 Jean Brucy
Honda
23 Le Blanc
77 Ikemachi Yoshio
Cars principal entry
Schlesser-Renault
250 Jean Louis Schelesser
253 Jose Maria Servia
Mitsubishi
251 Jean Pierre Fontenay
254 Kenjiro Shinozuka
256 Jutta Kleinschmidt
260 Carlos Souza
271 Hiroshi Masuoka
Ford
252 Bruno Saby
Nissan
255 Thierry Delavergne
259 Philippe Wambergue
269 Gregoire de Mevius
Trucks principal entry
Kamaz
409 Vladimir Tchaguine
416 Firdaus Kabirov
Tatra
407 Karel Loprais
408 André de Azevedo
414 Bedrich Slenovsky
Hino
400 Yoshimasa Sugawara
MAN
415 Peter Reif
Stage Results
Motorcycles
Cars
Trucks
Final standings
Motorcycles
Cars
Trucks
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