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THE TEAM
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and its motorsport unit MMSP have
entered four cars and the team’s contracted four drivers in the
2007 Dakar Rally, as the Japanese manufacturer bids to become the first
team in history to win seven successive Dakar rallies and clinch a record-breaking
12 overall victories in 25 years. Mitsubishi entered the event for the
first time in 1983.
Spearheading the Japanese brand’s challenge are the twice former
winners Stéphane Peterhansel and Hiroshi Masuoka, defending champion
Luc Alphand and Spaniard Joan ‘Nani’ Roma, who was third overall
last January.
Peterhansel teams up with regular co-driver Jean-Paul Cottret and Masuoka
is partnered by Frenchman Pascal Maimon, with whom he won the event in
2002. Roma will tackle the Dakar for the first time with Spanish team
newcomer Lucas Cruz Senra, while defending champion Alphand lays faith
in his trusty French co-driver Gilles Picard.
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