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The 2001 Dakar Rally also known as the 2001 Paris-Dakar Rally was the 23rd running of the Dakar Rally event. The format was revised to reduce the amount of airborne assistance to competitors in favour of assistance vehicles. The 2001 rally was 6600 miles (10600 km) long and began in Paris France on New Year’s Day passing through Spain Morocco Mauritania Mali before finishing at Dakar in Senegal.