Tags: Motorsport Season.
2005 Dakar Rally also known as the 2005 Paris-Dakar Rally was the 27th running of the Dakar Rally event. The 2005 event was 5565 miles (8956 km) long began in Barcelona on 31 December 2004 and passed through Morocco Mauritania and Mali before ending at Dakar in Senegal on 16 January 2005. The course was shorter than in 2004 but was more challenging.