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Competitors look ahead to the 2015 Dakar Rally after the 9,000-kilometre route was presented in Paris, France on Wednesday (19th November).

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The 37th Dakar Rally will being in Buenos Aires on January 4th and finish in the Argentine capital on January 17th.

The rally will go through three countries - Argentina, Chile an Bolivia.

The 37th Rally will also see the return of a 'marathon' stage which incorporates drivers spending two days in remote terrain without their assistance team.

Spaniard Nani Roma won the 2014 Dakar Rally for X-Raid team

"For me the objective is to win like last year. To win the Dakar Rally is always difficult but this year it is a little more. There are great cars and brands like Peugeot. For me it is a new challenge. It's a new challenge that I have to get and there is a lot of motivation. I like the car a lot and for me it's motivating."

And his main rivals for the title are likely to come from a formidable Peugeot team of Stephane Peterhansel, Carlos Sainz and Cyril Despres, who have 17 titles between them.

"I had my first race in 1988, the races (stages) that I have been driving have more than doubled and before I started as the driver of the car I had a desire to one day drive for this French company (Peugeot). a very nice exciting opportunity has started, lots of enthusiasm, a good team, from driver and co-driver and everyone works together.