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AS THE EVENT’S OFFICIAL TIMEKEEPER, TUDOR PROVIDED ENGRAVED
TUDOR RANGER WATCHES TO RACE OFFICIALS AND WINNERS.
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4 p E U WOU y
o a sa E U WOU eal F a O A D s h second wherever you can,” explains Cole Pennington, communications officer
4 p E U WOU udo timekeeper. “At Dakar, every single driver will say they would be ecstatic just
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on their mile ge, nterp e e r h 0 ing d re
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o e T k x kilo tres ” t nd “ x t s nd wa h, left at tree, all w uneve , u famili r terr i . “It’s ma ver s nat t, s b t r u oug Sand
is a consta t, but the ands ape itsel y very di is actual ere her ust
fferent sta es of the r ce. T ere her ust
s one lat r tage ere other orldl dune , a l u d e the first isha stag has k,
wi h es.”
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g arant es a lea majo one major pset eac year. ather .
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t m from co pleti g the
race. Ni u e s d en
Loeb uff red a simila incid nt and was ke ise to he for na ec ec nd
of he fi na stag the mot y c ew of du ty, bat ere po an te ook the po ium nclu ed h p s a b e i n t ustra ian dir bike pr pio , a . D tu pi , . ned-rally champio pio , a . D d an Arge ine hus and e
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c lebratio s and eda s, the w nner’s circle w and not jus becaus Sa di Arabian l w forbids pagne
sh wer. “Mos pe ple cou d ’t even te l yo who n ce cou d i ook t up, but it’s not o uch a out p son i , and
that’ w o at ma e it ntere ting w o udor t —
it’s tr tan he Dakar indo trin ti er n is u der a tandi n i th t if r i y it be ot of acr fic s to be out ot her pa , an a l T ou wan to eel th s
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