Dakar 2019 first week footage

Some footage from the first week of the 2019 Rally Raid in Peru that has not been published yet.

Also our personal observation after week 1: Not wanting to take away from the sport per se yet adding up the facts that #Dakar2019 is only in 1 country (are the other countries as Argentina, Chile, Bolivia are tired to pay millions of $'s with no tangible ROI?), barely breaks 5000km on length and has only 10 stages plus the prior the race interview with Overdrive Motorsports Racing CEO Jean Marc Fortin ( ASO "robbing participants" with high fees / https://r.sa-seo.com/JeanMarcFortin ) the Nicola Dutto story (https://youtu.be/MnR8hqv-tsY), the road-book mess ups that screwed everyone the other day and have Loeb threatening to never come back our own experience with extreme unjustified trademark bullying ASO is starting to look like a 2 bit operation instead of the world renowned organization they once were.
Paris-Dakar - as The Dakar was formerly was named - founder Thierry Sabine, he died January 14th 1986 during the raid in a helicopter crash, would flip over in his grave if he seen how much of the original Dakar spirit is left over!