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Monday, January 19, 1998 Published at 12:38 GMT
Sport
French drive off with rally trophies
![image: [ The Mitsubshi team celebrate their victory in the Dakar car rally ]](/olmedia/45000/images/_48752_r.jpg)
The Mitsubshi team celebrate their victory in the Dakar car rally
Stephane Peterhansel has won a sixth victory in the Paris-Dakar motorcycle rally, beating the previous record set by another Frenchman.
Cyrille Neveu had previously won the motorcycle class of the Dakar rally five times.
Peterhansel drove a Yamaha in the long-haul competition and finished half an hour ahead of his nearest competitor overall.
Another Frenchman, Jean-Pierre Fontenay, scored a first success in the car rally.
Driving a Mitsubishi, he finished ahead of his team mates Kenjiro Shinozuka and Bruno Saby.
Peterhansel finished 10th in the final stage of the race, a 265km stretch from Saint-Louis in Senegal, won by Spain's Jordi Arcarons.
![[ image: Stephane Peterhansel: sixth win in the rally]](/olmedia/45000/images/_48752_b.jpg)
Stephane Peterhansel: sixth win in the rally
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