Race Report 2018

Team Breaks Three Records With its Ninth Consecutive Win in the Under 10-litre Class, 27th Consecutive Finish, and Yoshimasa Sugawara’s 35th Entry
— Team also finishes 6th in the overall Trucks category, up from last year —

2018, 40th Dakar Rally 2018 Peru-Bolivia-Argentina

2018

HINO TEAM SUGAWARA entered two HINO500 Series trucks in Dakar Rally 2018, which kicked off on Jan. 6, 2018 and finished on Jan. 20, taking teams through three countries starting off in Peru and on to Bolivia before reaching the finish line in Argentina.
Driver Teruhito Sugawara won the Under 10-litre Class championship in the Trucks category for a ninth straight Class win, breaking the team’s record. Thanks to the excellent mobility of the HINO500 Series truck as well as Teruhito Sugawara’s driving skills and extensive rally experience. The medium-duty truck also entered the Trucks category where all of the top teams fielded heavy-duty trucks that were powered by engines with displacements exceeding 10 litres. They finished at 6th place overall in the Trucks category―up from 8th place last year.

2018

The “Ironman of Dakar,” Yoshimasa Sugawara, broke the Dakar Rally record and world record this year with his 35th consecutive entry since his first entry in the Bikes category of the Paris-Dakar Rally (as it was called then) in 1983. While his truck was bogged down in a dune in stage 2 and forced to retire early in the race this year, Yoshimasa Sugawara says, “I am going to leave all of that behind and get to work to put on a good race next year. The course design was quite challenging this year and I think Teruhito did a great job,” praising his son as he renewed his ambitions for next year’s event.

2018

With dunes in the early half of the rally, highlands in the mid-section, and long stages towards the end, this year’s rally challenged contestants with a course design that most teams assessed as being the most punishing since the rally’s relocation to South America. Indeed, only 19 out of 44 starting trucks, or just 43%, made it to the finish line, making this the first time the finish rate fell below 50% since the rally’s relocation to South America in 2009. This marked Hino Motors’ 27th straight finish since its first entry in 1991 as the first Japanese maker of commercial vehicles, and in achieving this feat, it has attracted attention from around the world and succeeded in demonstrating its formidable presence.

2018

Result of the truck division

You can scroll horizontally

Ranking Maker Time
1 KAMAZ 54:57:37
2 MAZ 58:54:54
3 KAMAZ 60:20:11
4 IVECO 61:35:59
5 LIAZ 62:07:53
6(1) HINO 63:07:53
7 RENAULT 64:17:00
8 IVECO 64:22:31
9 SCANIA 64:52:42
10 KAMAZ 65:01:24

*(): Under 10-liter Class

Car 1 Yoshimasa Sugawara and Katsumi Hamura trapped in dunes on stage2 and forced to withdraw from the rally.

「HINO TEAM SUGAWARA」 Dakar Rally 2018 Team Member

Car 1
Driver: Yoshimasa SUGAWARA
Navigator: Katsumi Hamura

Car 2
Driver: Teruhito SUGAWARA
Navigator: Hiroyuki Sugiura

Mechanic leader: Seiichi Suzuki
Mechanic sub-leader: Yoichi Okabe, Hino Motors
Mechanics:
Yuki Takano, Gunma Hino Motor, Ltd.
Hiroki Kinoshita, Yokohama Hino Motor, Ltd.
Aiichiro Yamauchi, Toyama Hino Motor, Ltd.
Ryota Shibutani, Kobe Hino Motor, Ltd.

Support car driver:
Koji Tanaka
Masaki Satoh
Daigo Maruta

Support member: Mayumi Kezuka

Route Map

Route Map

You can scroll horizontally

Start Finish Distance (KM), Truck Category
Special Stage Connection Total
January 6, Saturday Stage 1 Lima, Peru Pisco 31 242 273
January 7, Sunday Stage 2 Pisco Pisco 267 12 279
January 8, Monday Stage 3 Pisco San Juan de Marcona 296 208 504
January 9, Tuesday Stage 4 San Juan de Marcona San Juan de Marcona 330 114 444
January 10, Wednesday Stage 5 San Juan de Marcona Arequipa 268 666 934
January 11, Thursday Stage 6 Arequipa La Paz, Bolivia 313 447 760
January 12, Friday Rest day La Paz - - -
January 13, Saturday Stage 7 La Paz Uyuni 369 302 671
January 14, Sunday Stage 8 Uyuni Tupiza 381 180 561
January 15, Monday Stage 9 Uyuni Salta, Argentina 242 513 755
January 16, Thursday Stage 10 Salta Belen 373 424 797
January 17, Wednesday Stage 11 Belen Chilecito 280 467 747
January 18, Thursday Stage 12 Chilecito San Juan 523 270 793
January 19, Friday Stage 13 San Juan Cordoba 369 560 929
January 20, Friday Stage 14 Cordoba Cordoba 120 166 286
Total 4,162 4,571 8,733

Number of Entrants

You can scroll horizontally

Division Entrants Finish Completion rate
Moto 142 85 60%
Quad 50 32 64%
Auto 83 66 59%
UTV 13 6 46%
Truck 44 19 43%
Total 341 185 54%

Search within this website