Honda has launched its CRF450 Rally model at the 2012 International
Motorcycle, Scooter and Bike Fair in Cologne, Germany. The new machine
will compete in the 2013 Dakar Rally to be held from January 2013. Honda
competed nine times from 1981. As forerunner of the present Dakar
Rally, the Paris-Dakar Rally. Cyril Neveu (France) rode Honda to its
first victory in 1982, the race’s fourth year, and from 1986 to 1989
Honda won four consecutive titles for an overall record of five
victories in nine years.Honda will compete in the upcoming Dakar Rally
which is considered as world’s toughest race, with the aim of putting
the fuel efficiency and endurance technology developed for its
commercial vehicles to new challenges and in turn use the technology
acquired from the race in commercial applications. Read More: AutosVoice.com
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