Dakar -> Rallycrossdrivers

I was wondering... has there ever been a rallycrossdriver who drove the famous Paris-Dakar rally ??

Jan De Rooy for one.

AFAIK apart from "Ome Jan" also Belgian Johan Moons and possibly even Matti Alamäki (see here: http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti_Alam%C3%A4ki).

See also here: http://www.turunsanomat.fi/ajassa/?ts=1,3:1007:0:0,4:7:0:1:2006-11-27,104:7:421981,1:0:0:0:0:0:

But don’t ask what it means – my Finnish is somewhat non-existent… :laugh:

how could I forget Jan de Rooij ? :rolleyes:
Now you mention it Eddi, Johan Moons did the rally as well.

See also here: http://www.turunsanomat.fi/ajassa/?ts=1,3:1007:0:0,4:7:0:1:2006-11-27,104:7:421981,1:0:0:0:0:0:

But don’t ask what it means – my Finnish is somewhat non-existent… :laugh:

A friend translated, Matti drove Paris-Dakar in the early 90th together with his sisters husband Hjallis Harkima.

A friend translated, Matti drove Paris-Dakar in the early 90th together with his sisters husband Hjallis Harkima.

Great !! Any idea which car he drove ?

A friend translated, Matti drove Paris-Dakar in the early 90th together with his sisters husband Hjallis Harkima.

Matti has a sister who was a famous Finnish model. She and her husband later had something to do with the organisation of sports events, AFAIR it had possibly something to do with ice-skating or ice-hockey. The Dakar year was 1990, I think. However, I wonder if Matti was the driver or Hjallis’ navigator and what make and model they have competed with.

http://www.leenaharkimo.fi/tyolista.html

Above the website of Matti’s sister. Seemingly she was married to that Harkimo guy from 1989 to 2003 and they were organising an ice-hockey league in the 1990s as well as running the Hartwall-Areena (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartwall_Areena) at Helsinki. BTW, how can the Finns dare to teach their children such a tongue-twisting language… :laugh:

Jesus... I looked at the website. I searched for a button called "English"... ;)