1998 Dakar Rally also known as the 1998 Paris-Dakar Rally was the 20th running of the Dakar Rally event. The rally returned to a Paris to Dakar route. A number of competitors were attacked near the end of the ninth stage, at Taoudenni in Mali. Jean-Pierre Fontenay won the car class and Stephane Peterhansel won his sixth motorcycle title in ten years.
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“The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the the land,
In England there shall be dear bread—in Ireland, sword and brand;
And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand,
So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand,
Of the fine old English Tory days;
Hail to the coming time!”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)