French race director Hubert Auriol (L) helps Italian biker Fabrizio Meoni (R) to fix his number plat.....
French race director Hubert Auriol (L) helps Italian biker Fabrizio Meoni (R) to fix his number plate on his motorcycle during the Paris-Dakar Rally technical check in Marseille, southern France, December 31, 2002. [The 25th Paris-Dakar Rally, with 342 competitors in auto, motorcycle, and truck categories, leaves Marseille on New Year's day, follows a route through Spain and three African countries - Tunisia, Lybia and Egypt - for a total of 8,552 kilometers, with an arrival in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt on January 19, 2003.]