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Mammoet Rallysport Press Release  /  November 7, 2016

Mammoet Rallysport, the race team of legendary Dutch heavy haulage company Mammoet (http://www.mammoet.com/), is testing the new Renault Trucks Sherpa rally truck for the Dakar 2017.

The Renault Sherpa is a tactical military vehicle that, coincidentally still uses the “club of four*” [Mack Mid-Liner] cab, which had been jointly developed by Saviem (merged into Renault), DAF, Magirus and Volvo.

The Renault Rallytrucks proof to be very succesfull. Van den Brink already won stages in Silkway and Dakar rally with the Renault Trucks K- rallytruck. With the Sherpa the Olybia Rally and the Libya Rally were won.

Later this month the trucks will be shipped from France to Argentina for the rally. The start of the Dakar 2017 rally is on january 1.

* Officially known as the Euro Truck Development Group.

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