Sports News | Three-time Dakar Rally Winner Hubert Auriol Dies at 68
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Paris, Jan 11 (AP) Hubert Auriol, the first competitor to win the Dakar Rally on a motorbike and in a car, has died. He was 68.
The Dakar Rally announced that Auriol died on Sunday. It did not specify a cause but the Frenchman had battled heart disease for many years.
The charismatic Auriol won the race, which was then called the Paris-Dakar Rally, on a motorbike in 1981 and '83 and then in a car in 1992.
Auriol later became director of the race, a position he held for nearly a decade. In recent years, he had worked as a Paris-based auto racing consultant.
“He inspired generations of riders and drivers and has been an integral part of the rally throughout its history,” the Dakar Rally said. AP
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