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2012, Autoart, Dakar Trucks, Hino, Seiichi Suzuki, Teruhito Sugawara

2012 Hino 500 Teruhito Sugawara / Suzuki

Hino Team Sugawara is a joint team formed by Hino Motors and Japan Racing Management to race in the Dakar Rally, founded by Yoshimasa Sugawara in 1992. The team  raced Hino 500 series trucks in Dakar rally being almost permanent winner in the under 10-litres trucks class. Teruhito Sugawara is the second son of Yoshimasa Sugawara, the “Iron Man of Dakar.” He first joined the Dakar Rally team as a mechanic in 1998, and began navigating for his father the following year. Since 2005, he has been racing the Dakar Rally alongside his father as a father and son duo on two trucks, and won his first class championship in the Under 10-litre Class in 2007. In the 2012 Dakar edition Teruhito driving Hino 500 #508 finished 9th in the trucks category overall and was 1st in Under 10-liters Class. Yoshimasa Sugawara driving Hino #521 was 24th in trucks rankings.

SeasonSeriesEvent
2012Rally RaidsDakar Rally (Mar del Plata–Arica–Lima)
TruckNo.Entrant
Hino 500508Hino Team Sugawara
DriverCo-DriverCo-Driver
Teruhito SugawaraSeiichi Suzuki
Scale ManufacturerCollection
1:43Autoart
Cat. No.QualityRarity
61298

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