FILE PHOTO: Dakar Rally - 2018 Peru-Bolivia-Argentina Dakar rally - 40th Dakar Edition stage eleven ,Belen to Chilecito- January 17, 2018. Stephane Peterhansel of France gestures before departing for the stage. REUTERS/Andres Stapff
(Reuters) - Thirteen times Dakar winner Stephane Peterhansel has had to abandon plans for wife Andrea to partner him as co-driver in January's rally in Saudi Arabia after doctors ruled her out on health grounds.
The Frenchman, nicknamed 'Mr Dakar' for his success on two wheels and four, will now be partnered by Portuguese Paulo Fiuza in the endurance event that starts for the first time in Jeddah on Jan. 5.
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