FILE PHOTO: Rallying - Dakar Rally - Stage 12 - Haradh to Qiddiya- Haradh, Saudi Arabia - January 17, 2020 Bahrain JCW X-Raid Team's Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz during stage 12 REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed/File Photo
LONDON (Reuters) - Bahrain will enter its own team in next year's Dakar Rally after being title sponsor this year of Spaniard Carlos Sainz's winning Mini JCW X-Raid entry.
The island kingdom's Mumtalakat sovereign wealth fund announced on Wednesday that it was setting up a joint venture with British motorsport and engineering company Prodrive to design and manufacture cars for a Dakar entry.
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