The tandem of Cyril Despres and David Castera onboard the 104 Peugeot 2008 DKR have won the 2016 Silk Way Rally. Their victory comes in the wake of the success of Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret on January’s Dakar and on last September’s China Grand Rally, and provides further evidence of the Peugeot 2008 DKR’s performance and reliability. It also rewards the hard work put it by everyone at Peugeot Sport over the past two years. The team’s solidarity and team sprit are hallmarks of both the team and the crews, as they showed once again over the 10,000 kilometers between Moscow and Beijing.
From start to finish, the Peugeot 2008 DKR delivered a combination of performance and impeccable reliability. None of the three cars suffered any technical problems of note in the course of the punishing 10,000-kilometer marathon.