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Mitsubishi Monitor Volume 18, No.2 April & May 2004

“Mitsubishi” is more than 40 independent companies who share a common ancestry.
The companies conduct their business activities separately but cooperate in areas like philanthropy and public affairs.

Four in a Row: Mitsubishi Motors Motor Sports Team members swarm around drivers Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret after their winning run. Endurance rallying, more than any other sport, is a team effort, where mechanics labor through the night preparing their cars for another taxing race in the morning. The team and their Mitsubishi Pajero/Montero Evolutions again proved up to the challenge.

The Mitsubishi Motors Motor
Sports Team sealed a record fourth consecutive victory (and ninth total) for Mitsubishi Motors Corporation on January 18 with a 1-2-5 finish of the 2004 Telefónica Dakar Rally. Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret were the respective driver and co-driver of the winning Mitsubishi Pajero/Montero Evolution. It was Cottret's first win, and Peterhansel, who has won previously on a motorbike, became only the second driver in the history of the race to win on both two wheels and four. The race started on New Year's Day at Clermont-Ferrand in central France and finished in Dakar, Senegal, after two and a half weeks of flat-out racing across two continents, much of it without roads. In a remarkable showing of consistency, reliability and flawless team support, the pair won only two of the individual stages, but was never lower than second in the overall standings from start to finish.
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