MMM: Dakar 2011 Pics

From the Boston Globe Big Picture, make sure you click through to the rest. Sadly the Big Picture editor has left for The Atlantic, hopefully the Globe will get some equally talented to pick up where he left off, and we’ll have two feeds of fab photos!

Volkswagen's Nasser Al-Attiyah, from Qatar, and co-driver Timo Gottschalk, from Germany, compete in the 11th stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Chilecito and San Juan, Argentina, Thursday,Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Volkswagen's Nasser Al-Attiyah, from Qatar, and co-driver Timo Gottschalk, from Germany, compete in the 11th stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Chilecito and San Juan, Argentina, Thursday,Jan. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Qatar's driver Nasser Al-Attiyah steers his Volkswagen (bottom) with German co-driver Timo Gottschalk, followed by Spain's driver Carlos Sainz with co-driver Lucas Cruz on January 10, 2011 on the stage 8 Atacama - Copiapo of the Dakar 2011 Rally. (DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images)
Qatar's driver Nasser Al-Attiyah steers his Volkswagen (bottom) with German co-driver Timo Gottschalk, followed by Spain's driver Carlos Sainz with co-driver Lucas Cruz on January 10, 2011 on the stage 8 Atacama - Copiapo of the Dakar 2011 Rally. (DANIEL GARCIA/AFP/Getty Images)