-Team Aims for 5th Straight Championship in the Under
10-litre Class –
Hino Motors, Ltd. (Hino) will be working with Team Sugawara
led by Yoshimasa Sugawara to enter two of its HINO500 Series trucks as HINO
TEAM SUGAWARA in Dakar Rally 2014, which is scheduled to kick off at Rosario,
Argentina on January 5, 2014.
Hino has been developing new racing trucks over a period of
3 years since 2012 with the goal of achieving high rankings in the Trucks
category. Dakar Rally 2014 will be the team’s third and culminating year of
this project. In the previous race, Car 1 became the team’s first truck to be
mounted with an electronically controlled (common rail) J08C engine. This
truck, which has received further upgrades to its output and reliability as Car
2 for the 2014 race, will be driven by Teruhito Sugawara, who is aiming for his
5th straight championship in the Under 10-litre Class and high rankings in the
Trucks category.