ARGENTINA, Mar del Plata : Toyota driver Jorge Latrach (R) and co-driver Juan Latrach from Chile, launch confetti on the podium during the symbolic start of the 2012 Dakar Rally in Mar del Plata, some 400 Km south of Buenos Aires, on December 31, 2011. The race will start on January 1, 2012 in Mar Del Plata, on Argentina's Atlantic coast, will have five stages in Chile and will end on the Pacific coast at Lima in Peru on January 15.