Notes:
The accident happened about two hours after the end of the stage Francaville-Pointe Noire in territory of the Democratic Republic of Congo, during the 1992 Rallye Paris-Sirte-Le Cap. Gilles Lalay had closed the stage in fourth place and had started the displacement to the bivouac, when he was struck head-on by a Toyota of the medical-assistence of the T.S.O. proceeding from the opposite direction. Lalay was taken to hospital at Lumonbo, where he succumbed to his injuries some hours later.

Gilles Lalay had already won the Dakar Rally in the motorcycle class, in 1989 and finished second in 1991. In 1992 he rode a Yamaha for the Italian team Chesterfield Belgarda. After the accident the team withdrew from the raid.

This was the third fatality that happened in the 1992 Rallye Paris-Sirte-Le Cap, after French competitors Laurent Lebourgeois and Jean-Marie Sounillac had lost their lives when their Land Rover overturned near Sabah, in territory of Libya. A competing car - drivers unknown - crashed into a group of spectators in the village of Rig Rig, territory of Ciad. The organizers' version states that no one of them was killed, but members of a religious comminity operating in Ciad told two unknown children had lost their lives in the accident; this has not yet been confirmed.

For the first time the race exceeded the line of the Equator, arriving to Cape Town, South Africa, for over 12400 kms in the course: Rouen - Paris - Sète - Misratah - Sirte - Sabah 74 - Waw El Kbir - Tumu - Dirkou - N'Guigmi - N'Djamena - Sarh - Bouar - Yaoundé - Oyem - Franceville - Pointe Noire - Lobito - Namibe - Ruacana - Grootfontein - Gobabis - Keetmanshoop - Springbok - Le Cap, passing from France through Libya, Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Zambia, Namibia and South Africa. Hubert Auriol won his first car competition with co-driver Philippe Monnet in a Mitsubishi after his motorcycle success in 1981 and 1983, Stephane Peterhansel of France won his second motorcycle class on a Yamaha, a Perlini carried Italian Francesco Perlini with co-drivers Giorgio Albiero and Vinante to first place in the truck class.

• France Death Index, 1970-2020, retrieved by website MyHeritage: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-10823-9610785/gilles-roger-lalay-in-france-death-index .
• Magazine Autosprint, issue 14 January 1992
• Website Raffaeleciriello, article: "Postcards From Hell", page: http://www.raffaeleciriello.com/site/pw/04padak1.html#anchor .
• Website Telefónica Dakar (official website), http://www.dakar.com, page http://www.dakar.com/98fr/20ans/1992.html .
• Website AUTOSPORT → Forums → The Nostalgia Forum, thread "Speed's Ultimate Price: The Toll", page 46, posting by "Rainer Nyberg", message http://forums.atlasf1.com/showthread.php?postid=1893650#post1893650 .
• Website La Repubblica, article "Tutte le vittime della Dakar, una lunga scia di sangue", page http://www.repubblica.it/2005/a/motori/gennaio05/21mortidakar/21mortidakar.html .
• Website F1 Archive Forum, page http://f1.pluto.net.ru/forum_posts.asp?TID=220&PN=1 .
• Website El Mundo, article "La historia más negra del Dakar", page http://www.elmundo.es/elmundodeporte/2005/01/10/motor/1105360521.html .