Notes:
Rider Giampaolo Marinoni fell at about 40 kms from the finish line, during the twentieth and last stage between Sali Portudal and Dakar of the 1986 Paris-Dakar Rally. He managed to finish the rally in thirteenth place of the 131 starters and 29 finishers of the riders, but did not feel that one of the brake lever of his Lucky Explorer-Cagiva had hurt his liver during the fall. After he arrived to Dakar he was operated in a hospital, where he succumbed for an infection two days later.

A native of Rovetta, province of Bergamo, Italy, Giampaolo Marinoni had his debut when he was 19, in reliability and enduro race in his region. He drove for DKW and Fantic in European enduro races, and in 1980 he was signed up by Cagiva, for which he operated as tester of the production motorcycles. In 1985 he had his first start in the Dakar Rally, winning a stage, but retired from the race before arriving to Dakar.

The course of the 1986 Rallye Paris-Alger-Dakar was: Paris Cergy - Versailles - Sète - Alger - El Golea - In Salah - Tamanrasset - Agadez - Dirkou - Agadem - Zinder - Niamey - Gourma Rharous - Bamako - Labé - Kayes - Kiffa - Saint Louis - Sali Portudal - Dakar, passing from France through Algeria, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritanie and Senegal. René Metge-Dominique Lemoyne in a Porsche 959 were the winners in the car competition. Cyril Neveu of France won the motorcycle gold, and a Unimog Mercedes carried the Italian team of Giacomo Vismara and Giulio Minelli to first place among the trucks.

This was the last of seven fatalities that happened in this edition of the Dakar Rally. First was killed the Japanese rider Yasuko Keneko, during the early stages in territory of France. On 14 January 1986 in a helicopter crash in territory of Mali, lost their lives Thierry Sabine and five other persons: French popstar Daniel Balavoine, journalist Nathalie Odent, technician Jean-Paul Lefur and helicopter pilot François-Xavier Bagnold.

Twenty-four years later, Jean-Michel Baron became the eighth victim of the 1986 Rallye Paris-Alger-Dakar. He crashed during the 10th stage of the rally, in territory of Niger and passed away on 02 September 2010, after spending twenty-four years in a vegetative state till his death.

• Magazine Rombo, issue 28 January 1986.
• Website aftonbladet, article "DÖDENS RALLY", page http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/sport/story/0,2789,587995,00.html .
• Website Lo Sport Italiano, page http://www.losportitaliano.it/2006/news/gen06/dakar38.htm .
• Website Elefanti Italiani, page http://www.cagivaelefant.it/pages/storia_pag.asp?ID=1 .
• Website Atlas F1, bulletin boards, "The Nostalgia Forum", thread "Speed's Ultimate Price: The Toll", page 46, posting by "Rainer Nyberg", message http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?showtopic=9705&view=findpost&p=1893650 .
• Website Telefónica Dakar (official website), http://www.dakar.com, page http://www.dakar.com/98us/20ans/1986.html .
• 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 .