Camel Trophy competitor Fred Monses takes a promotional Camel Trophy Range Rover to the 1991 ABP Rally. This Camel Trophy vehicle was driven by Dan Floyd and Tom Collins in the 1987 Madagascar Camel Trophy event.

Camel cigarettes (RJR Nabisco) sponsored the first Camel Trophy in 1980. Since then it has been taken over by Worldwide Brands Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of RJR, organized in 1981, which owns the Camel Trophy trademark. WBI Germany had launched the "Camel Trophy Collection" of leisure wear in 1977, and in 1991 WBI diversified into "Camel Trophy Adventure Wear" (boots, clothing, watches), presently marketed only in Europe and the Far East. In 1992 Land Rover entered into a formal co-sponsorship agreement with WBI. Plans now call for North American LR dealers to market the Camel Trophy branded "adventure wear".

Here is the history of the Camel Trophy in a nutshell:

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Camel Trophy History

Year	Camel Trophy Location	Vehicle	#teams	Nations
1980	Transamazonica	Jeep, P	3	1
1981	Sumatra	Range Rover, 2 door, P	5	1
1982	Papua New Guinea	Range Rover, 2 door, P	8	4
1983	Zaire	Series III 88	14	7
1984	Brazil	Land Rover 110	12	6
1985	Borneo	Land Rover 90	16	8
1986	Australia	Land Rover 90	14	14
1987	Madagascar	Range Rover TD	14	14
1988	Sulawesi	Land Rover 110	12	12
1989	The Amazon	Land Rover 110	14	14
1990	Siberia-USSR	Discovery Tdi 3-door	16	16
1991	Tanzania-Burundi	Discovery Tdi 5-door	17	17
1992	Guyana	Discovery Tdi 5-door	16	16
1993	Sabah-Malaysia	Discovery Tdi 5-door	16	16
1994	Arg-Parag-Chile	Discovery Tdi 5-door	18	18
1995	Mundo Maya	Discovery Tdi 5-door	20	20
1996	Borneo	Discovery Tdi 5-door	20	22
1997	Mongolia	Discovery Tdi 5-door	20	20

Camel Trophy Competition Results

1980 Transamazonica

Route: Belem to Santarem

Distance: 1,600 km

Teams: 3 from West Germany

Winner: West Germany (Klaus Karthna-Dircks & Uwe Machel)

1981 Sumatra

Route: Medan to Jambi

Distance: 1,600 km

Teams: 5

Winner: West Germany (Christian Swoboda & Knuth Mentel)

1982 Papua New Guinea

Route: Mont Hagen to Madang

Distance: 1,600 km

Teams: 2 each from: Italy, the Netherlands, West Germany and United States

Winner: Italy (Casare Geruado & Giuliano Giongo)

Note: Special Tasks introduced

1983 Zaire

Route: Kinshasa to Kinsangani

Distance: 1,600 km

Teams: the Netherlands, Portugal, Hong Kong, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain

Winner: the Netherlands (Henk Bont & Frank Heij)

1984 Brazil

Route: Transamazonica Highway, Santarem to Manaus

Distance:

Teams: 2 each from: Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland & West Germany
Winner: Italy (Maurizio Lavi & Alfredo Redaelli)

1985 Borneo
Route: Samarinda to Balikpapan
Teams: 2 each from: Brazil, West Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Canary Islands
Winner: West Germany I (Heinz Kallin & Bernd Strohdach)
Team Spirit Award: (1st year) Brazil II (Tito Rosenberg & Carlos Probst)

1986 Australia
Route: Cooktown to Darwin
Distance: 3,218 km
Teams: France, Italy, Canary Islands, Switzerland, Holland, Japan, Australia, USA, UK, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Malaysia, Belgium
Winner: France (Jacques Mambre, Michel Courvallet)
Team Spirit Award: Australia (Glenn Jones & Ron Begg)

1987 Madagascar
Route: Diego Suarez to Fort Dauphin
Distance: 2,252 km
Teams: Italy, USA, Holland, Spain, Malaysia, Germany, Brazil, Japan, UK, Switzerland, Belgium, Canary Islands, France, Turkey
Winner: Italy (Mauro Miele & Vincenzo Tota)
Team Spirit Award: Spain (Jaime Puig & Victor Muntan)

1988 Sulawesi
Route: Manado to Ujang Padang
Distance: 2,092 km
Teams: Turkey, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Canary Islands, Japan, Switzerland, UK, Spain, France, Germany, Argentina
Winner: Turkey (Galip Gurel, Ali Deveci)
Team Spirit Award: UK (Jim Benson & Marc Day)
Note: Two distinct series of Special Tasks introduced

1989 The Amazon
Route: Alta Floresta to Manaus
Teams: UK, Brazil, Spain, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Holland, France, Japan, Argentina, Canary Islands, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Switzerland
Winner: UK (Bob Ives & Joe Ives)
Team Spirit Award: Belgium (Frank Dewitte & Peter Denys)

1990 Siberia, USSR
Route: Bratsk to Irkutsk
Distance: 1500km
Vehicles: 19 Discoveries, 4 Defender 110 Station Wagons, 5 Defender 127s(3 4-door crewcabs and 2 2-doors--all had a solid, enclosed load bed
Teams: the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Austria, France, Switzerland, Greece, USA, Turkey, Canary Islands, Belgium, Soviet Union, Japan
Winner: The Netherlands (Rob Kamps & Stijn Luyx)
2nd: West Germany, 3rd: UK
Team Spirit Award: Canary Islands (Carlos Barreto & Fernando Martin)

1991 Tanzania-Burundi
Route: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to Bujumbura, Burundi
Distance: 1,600 km
Teams: Turkey, Switzerland, Belgium, Greece, UK, USA, Italy, Canary Islands, Austria, France, Yugoslavia, Spain, Poland, Germany, Soviet Union, the Netherlands, Japan
Winner: Turkey (Menderes Utku & Bulent Ozler)
Team Spirit Award: Turkey (Menderes Utku & Bulent Ozler)
Special Tasks Award (introduced): Austria (Joseph Altmann & Peter Widhalm)

1992 Guyana
Route: Manaus, Brazil to Georgetown, Guyana
Distance: 1,600 km
Teams: Switzerland, USA, France, Austria, UK, Greece, Italy, Germany, Japan, Belgium, Commonwealth of Independent States, Poland, Canary Islands, Spain, Turkey, the Netherlands
Winner: Switzerland (Alwin Arnold & Urs Bruggisser)
Team Spirit Award: United States (Dan Amon & Jim West)
Special Tasks Award: France (Eric Cassaigne & Patrick Lafabrie)

1993 Sabah-Malaysia
Route: Circumnavigation, Kota Kinabalu to Kota Kinabalu
Distance: 1,500 km
Teams: United States, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Greece, the Netherlands, Canary Islands, Italy, Turkey, Poland, Russia, Malaysia, Japan
Winner: United States (Tim Hensley & Michael Hussey)
Team Spirit Award: Canary Islands (Ellis Martin & Francisco Zarate)
Special Tasks Award: France (Paul Gasser & Loup Tournand)

1994 Argintina-Paragua-Chile
Route: Iguazu Falls, Argentina to Hornitos, Chile
Distance: 2,590 km
Teams: South Africa, UK, Spain, Canary Islands, Greece, Russia, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Poland, France, the Netherlands, United States, Japan, Turkey, Hungary, Belgium
Winner: Spain (Jorge Corella & Carlos Martinez)
Team Spirit: South Africa (Etienne van Eeden & Klaus Hass)
2nd UK ( Damian Taft & Mark Cullum)
Special Tasks: 1st Spain (Carlos Martinez & Jorge Corella)
2nd Switzerland

1995 Mundo Maya
Route: Lamanai, Belize through Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras to Xunantunich, Belize
Distance: 1,700 km
Teams: Czech Republic, United States, South Africa, France, Russia, Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, Belgium, Canary Islands, UK, Germany, Israel, Hungary, Japan, Holland, Switzerland, Turkey, Scandinavia
Winner: Czech (Zdenek Nemec & Marek Rocajdl)
Team Spirit Award: Russia (Pavel Bogomolov & Sergei Fenev)
Special Tasks Award: Czech Republic (Zdenek Nemec & Marek Rocejdl)

1996 Kalimantan (Borneo)
Route: Balikpapan to Pontianak
Distance: 1850 km
Teams: Germany, South Africa, Belgium, UK, Italy, Greece, United States, Japan, France, Morocco, Turkey, Switzerland, Russia, Denmark/Norway, Finland/Sweden, Poland, Canary Islands, Spain, Czech Republic, the Netherlands
Winner: Greece (Miltos Farmakis & Nikos Sotirchos)
2nd: United States (Ken Cameron & Fred Hoess)
3rd: France
Team Spirit Award: South Africa (Samuel de Beer & Pieter du Plessis)
Special Tasks Award: Russia (Dmitriy Surin & Alexei Svirkov)
2nd: Greece (Miltos Farmakis & Nikos Sotirchos)
3rd: France
Land Rover Award: Greece (Miltos Farmakis & Nikos Sotirchos)

1997 Mongolia
Route: Central Mongolia
Distance: 1,500 Miles
Teams: Germany, South Africa, Belgium, UK, Italy, Greece, United States, Japan, France, Morocco, Turkey, Switzerland, Russia, Denmark/Norway, Finland/Sweden, Poland, Canary Islands, Spain, Czech Republic, the Netherlands
Winner: Austria ( Stefan Auer and Albrecht Thausing )