Category: Dakar

The first look at the 2025 Dakar Rally Ford Raptor contender is here, with Ford Performance also revealing that two of the four drivers behind the wheel will be Carlos … Read More

Carlos Sainz Sr has won the Dakar Rally Car category for the 4th time and American Ricky Brabec has won the Bike Category. –by Mark Cipolloni– 61-year-old Sainz and Brabec … Read More

Carlos Sainz Sr (Car Category) and Ricky Brabec (Bikes) have moved to within touching distance of the 2024 Dakar Rally victory. Ricky Brabec was equal to the task in Stage … Read More

Fresh memories never lie. Seeing the Dakar Stage 10 loop carved out near AlUla, starting and finishing at the bivouac where everyone had gathered less than two weeks ago, it … Read More

Sebastien Loeb has won Stage 9 of the Dakar Rally, but his gains on Carlos Sainz were limited by the fact that the Frenchman blew Stage 8. A navigational error … Read More

Mattias Ekstrom, who was 23rd to start, has produced the best time on the special and picks up his fifth victory in the Dakar Rally.  It was his second win … Read More

The Bahrain Raid Xtreme team of Sébastien Loeb & Fabian Lurquin won today’s Dakar Rally 7th stage. They now move to second overall in the standings. –by Mark Cipolloni– It … Read More

Sebastien Loeb claimed an impressive victory in Dakar Rally’s 48-hour Stage 6A/6B to move into third place in the overall standings. The Frenchman steadily extended his lead after passing both … Read More

Carlos Sainz put in the best performance on the first part of the 48 HR Dakar Rally stage 6/6A. The Spaniard achieved the best time to provisionally take the lead … Read More

Stage 4 Victory has gone to Sébastien Loeb and his co-pilot Fabian Lurquin today in the Dakar Rally car class (Shown above). The quickest time of the day has ensured … Read More

In the car category, Lucas Moraes claimed victory in the third stage of the Dakar Rally, while motorbike rider Carles Falcón was a ‘serious condition.’ While Kevin Benavides won Stage … Read More

Audi driver Stephane Peterhansel scored his 50th career win in the Dakar Rally on Sunday, while Audi teammate Carlos Sainz Sr. moved into the overall lead. –by Mark Cipolloni– After … Read More

Guillaume de Mevius beat Carlos Sainz Sr. in the volcanic soil of the second half of the Dakar Stage 1 to win the Car class, while Ross Branch won on Bikes. … Read More

When Dania Akeel is charging her race car through the landscapes of Saudi Arabia at the Dakar Rally, it feels extraordinary. Not only because she’s discovering her home country, but also because women … Read More

Mattias Ekström has begun his fourth Dakar in style by winning the prologue to claim his third stage victory in total. The Swedish driver completed the day 23’’ ahead of … Read More

TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) will be competing in 2024 with the updated version of its Dakar-winning car, now known as the GR DKR Hilux EVO T1U – a name that … Read More

In January 2024, Audi will take on the world’s toughest desert rally for the third time with its low-emission vehicle. “What the RS Q e-tron is fundamentally capable of has been demonstrated … Read More

Carlos Sainz Sr. was just six kilometers into Stage 9 at the Dakar Rally when he flipped his RS Q e-tron E2 onto a dune jump, landing nose-first in the … Read More

In what was already a foregone conclusion in the Car category, Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah won the Dakar Rally car crown for the fifth time on Sunday while Argentine KTM rider … Read More

Sebastien Loeb became the first driver in Dakar Rally history to score six consecutive stage wins after winning Stage 13 Saturday in Saudi Arabia. Sunday is the final stage. Since … Read More

Sebastien Loeb took his fifth stage win in a row to slot into second overall but Toyota’s reigning champion Nasser Al-Attiyah maintained his cruise towards a fifth title. Nine-times world … Read More

Sebastien Loeb completed a superb hat-trick of stage wins for Bahrain Raid Xtreme Wednesday as the Dakar Rally 2023 ventured into the Empty Quarter in Saudi Arabia for the first … Read More

Sebastien Loeb took victory on Stage 9 of the 2023 Dakar Rally, after Carlos Sainz Sr. suffered a major crash and Toyota’s Nasser Al-Attiyah extended his overall lead to 1hr21m57s. … Read More