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From chicken farmer to Dakar: the story of Wevers Sport

Erik Wevers was a chicken farmer by trade when he started in Dutch rallying in 1998. He founded Wevers Sport, which grew from Markelo into an established name on the rally stages, nationally and internationally. It still is: rally cars...

A.S.O. puts Dakar 2027 plan B for Morocco on the table

Three months before the planned start, organiser A.S.O. is publicly sticking to a Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, from 1 to 15 January. Behind the scenes, however, according to the Spanish sports papers AS and Mundo Deportivo, an alternative is...

From chicken farmer to Dakar: the story of Wevers Sport

Erik Wevers was a chicken farmer by trade when he started in Dutch rallying in 1998. He founded Wevers Sport, which grew from Markelo into an established name on the rally stages, nationally and internationally. It still is: rally cars...

A.S.O. puts Dakar 2027 plan B for Morocco on the table

Three months before the planned start, organiser A.S.O. is publicly sticking to a Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, from 1 to 15 January. Behind the scenes, however, according to the Spanish sports papers AS and Mundo Deportivo, an alternative is...

Why the Dakar Rally Left Africa

The Dakar Rally is a Saudi affair these days. Since 2020 the Dakar stages have run through the dunes of the Rub al-Khali and past the rock formations near Yanbu, far from the city that gave the rally its name....

ASO unveils longest Dakar in Saudi Arabia

At the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, Amaury Sport Organisation yesterday presented the route for the 49th edition of the Dakar Rally. Race director David Castera unveiled an edition that goes further in every respect than previous years in...

Africa Eco Race 2027 presented at Tachyon Motorsport

On Wednesday 22 July, RallyTracks organised a presentation on the eighteenth edition of the Africa Eco Race in cooperation with the rally’s organisation. At Tachyon Motorsport in Eemnes, those present were given a complete picture of what taking part in...

Africa Eco Race 2026 concludes at Lac Rose

With the twelfth and final stage, the Africa Eco Race 2026 officially came to an end near the city of Dakar. In the early morning, competitors gathered on the beach for the traditional mass start of the untimed special. Not...

Van den Broek and Zuurmond win Africa Eco Race 2026

The eleventh and final timed stage of the Africa Eco Race 2026 marked the symbolic transition from Mauritania to Senegal and concluded the rankings of this seventeenth edition. The stage from Ouad Naga to Mpal covered a total of 475...

W2RC publishes 2027 calendar: five rounds, more space between events

The organisers of the FIA-FIM World Rally-Raid Championship have announced the calendar for the 2027 season. The championship’s sixth season sticks with the proven five-round format, but introduces a clearly revised schedule with more time between the individual events. The...