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Dakar Rally

BREAKING: Sainz out of the Dakar Rally

06/01/2025

The Dakar Rally organization has just announced that the 2024 Dakar winner is withdrawing from the rally. Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz are giving up after yesterday’s crash and several setbacks today. The car is too heavily damaged to continue....

Dakar Rally

UPDATE: Baciuska wins second stage after time penalties

06/01/2025

Rokas Baciuska wins his first stage in the Ultimate category. The young Lithuanian made the switch from the challengers to the Toyota Overdrive team. As a result of the win, that team occupied the entire top three, number four was...

Dakar Rally

Al Rajhi wins battle of attrition in 48h Chrono, Spierings wins Challenger class

06/01/2025

The decision by several top drivers to avoid opening the second stage proved to be a wise one. Yazeed Al Rajhi won the stage after nearly 11 hours behind the wheel of his Toyota Hilux. Henk Lategan finished second, also...

Dakar Rally

Problems for top tontenders in 48H Chrono, success in sight for Spierings

05/01/2025

Carlos Sainz’s decision to start at the front today turned out to be a poor choice in hindsight. The Spaniard crashed his Ford Raptor in the dunes, losing approximately an hour on the first day of the 48-hour stage of...

Dakar Rally

48h Chrono in Dakar: How Does It Work?

05/01/2025

Last year, the 48h Chrono was introduced in the Dakar Rally—a new concept allowing participants 48 hours to complete a single stage. In 2024, this challenge took place in the second week of the rally, but for the 2025 edition,...

Dakar Rally

Quintero wins first stage of Dakar 2025

04/01/2025

That opening a stage takes time is widely known. But the fact that today’s entire top five did not include a driver who started as one of the first 15 drivers is pretty special. Seth Quintero (started 26th) won the...

Dakar Rally

Lategan wins Dakar prologue, rookies win at challengers and ssv’s

03/01/2025

The Dakar Rally officially began today with a 29-kilometer prologue. There Henk Lategan was fastest with the Toyota Hilux. The South African was 1 second faster than Mattias Ekström (Ford) and 20 seconds faster than Nasser Al-Attiyah (Dacia). The top...

Dakar Rally

The cards have been shuffled for the cars for Dakar 2025

25/12/2024

Can a lot change in the cars of the Dakar Rally in a year? Yes, absolutely! The winning brand of the previous edition, Audi, is not there and there are many new and improved cars and brands at the start....