Dakar News Dakar lead changes hands with just three days to go Overdrive Racing’s Yazeed Al Rajhi has moved into the lead of the 2025 Dakar Rally with three stages remaining after overhauling Toyota Hilux stablemate Henk… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 14, 2025 3 min
Dakar News Al-Attiyah closes on Ekström for Dakar podium The battle for third place in the 2025 Dakar Rally intensified on stage eight as Dacia’s Nasser Al-Attiyah reduced the gap to the M-Sport Ford… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 13, 2025 3 min
Dakar News Dakar leader fumes at organizers’ road book decision It was a decision that was always going to divide opinion. On one side, the rally leader has seen an over-seven-minute lead almost completely evaporate;… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 12, 2025 5 min
Dakar News Road book error blows Dakar wide open As the storm clouds gathered over the Al Duwadimi bivouac, it became clear that stage seven of the 2025 Dakar Rally was going to be… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 12, 2025 3 min
Dakar News Al-Rajhi closes in on Dakar lead, Chicherit hospitalized after crash Even when things got a little choppy, it still seemed as if the wind was in Yazeed Al Rajhi’s sails on the Dakar’s sixth stage…. Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 11, 2025 2 min
Dakar Features Dakar’s unexpected leader faces an uphill struggle Amid all the drama of the opening week of the 2025 Dakar Rally, perhaps the biggest surprise of the 47th edition has been that a… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 10, 2025 3 min
Dakar News What you missed from Dakar’s first week The 2025 Dakar Rally has had perhaps as much drama and twists in one week than there have been in the last few years combined…. Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 10, 2025 5 min
Dakar Features How Dakar’s ‘water carrier’ role works, and why it’s used The opening week of the 2025 Dakar Rally has produced more than its fair share of drama and incident. Two of the pre-event favorites, Dacia’s… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 10, 2025 5 min
Dakar News Al-Attiyah gives Dacia its first Dakar stage win, then loses it Dacia Sandriders has claimed its first ever Dakar Rally stage win, as Nasser Al-Attiyah blitzed the field by 10 minutes to move back into podium… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 9, 2025 3 min
Dakar News FIA explains why Loeb had to be excluded from Dakar The FIA says it was left with no alternative but to disqualify Dacia Sandriders’ Sébastien Loeb from the 2025 Dakar Rally following his high-speed crash… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 9, 2025 3 min
Dakar News Loeb says his Dakar exclusion “not based on solid arguments” Sébastien Loeb says the FIA’s decision to disqualify him from the 2025 Dakar Rally is ‘hard to swallow’ and ‘not based on solid arguments’ following… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 8, 2025 2 min
Dakar News Al-Attiyah the latest Dakar favorite in trouble Dacia Sandriders has suffered yet more disappointment on the Dakar Rally as Nasser Al-Attiyah lost over half an hour on stage four, which was won… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 8, 2025 2 min
Dakar Podcast Is the Dakar Loeb’s one weakness? In rallying you must always expect the unexpected, but there was nothing truly more unexpected than Sébastien Loeb crashing his Citroën in the World Rally… Read more by DirtFish Media January 8, 2025 10 min +
Dakar News Loeb excluded from Dakar after rollover Sébastien Loeb’s Dakar Rally is over after his Dacia Sandrider failed an FIA Technical Delegate safety inspection following his high-speed accident on stage three. Loeb… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 7, 2025 2 min
Dakar News Loeb rolls and loses over an hour Sébastien Loeb suffered another setback in the 2025 Dakar Rally, losing over 50 minutes following a barrel-roll in the third stage from Bisha to Al… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 7, 2025 2 min
Dakar News Sainz retires from the Dakar M-Sport Ford star Carlos Sainz has retired from this year’s Dakar at the end of the 48-hour chrono stage in Bisha. The four-time winner rolled… Read more by David Evans January 6, 2025 1 min
Dakar Opinion Colin Clark: Making memories in the middle of nowhere It’s only stage two of the Dakar, but the organizers in their rather dastardly ways have decided to throw in a bit of an early… Read more by Colin Clark January 6, 2025 5 min
Dakar Features The Dakar debut echoing the steps of a legend Without sounding too hyperbolic, it has been some start to Toby Price and Sam Sunderland’s new Dakar Rally adventure in the car category. The double… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 6, 2025 5 min
