WRC Opinion Carlos Sainz’s Top 5 moments in a Ford He’s back. Again. For the fourth time in his career, Carlos Sainz begins another Ford adventure at this week’s Rallye du Maroc. The Spaniard joined… Read more by David Evans October 3, 2024 3 min
Dakar News Ford signs Ekström to complete its 2025 Dakar line-up Ford Performance has completed its driver line-up with which it will tackle next year’s Dakar Rally, with Audi exile Mattias Ekström joining the previously unveiled… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon October 1, 2024 3 min
Dakar News Loeb’s “live rehearsal” to secure elusive first Dakar win He’s the man who dominated the World Rally Championship for a decade. He re-wrote records seemingly for fun and won everything in sight. And those… Read more by David Evans October 1, 2024 3 min
Dakar News Where does Dacia stand with its Dakar project? In the middle of the Moroccan desert, Dacia is embarking on the first meaningful test of its Sandrider T1U with which it will take on… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon September 17, 2024 5 min
Dakar Podcast From Baja to boats via Dakar: Sara Price will race anything Sara Price has been blazing a trail for years now. In her first career as a motocross rider, she was the first ever woman to… Read more by DirtFish Media August 18, 2024 10 min +
Dakar News Ford’s Dakar 2025 challenger unveiled Chichester is a long way from the Empty Quarter; the driveway at the bottom of the Duke of Richmond’s garden is some distance from the… Read more by David Evans July 12, 2024 3 min
Dakar News Dacia completes initial tests of Dakar car Suggested title: Dacia completes initial testing phase of Dakar car Subhead: No major issues for Sandrider after cumulative eight-day test in UK and France Dacia has undergone… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon June 6, 2024 3 min
Dakar News All you need to know about the 2025 Dakar There are few motorsport events in the world, especially those celebrating a 47th birthday in 2025, that have been able to merge tradition with innovation in… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon May 25, 2024 5 min
Dakar Features Why Ford and M-Sport signed Sainz It would have been shortly before his 10th birthday. Quite possibly standing in the kitchen at home in Cumbria. Matthew Wilson knew then. And he… Read more by David Evans May 10, 2024 5 min
Dakar News Sainz confirmed for Ford’s Dakar assault Carlos Sainz’s sensational return to Ford has been confirmed, with the four-time Dakar winner joined by countryman Nani Roma. The two Spaniards represent half of… Read more by David Evans May 10, 2024 3 min
Dakar News First glimpse of Ford’s 2025 Dakar car From what I can see, which, I’ll admit, is not a lot, M-Sport and Ford have won their first battle. This thing is truly bad-ass…. Read more by David Evans May 3, 2024 1 min
Dakar News Sainz getting closer to Ford W2RC deal Carlos Sainz has told DirtFish he’s closing on an agreement with Ford to join the Blue Oval’s Dakar program later this season. The Spaniard, who… Read more by David Evans April 4, 2024 2 min
Women in motorsport Features The new team principal tasked with getting Loeb’s first Dakar win Tiphanie Isnard has been involved in rallying for the best part of 20 years, but even she can’t help getting a little excited about the… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon March 8, 2024 5 min
Dakar Features Dacia’s anti-Audi approach to Dakar Sébastien Loeb could only look on in envy as Audi’s three musketeers banded together to shepherd Carlos Sainz home to victory. On the penultimate stage,… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 31, 2024 5 min
Dakar News Dacia reveals Loeb’s 2025 Dakar challenger Dacia has taken the virtual covers off its new rally-raid prototype – the car with which it will make its Dakar debut in 2025. Christened… Read more by James Bowen January 30, 2024
Dakar News Price reflects on the true cost of Dakar The disappointment was as obvious as it was understandable. Having run second and talked of the potential for a dream Dakar win for the previous… Read more by David Evans January 20, 2024 3 min
Dakar News Could Sainz be heading for a third term at M-Sport? It’s the end of 1995 again. Or maybe late 1999. The date might have changed, the whispers haven’t: “Carlos Sainz to M-Sport…” It would be… Read more by DirtFish Media January 20, 2024 2 min
Dakar News The “crazy idea” that Sainz’s victory made reality Everything was turned upside down at the dawn of the current decade. When Covid-19 ground everything to a halt, it gave some of us in… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 19, 2024 3 min