Dakar Features WRC to rally-raid: How hard is it? With 108 World Rally Championship starts to his name, 37 stage wins and a solitary victory, Ola Fløene has seen his fair share of things… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 7, 2023 3 min
Dakar News Peterhansel and Sainz both crash out of Dakar Rally Audi’s Stéphane Peterhansel is out of this year’s Dakar Rally following a crash on the sixth stage which injured his navigator Edouard Boulanger. The incident… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 6, 2023 3 min
Dakar News Dakar weekend stages altered due to flooding Dakar Rally organizers have made further tweaks to the 2023 route following the flooding of the Al Duwadimi bivouac this week. Friday’s sixth stage of… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 6, 2023 3 min
Dakar News Floods force Dakar route rethink The Dakar Rally organizer, the ASO, has announced that Friday’s sixth stage of the 2023 edition will be reduced by around 100km as a result… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 5, 2023 2 min
Dakar News Al-Attiyah extends lead, Loeb crashes Nasser Al-Attiyah came out on top in a thrilling three-way scrap with Stéphane Peterhansel and Sébastien Loeb who crashed near the end to win stage… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 5, 2023 3 min
Dakar News Why Audi’s Dakar power increase isn’t controversial Around the Dakar Rally bivouac on Wednesday evening, there was the merest hint of controversy following the FIA and ASO’s joint decision to increase the… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 5, 2023 3 min
Dakar News Audi to receive more power from Dakar stage five All three of Audi’s electric hybrid RS Q e-tron E2 cars will receive an increase in maximum power output from Thursday’s fifth stage of the… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 4, 2023 2 min
Dakar News Loeb wins stage as team-mate retires through injury Bahrain Raid Xtreme’s Sébastien Loeb finally put an end to his run of bad luck on the Dakar Rally by taking his first stage victory… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 4, 2023 3 min
Dakar News “Curious” Mikkelsen would suit a Dakar career Andreas Mikkelsen’s former World Rally Championship co-driver Ola Fløene believes the three-time World Rally winner would be a perfect fit for rally-raid should he decide… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 4, 2023 3 min
Dakar Features The chaotic Dakar stage that washed away two victory chances It was a scene you simply do not expect to see in the desert landscape of Saudi Arabia. Two cars, each from the Red Bull… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 3, 2023 3 min
Dakar News Al-Attiyah moves into Dakar lead on shortened third day Nasser Al-Attiyah has moved into the lead of the Dakar Rally despite dropping more than 20 minutes, as Audi’s Carlos Sainz ground to a halt… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 3, 2023 3 min
Dakar News Why Loeb lost an hour on Dakar’s second day Bahrain Raid Xtreme’s Sébastien Loeb has said that the second stage of the 2023 Dakar Rally was “no pleasure to drive” after a litany of… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 2, 2023 3 min
Dakar News Al-Attiyah wins stage two as Loeb drops over an hour Toyota’s Nasser Al-Attiyah and Mathieu Baumel claimed their first stage victory of the 2023 Dakar Rally, but Sébastien Loeb’s victory chances are all but over… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 2, 2023 3 min
Dakar Opinion Mullets and roll mats: A first real Dakar experience Day one proper of the Dakar dawned way too early for my liking after, once again, not enough sleep. If you’re reading this Mr Berghaus,… Read more by Colin Clark January 2, 2023 2 min
WRC Features 10 things to look forward to in 2023 Happy New Year dear DirtFish reader. Welcome to another year; welcome to the fourth year of the DirtFish media project. And what a year we… Read more by Luke Barry January 1, 2023 3 min
Dakar News Sainz seizes top spot on Dakar opening stage Carlos Sainz has become the first leader of the 2023 Dakar Rally, outpacing Sébastien Loeb on an opening stage that looked to belong to his… Read more by Luke Barry January 1, 2023 2 min
Dakar News Dakar regs between ICE and electric “fair” – Ekström Team Audi Sport’s Mattias Ekström says the closeness of the Dakar Rally field following the Sea Camp prologue proves that the FIA’s latest regulation tweak… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon December 31, 2022 3 min
Dakar Opinion Colin Clark: Could W2RC spell trouble for the WRC? Well, it’s been a mighty interesting day here in the Sea Camp bivouac waiting for the acton to get under way and finding ways to… Read more by Colin Clark December 31, 2022 2 min
