Dakar Features Was Dakar’s radical new stage format a success? The 2023 edition of the Dakar Rally was gruelling by anyone’s standards. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any tougher, race director David Castera… Read more by James Bowen January 14, 2024 3 min
Dakar News Meeke retires from Dakar Rally Kris Meeke is out of the Dakar Rally after sustaining roll cage damage to his G Rally team-run buggy. After being involved in a scary… Read more by James Bowen January 13, 2024 2 min
Dakar Features Why the next week will shape modern history for Audi Audi has a habit of revolutionizing motorsport. Quattro permanently changed rallying; the days of two-wheel drive at the top level were banished to the history… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 13, 2024 3 min
Dakar News Rookie Price rules the Dakar dunes in week one If there’s one thing Saudi Arabia does well, it’s sand. And dunes. It’s the sand dunes that have focused the mind of rookie Dakar star… Read more by DirtFish Media January 12, 2024 3 min
Off-Road News Meeke’s Dakar hopes dashed by scary near‑miss Kris Meeke’s Dakar Rally hasn’t gone to plan from day one. After receiving a late call-up in December to stand in for Dutch driver Kees… Read more by James Bowen January 11, 2024 5 min
Dakar News Loeb’s strategy gambit for Dakar’s biggest test You don’t win nine world championships by just mashing a throttle pedal to the floor. Engaging grey matter is as critical as engaging first gear… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 11, 2024 3 min
Dakar Features Dakar vs WRC – what’s the difference? Feeds full of Dakar right now? But Monte Carlo and the start of a new World Rally Championship adventure is looming ever larger. Now more… Read more by DirtFish Media January 10, 2024 5 min
WRC Opinion Podcast: The season starts here Austria’s Jänner Rallye provided a snowy start to 2024 last weekend, while the stars of rally-raid have descended on Saudi Arabia to slug it out… Read more by DirtFish Media January 9, 2024
Dakar Features The all-female Dakar debut crew that’s impossible to miss There’s more than a few eye-catching machines on this year’s Dakar Rally. Audi’s RS Q e-tron looks a bit like something you’d use to explore… Read more by James Bowen January 9, 2024 3 min
Dakar News Al Rajhi leads after Dakar hits the rocks Yazeed Al Rajhi reminded himself of what he’d said ahead of the start of this year’s Dakar. Emerging from the 271-mile section from Al Duwadimi… Read more by David Evans January 8, 2024 2 min
Dakar Features The unexpectedly poignant Dakar tribute When French Porsche tuner Jérémy Athimon started building two replicas of the German brand’s legendary 959 – Dakar winner in 1986 – to compete in… Read more by James Bowen January 8, 2024 5 min
Dakar News Sainz takes Dakar lead, Loeb returns to lead fight Carlos Sainz has assumed the lead of the Dakar Rally after stage two, while Sébastien Loeb recovered strongly from day one drama to assume a… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 7, 2024 2 min
Dakar News Loeb and Al-Attiyah hit trouble in Dakar opener Nasser Al-Attiyah and Sébastien Loeb, two of the favorites for Dakar Rally victory ran into trouble on the very first stage, while Guillaume de Mevius… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 6, 2024 3 min
Dakar News A taste of what’s to come from Dakar 2024 Day zero, as it were, of the Dakar Rally is behind us. The Prologue stage is done and dusted. With such an open and competitive… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 5, 2024 2 min
Dakar News Price heading into the unknown as Dakar adventure begins Sara Price couldn’t be more honest: she simply doesn’t know what to expect from Dakar. Actually, Price does know one thing. In the next fortnight,… Read more by DirtFish Media January 5, 2024 3 min
Dakar Features Everything you need to know about Dakar 2024 The beginning of a new year can only mean one thing in the world of off-road motorsport. It’s Dakar time. The 46th edition of the… Read more by James Bowen January 4, 2024
Dakar News René Metge obituary: Three-time Dakar champion dies aged 82 On Wednesday, January 3, my colleague James Bowen pointed out the symbiosis between car and driver; that to think of one driver is often to… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay January 3, 2024 2 min
Off-Road Features How Sir Jackie Stewart helped shape a five-time Dakar winner Nasser Al-Attiyah put the book down, he knew what he had to do. He had to race. Nineteen Middle East Rally Championship titles and five… Read more by David Evans January 2, 2024 3 min