Dakar News Baumel aims for Dakar return after losing his leg Four-time Dakar Rally winner Mathieu Baumel is determined to make the start of next year’s event, despite losing his right leg in a road traffic… Read more by Luke Barry February 16, 2025 2 min
Dakar Podcast Colin Clark’s Dakar and Saudi Arabia experience For those of us who’ve never been, the Dakar is a challenge impossible to understand. A gruelling, two-week onslaught where human endurance and performance is… Read more by Luke Barry February 1, 2025 10 min +
Dakar News Dakar winner Baumel seriously injured in road traffic collision Four-time Dakar Rally winning navigator Mathieu Baumel has been seriously injured in a road traffic collision in northern France. According to reports from La Provence,… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 31, 2025 2 min
Dakar Features What we learned from the 2025 Dakar This year’s Dakar Rally was always going to be something of a leap into the unknown. Newcomers Dacia Sandriders and M-Sport Ford were taking on… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 21, 2025 3 min
Dakar News How does M-Sport rate its first Dakar? A year ago, M-Sport founder Malcolm Wilson was an interested spectator, keen to keep an eye on what his company was about to embark on… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 20, 2025 5 min
Dakar News Al-Rajhi wins Dakar for the first time Overdrive Racing’s Yazeed Al Rajhi has won the Dakar Rally for the first time, after coming through the final 61km stage in Saudi Arabia’s vast… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 17, 2025 3 min
Dakar News Dakar lead changes hands again with one stage to go Overdrive Racing’s Yazeed Al Rajhi is within touching distance of becoming the first Saudi Arabian driver to win the Dakar Rally after moving back ahead… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 16, 2025 3 min
Dakar News Tactics come to the fore as Dakar lead changes again Amid the raging battle for the 2025 Dakar Rally victory, there’s a game of poker being played at the front. Tactics have been in force… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 15, 2025 3 min
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 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
