Dakar Features The national champion targeting Dakar success despite major surgery The last year has been something of a roller coaster for Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Henk Lategan. A fourth South African Rally Raid Championship this year… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon December 4, 2024 5 min
Dakar News Land Rover announces 2026 Dakar program Jaguar Land Rover is the latest car manufacturer to commit to a Dakar program with a factory Defender team competing on the event in 2026…. Read more by David Evans November 25, 2024 2 min
Dakar Features Why there’s more to come from an emerging Dakar hero The look in Sara Price’s eye said it all. Yes, she would be back. Talking to the American minutes after she’d missed out on a… Read more by David Evans November 8, 2024 3 min
Dakar News Dakar winning riders Price and Sunderland make 2025 car move Two-time Dakar Rally winners Toby Price and Sam Sunderland will switch from the motorcycle category to make their T1+ car debuts at the 2025 edition… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon October 22, 2024 3 min
Dakar News Sainz’s Ford debut derailed by technical trouble Carlos Sainz’s debut in the Ford Raptor at Rally Morocco, the traditional warm-up event for the Dakar, was compromised after failing to start the second… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay October 8, 2024 2 min
Off-Road Features Why an Audi legend chose Ford as his new home As he sits on the start line for the final round of the World Rally-Raid Championship in Morocco next week, new Ford Performance recruit Mattias… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon October 4, 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
Off-Road News Al Rajhi wins Argentina while Al-Attiyah eyes W2RC title Nasser Al-Attiyah put one hand on a third successive World Rally-Raid Championship title after finishing second to Overdrive Racing’s Yazeed Al Rajhi on the Desafío… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon June 8, 2024 5 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 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
