Dakar Features Should the Dakar stretch beyond Saudi Arabia? Perhaps the biggest change to this year’s Dakar Rally route is that it is significantly longer and more challenging to the previous Saudi Arabia-based editions…. Read more by Stephen Brunsdon December 30, 2022 3 min
WRC News Saudi Arabia confirms its WRC ambitions Saudi Arabia Motorsport Company CEO Martin Whitaker has confirmed the Kingdom’s World Rally Championship’s ambitions with a planned candidate rally next season. There had been talk… Read more by David Evans November 25, 2022 2 min
WRC Opinion Would Saudi Arabia be good for the WRC? Cast your mind back. Back to school. Back to PE. It’s netball. Or rugby. Captains are out front picking their teams. This name. That name…. Read more by David Evans May 14, 2022 3 min
Off-Road Features The female Saudi trailblazer making waves on the Dakar Dania Akeel doesn’t see herself as a female racer. Instead, she’s simply ‘a racer’ whose competition is the clock and the rest of the field,… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon March 15, 2022 5 min
Off-Road News Saudi Arabia to host its first-ever women’s only rally-raid event The first-ever women’s only rally-raid event, Rally Jameel, will take place in Saudi Arabia on March 17-19. Sanctioned by the Saudi Automobile & Motorcycle Federation (SAMF)… Read more by Luke Barry January 5, 2022
Extreme E News RXR on top after XE semifinals Rosberg X Racing, Team X44, and Andretti United locked into the first Extreme E final after a pair of semifinal races at Saudi Arabia’s Desert… Read more by Dominik Wilde April 4, 2021 2 min
Extreme E Features Impressions of the “very cool” Desert X-Prix course On reflection, the bloke waving at us from a field a handful of miles back might have been trying to tell us something. Three red… Read more by David Evans April 2, 2021 3 min
Extreme E Features How Extreme E is leading by example Extreme E hasn’t been afraid to set its ambitions high. Essentially, it wants to change the world. The manifesto on the series’ website reads “The… Read more by Anna Duxbury April 1, 2021 3 min
Extreme E Opinion DirtFish’s early impressions of XE’s first venue After three and a half days in Saudi Arabia, I’ve just seen my first camel. And another. And another. And there’s a man on a… Read more by David Evans March 30, 2021 3 min
Extreme E Features Rosberg’s dark-horse Extreme E contender “Nico doesn’t enter a team to lose, so there is a fair bit of expectation for us to do well.” As preparations for the inaugural… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon March 28, 2021 5 min
Extreme E News Scheider makes history with first-ever Extreme E lap Timo Scheider has completed the first-ever lap of an Extreme E course driving one of the all-electric ODYSSEY 21 race cars at the Saudi Arabian… Read more by David Evans March 28, 2021
Extreme E Opinion Off-road racing’s shift from electric future to present Hello from Jeddah. I know it’s not normally my turf, but the first round of Extreme E has brought me to the Kingdom of Saudi… Read more by David Evans March 27, 2021 3 min
Off-Road Video Video: Why Prodrive is taking on Dakar with Loeb The Dakar Rally is one of the toughest, most demanding motorsport events in the world and, for Prodrive, it’s a challenge that is long overdue…. Read more by DirtFish Media January 9, 2021 1 min
Dakar Features Seven editions that shaped the Dakar Rally Returning as a defeated competitor on the Abidjan-Nice Rally having been rescued from the desert after getting lost, Thierry Sabine was an inspired man in… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon January 2, 2021 5 min
Dakar News Dakar still on for now as travel exception set to be granted The 2021 Dakar Rally is still currently going ahead as planned next month as the Saudi Arabian government is set to grant an exemption to… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon December 22, 2020 2 min
Off-Road News Dakar faces cancellation as Saudi Arabia shuts borders January’s Dakar Rally is thought to be under threat by revised Saudi Arabian government policy which could limit the movement of people into the country… Read more by DirtFish Media December 21, 2020 2 min
Dakar News Al-Attiyah beats Sainz in Ha’il Baja Dakar Rally warm-up Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Nasser Al-Attiyah kicked off the final Dakar Rally preparations with a hard-fought victory in the Ha’il Baja, the fourth round of the… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon December 12, 2020 3 min
Dakar News Dakar Rally 2021 route and entry list finalized The final itinerary and entry lists for the 2021 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia have been released by the event’s organizer, the ASO. Dakar director… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon November 25, 2020 3 min
