Belgium’s Overdrive Racing and Hallspeed of South Africa have joined forces and will send a 100-strong team of personnel to January’s punishing Dakar Rally.The entire operation — one of the largest ever to represent a team on the rally — will field 10 Toyota Hiluxes in the world’s toughest cross-country bonanza that starts in Buenos […]
After driving thousands of kilometres through the Morrocan desert, the Peugeot DKR 2008 is ready for the 2015 Dakar in South America.Here are some pictures of the car in its racing livery, ready for action. […]
As the countdown to the 2015 Dakar Rally begins to accelerate, the Peugeot-Total squad is continuing to develop the fearsome 2008 DKR at a frenetic pace with its three star drivers, including Cyril Despres, who is getting to grips with competing on four wheels for the first time. From 7am, Team Peugeot-Total is in action. […]
How do you make the Vauxhall Mokka interesting? Give it a V8 and take it rallying obviously.We at Top Gear love the idea of participating in the Dakar Rally. Sure, our attempts could almost certainly be filed under ‘ambitious but rubbish’, but it would at least be exciting. The 2014 Dakar, held back in January, […]
With less than one week to go until registration for the Desafío Inca closes, the drivers and riders who’ve already signed up will make up a star-studded field for the third and last leg of the 2014 Dakar Series. The start list features big names such as Spain’s Nani Roma and Chile’s Ignacio Casale (winners […]
Russian international athlete and Kamaz Master Dakar-participant Ilgizar Mardeev died in an accident while riding a quad bike on Sunday. A farewell ceremony for Ilgizar Mardeev took place on Monday at team’s production shop, reported the magazine TATAR-INFORM. According to Marathonrally.com, Ilgizar Mardeev began his career in 1975 as a miller at General Designer’s Department […]
Darryl Curtis has recently been appointed by A.S.O. as its Dakar representative for the riders coming from South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, from now on, to the Dakar 2016. His role will be to bring and share his experience of the Dakar to the riders community, and help the future candidates to […]
Following the sensational one-two-three-four they celebrated about a month ago in the Baja Aragon, the Monster Energy X-raid Team and Team X-raid now are going to contest the Hungarian Baja. The Trebur based team travels to the Hungarian city Pápa, located about an hour from Lake Balaton, with four MINI ALL4 Racing vehicles. The Monster […]
As the Dakar gets ever nearer, KTM keeps pushing the limits with its main weapon: The 450 Rally. No other manufacturer has been more successful in the Dakar Rally than KTM. The Austrian factory has won the last 13 editions. However, KTM is not resting on its laurels. In recent years, the Dakar changed radically when […]