After Monday’s quick taste of the dunes, things got serious on stage two of the 2019 Dakar Rally with a race route of 350 kilometres laid out for the competitors. The challenging route created drama all the way as former winners were caught out by the shifting sands and newcomers pounced to take advantage of any slip […]
Just when most thought the Peugeot Dakar era was over following the factory team’s exit, French rally legend Sebastien Loeb driving a privately entered 2017 3008 DKR racer, delivered a crushing performance to win Tuesday’s second stage from the squabbling pack of Nani Roma’s Mini, Bernard Ten Brinke and Giniel de Villiers’ Toyotas and the […]
– Stage 2 brought major excitement early in the Dakar, thanks to a ding-dong battle amongst the leaders. In the end, however, it was Sebastien Loeb (Peugeot) who posted the fastest time, some 8 seconds faster than MINI’s Nani Roma. However, the biggest gains were made by Toyota Gazoo Racing SA’s Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von […]
Matthias Walkner, KTM, has won the second motorcycling stage by grabbing victory from the hands of Ricky Brabec in the last kilometres of the special, beating the American by 22 seconds after having ridden the entire special in the Honda rider’s wake. The title holder has thus sent out a strong message to his rivals. […]
By: Valentin Khorounzhiy Loeb, contesting the race in a PH Sport-run 2017-spec Peugeot 3008 DKR, gradually pulled clear over the 342 timed kilometres on the run between Pisco and San Juan de Marcona – only to nearly lose the stage win in the final stretch. Ending up a mere eight seconds quicker than X-raid Mini driver […]
There is only one way to predict who the winner of the annual Dakar Rally Raid will be, and that is to wait until the fact lady finally sings. The second stage today between Pisco and San Juan de Marcona the included a 342 special showed that the Dakar is one of those events that […]
– It was a fantastic start to Dakar 2019, when Toyota Gazoo Racing SA’s three-Toyota Hilux team tackled the opening stage of the race on Monday, January 7th. Former race winners Nasser Al Attiyah and navigator Mathieu Baumel set the pace from the start, winning the opening stage by just shy of two minutes over […]
By: Andrew van Leeuwen Co-author: Sergio Lillo Carlos Sainz says early Dakar leader Nasser Al-Attiyah has emerged as a ‘clear favourite’ from the first 84 competitive kilometres of this year’s event.Al-Attiyah made light work of the opening stage of the 2019 Dakar, running second through the dunes behind Sainz before catching the Spaniard’s Mini Buggy with around […]
Focus… Pisco is not only the city that has given its name to Pisco Sour, a cocktail that is the pride of the country as well as a source of many arguments and discussions with their Chilean neighbours about just who invented it. Since 2012 and the first visit of the Dakar, it has been […]
By: Valentin Khorounzhiy Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa driver Nasser Al-Attiyah topped the opening stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally in Peru. The Qatari completed the dune-populated 84km timed stage near Pisco, which came after a lengthy road section that started at Peruvian capital Lima, in 1h1m41s. Al-Attiyah, a two-time Dakar winner whose most recent triumph […]
The “King of Cross Country Rally Raids”, Nasser Al- Attiyah, in a Toyota Gazoo Racing Hi-Lux made his intentions clear on the first stage of the Dakar Rally that started in Lima this morning.He laid down the marker on the first stage and although it was a short stage Al-Attiyah did not hang around. He […]
Despite organizers claiming all through 2018 that this year’s Dakar Rally would start in January 6, the racing will really start tomorrow, on January 8.This year’s race takes place entirely in the country of Peru; it ends on January 17, and will cover 5,000 km. About 3,000 km of the race will be in sand, […]
The new president of the FIM, the global motorcycling governing body, wants the Dakar Rally to become part of the Cross-Country Rallies World Championship from 2020. Jorge Viegas, who was elected last year to succeed Vito Ippolito as FIM President, has travelled to the Peruvian capital of Lima to hold talks with Dakar organising body ASO, […]
The Lima 2019 Pan American Games mascot will accompany Games ambassador and rally driver Nicolas Fuchs Sierlecki on his attempt to complete the Dakar Rally. Lima 2019 say the mascot, Milco, travelled to Pachacamac, 40 kilometres southeast of Lima, to meet Sierlecki and assess the car before the race in Peru. It is said the […]
The high-speed action is now underway at the 2019 Dakar Rally. Following Sunday evening’s start podium in Lima, racing has commenced at the 41st edition of the world’s toughest race. There was a party atmosphere in Magdalena del Mar as all 334 vehicles and 541 competitors that will race the Dakar were waved off by thousands of […]
541 competitors and 334 vehicles —137 motorbikes, 26 quads, 130 cars (including 30 S×S) and 41 trucks— were cleared to start the 41st edition of the Dakar at the end of the technical and administrative scrutineering. Before the start of the race, the drivers, riders and crews will get a big send-off from the fans during the podium ceremony in Lima. The celebration […]
The 41st edition of the Dakar Rally – an instalment that organisers promise “unparalleled intensity” – gets underway in Peru on Monday morning, with Australian off-road motorcyclist Toby Price determined to claim a second Dakar win.Less than a month ago, Price broke a bone in his right wrist. In a more conventional sport, the Gold […]
Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa has to capitalise on the opportunity to claim a milestone first Dakar win for the Japanese marque in 2019, says team manager Glyn Hall. Toyota Hilux cars finished as best of the rest behind the dominant Peugeots in the past two editions of the Dakar, with Gazoo drivers Nasser Al-Attiyah […]
The car category boasts the greatest field since 2015, with 130 vehicles —including about 30 S×S— expected to take the start in Lima on 7 January. The X-Raid Team was dealt the best hand following the reshuffling of the elite deck since last January, with star signings such as 13-time Dakar champion Stéphane Peterhansel, Carlos […]
Peru’s dune epic starts Monday This Dakar preview is brought to you by Husqvarna Motorcycles SA, Shameer Variawa Racing and Red Lined Motoring Adventures.It’s all systems go for Dakar 2019 as crews gather in Lima in final preparation for the epic ten-day race through the dunes of Peru starting Monday 7 January 2019 with an […]
Lucas Barron will make history on Sunday when he lines up on the Dakar Rally starting line in Peru, becoming the first person with Down Syndrome to take part in the grueling race. The 25-year-old, who will be co-pilot for his father Jacques, will tackle the world’s most demanding rally: a 5,000-km, 10-day marathon, 70 […]
Sebastien Loeb says he will approach his first Dakar as a privateer with humility and patience when the marathon event starts in Lima on Sunday January 6. Loeb is tackling this year’s Dakar in a PH Sport-run two-year-old Peugeot 3008DKR following the French manufacturer’s withdrawal from cross-country rallying after its 2018 victory. Besides the age of his equipment, the other […]
LIMA, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) — A record 17 women will participate in this year’s Dakar Rally when the event gets underway in Peru next week.The figure is three more than the previous all-time high set last year, though it remains dwarfed by the number of male competitors, which will exceed 500 in 2019. Spain leads […]
Carlos Sainz Sr says the X-raid Mini team’s lack of Dakar Rally experience with its current buggy leaves him with reliability concerns ahead of the 2019 event. Sainz won last year’s edition of the rally with Peugeot, but the manufacturer’s withdrawal from cross-country rallying means he will defend his title with X-raid The squad has Dakar […]
When during Stage 10 of the 2018 edition of Dakar Rally, Czech Republic’s Tomáš Ouředníček gave a rope to his compatriot Martin Prokop pulling out Prokop’s Ford and thus saving his race, certainly neither of them knew that in a few months Ouředníček would receive a rope from Prokop. “We agreed to set out as […]
Hundreds are getting ready for a race with few comparisons. Cars, trucks, motorcycles and other vehicles will soon go off-road for a 9,000 kilometer trek across Peru. One racer explained his obsession to CGTN’s Michelle Begue. 34-year-old Christian Cajica has been riding motorcycles since he was eight-years-old. “My passion for motorcycles began at home. […]
Minsk Automobile Factory (MAZ) presents its first racing truck with more than 960 “horses” available. After a series of tests, the MAZ-SPORTauto team plans to use it to race several international rally raids. The racingtruck MAZ-6440RR took the best from three trucks of available from the range of the Belarus manufacturer The chassis came from […]
● Villas-Boas to drive a Maverick X3 in select CNTT events and Morocco’s Merzouga Rally ● Ruben Faria to drive second Maverick X3 Esteemed former Premier League soccer manager André Villas-Boas has reached an agreement with South Racing to tackle select rounds of his native Portuguese National Championship of Cross-Country Rallies (CNTT) and Morocco’s Merzouga […]
Carlos Sainz Sr, rallying legend and father of new McLaren driver Carlos Sainz Jr has called out for Fernando Alonso to take on motorsport’s toughest challenge, the Dakar rally.The race, which has taken place in South America since 2009 in seen as one of the most brutal events in motorsport, and only the hardest drivers dare to take it […]
The Spanish Rider Laia Sanz confirmed recently that she will be at the start of the Dakar Rally in Lima on January 66th after her full recovery from a very serious health problem. Laia suffered a double infection of virus and bacteria. The problems started on the spring of 2018, when the doctors detected one […]
Spanish racer Joan Roma, best known as Nani, urged organisers to consider returning the Dakar Rally to countries in Latin America such as Argentina and Chile, as the upcoming edition is to be held in Peru.During an event by organisers held here, Nani, who won the 2004 Dakar Rally riding a motorcycle and the […]
Epic 2019 race a true test of the dunes While some argue they should call it the Peru, Dakar 2019 is limbering up for a ten-day jaunt around the South American desert territory with cars, bikes, trucks, quads and side-by-side buggies vying for top honours in the various classes. There will also once again be […]
Husqvarna SA star Gilbert set for Peru As far as racing dreams go, there can be little bigger than racing the Dakar and that is exactly what former triple overall SA Cross Country Motorcycle champion Kenny Gilbert has set out to do. Gilbert ended second in this year’s SA championship by all of a single […]
Three years after his last appearance, the most successful American driver in Dakar Rally history is making his return. Robby Gordon is preparing to take on the Minis and Toyotas in his quest to win edition 41. Gordon is also entering two other cars under his team banner for his countrymen Blade Hilderland and Cole […]
This might be the first outing for the Eclipse Cross in the Dakar rally, but Mitsubishi is an old-hand at the race with the Pajero Evolution winning the rally 12 times. No other manufacturer or vehicle has come close to matching that tally. Commenting on the Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross T1, Gutierrez noted: “For me, it is a […]
It’s just a few weeks until the flag drops for the world’s most gruelling rally with the entire route running within the borders of Peru for 2019. A total of 334 vehicles are due to participate, all of which share the same goal to return to the capital after over 3100 miles of pure, hardcore […]
The upcoming Dakar will have a special car at the start line: the MitJet Off Road. Michiel Becx and his team are developing the two-wheel driven buggy for several yearst to contest the thoughest rally in the world. The Dutchman want a position in the top thirty with a team of own people and a […]
The domination of the Kamaz team continued in 2018 with the third victory for Eduard Nikolaev, despite the unsuccessful attacks of Fernando Villagra.But among the 41 trucks expected at the start in Lima, Team De Rooy will be stronger with the return of Gerard De Roy to the Dakar. The duel between the two favourite […]
You can’t place just any truck in the middle of the Dakar Rally. No, sir—what competitors need to survive the world’s most grueling off-road race is a certified beast. And for one team, this comes in the form of the purpose-built Nissan Navara T1 pickup truck. Built by Red-Lined Motoring Adventure—a custom off-road car and truck builder that also […]
More than 500 competitors from 61 countries and regions will participate in a historic edition of the Dakar Rally in Peru next month, race organizers said on Tuesday. The event will run from January 6-17 and begin and end in the capital Lima and span 5,000km, of which almost 3,000km will be timed. The route […]