One final test in Abu Dhabi is now all that stands between the four Red Bull KTM Factory Racing riders and the 10-day event being held exclusively in Peru. Fielding an exceptionally strong team that includes three previous Dakar winners, Red Bull KTM will fight for their 18th consecutive victory at the prestigious annual event. […]
New Delhi: Wheels of Hope. If there is anything that could best describe motorcycle to Gianna Velarde would be these words. Riding on those two wheels, Velarde was able to withstand the 16 rounds of chemotherapy and 32 radiation treatments she received to eliminate a cancer of the lymph nodes. And today, she is all […]
The assembled Red Bull Desert Wings squad for the 2019 Dakar Rally boast over 30 previous wins at the prestigious offroad marathon. These desert racers are aiming to chase down even more success when the next edition of the Dakar sets off from Lima, Peru on January 6. With race organisers Amaury Sport Organisation unleashing the official […]
It is now just around 40 days until the Dakar Rally gets started in Peru and the cars have already arrived in the French port of Le Havre, from where they will travel by ship to South America. In addition to the three MINI John Cooper Works Buggies and Nani Roma’s MINI John Cooper Works […]
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – Toyota Gazoo Racing SA’s team for Dakar 2019 was announced at the WRX event at the Killarney Raceway in Cape Town today. The three-car team will be fielding the latest evolution of the race-proven Toyota Hilux in South America, when they tackle the world’s most grueling automotive race in January […]
On Monday and Tuesday, the three MINI John Cooper Works Buggies completed their final kilometres before commencing their voyage to Peru. The X-raid MINI John Cooper Works Team used the Magna test track, near Steyr, for the final test. The engines for the MINI JCW Buggy and the MINI JCW Rally are developed and assembled […]
Projekt Dakar – 100% Unique 100% Female Annett Fischer is very well known in the Cross-Country Rally scene. Since 2012 she is supporting the X-raid MINITeam as sports physiotherapist during FIA world cup races as well as during the legendary rally Dakar. But Annett is not only a physiotherapist. Within the past decade she gained […]
Sébastien Loeb headed to the Netherlands this weekend to debut his Peugeot 3008 DKR that he will be taking on the 2019 Dakar Rally with.The PH Sport run private entry will be backed by Red Bull as Loeb bids to become the first privateer since Jean-Louis Schlesser in 2000 to win the event outright. Image: Red Bull […]
Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa has thrown down the gauntlet in their quest for the missing piece of their Dakar Rally puzzle: the overall first place.Since their debut in 2012, the team has secured three second places and three third places in the cars category and team principal Glyn Hall has made their intentions clear […]
Nine-time World Rally Champion and recent Rally Catalunya winner Sébastien Loeb will sensationally return to the Dakar Rally next year as a privateer, backed by Red Bull.The 44-year-old Frenchman, who won his 79th WRC rally in Spain last weekend, will drive a Peugeot 3008DKR navigated by Daniel Elena. This is similar to the car with which he finished runner-up to […]
Bugatti has made no secret of the fact that it is ready to expand its range beyond the existing Chiron.The first model will reportedly be an even faster version of the Chiron, which might or might not be named the Super Sport and is expected at the 2019 Geneva Auto Show. This, however, is just another variant of […]
(Originally published on www.rallyraidnetwork.com) The uncommon succession of events affecting the Dakar provided us with the perfect opportunity to discuss a topic related with the support of the races by the official authorities, something that we were wanting to do for quite some time. Dakar is the biggest rally of the world by all terms, […]
Aussie Steve Riley is set to conquer Dakar in a Holden ute. WHEN we spoke to Victorian dairy farmer Steve Riley back in 2014 about his then-new all-wheel-drive V8 Holden ute, he told us that ultimately he would love to take it to Dakar.“Dakar would be the ultimate goal, but it requires a huge investment of […]
The new Audi e-tron FE05 that will defend the ABB FIA Formula E Championship teams’ championship was unveiled in a ‘digital launch’ event on Thursday.The new design has completed its development testing phase with running largely conducted at both the Mallorca test facility and at Audi’s own track at Neuburg, Germany. Lucas di Grassi […]
Top contenders for Dakar Rally glory on two and four wheels are in Morocco this week for an offroad battle royale. The prestigious Rallye du Maroc will test racers and their machines over a punishing six-day schedule. A win in Northwest Africa is sure to put the victorious crew on pole position ahead of a trip to Peru next […]
The crackle of excitement surrounding the 2019 Dakar Rally just got a whole lot louder. The new X-raid MINI JCW Team will be taking their place on the starting grid in Peru with a line-up of exceptional driving talent. Former Team Peugeot Total drivers Carlos Sainz, Cyril Despres and Stéphane Peterhansel boast a staggering 20 Dakar victories between them. The trio will each […]
In the 1970s, Porsche consulted with Soviet automaker Lada. One of the results was this, the Lada Samara T3, a Paris-Dakar rally competitor with a flat-six engine and Porsche 959 all-wheel drive. Here’s a piece of Porsche history you probably didn’t know about: Back in 1975, Viktor Polyakov, the Soviet Union’s automotive industry minister, made […]
Carlos Sainz Sr will enter the 2019 Dakar Rally to defend his title after signing with the X-raid Mini squad alongside Stephane Peterhansel and Cyril Despres, Motorsport.com has learned.Sainz made clear it after winning his second Dakar last January that if he received an attractive offer that would allow him to continue fighting to win […]
The joint effort between South Africa’s Neil Woolridge Motorsport and Brazil’s X Rally Team is leading the overall classification after two days of competition in the Rally dos Sertões. Current car champions Cristian Baumgart and Beco Andreotti, in great form, won the first two rounds in the chase for their third consecutive title and lead […]
Lorenzo Santolino blitzed the sandy terrain of Jaisalmer on his Apache RTR 450EX to clinch the crown in the 2018 iteration of India Baja, one of the demanding rally events in the country. India’s star rider, CS Santosh of Hero MotoSport, came in second while TVS Racing’s Abdul Wahid Tanveer, who won the ticket to […]
Rookie hero de Klerk aims even higher South Africa’s reigning Dakar car rookie champion Hennie de Klerk will be heading back to Peru for the 2019 event intent to deliver a top-twenty finish on top of that rookie car performance last time around. The Pretoria privateer will confirm his TreasuryOne team’s car and other details […]
As the 41st edition of the Dakar Rally nears, the organizers have released some official initial information.The 2019 Dakar Rally, the endurance off-road event coined as the “world’s toughest race,” will take place in South America once again. But this time the entire event will occur in Peru, beginning and ending in the Lima, the country’s capital. […]
Monster Energy Honda Team continues with the preparations for the 41st edition of the Dakar while the official confirmation that the event will go ahead has been announced. It has also been revealed that the world’s toughest race will take place, in its entirety, in Peru over a total of ten stages. Race organizers of […]
The motorcycle rider, Joey Evans who was paralyzed from below his chest in 2007 not only learnt to walk again but went on to realise his dream by finishing the Dakar Rally last year, will try a new facet of motorsport when he will read the notes from the navigators’ seat for Terence Marsh (Red-Lined […]
The 2019 Dakar Rally will take place entirely in Peru, its government has confirmed, after declaring it an “event of national interest” on Thursday. This comes after weeks of uncertainty about the event next January, as the Andean country’s government questioned the economic requirements of holding the Dakar, both in terms of investment in infrastructure and […]
The fate of the 2019 edition of the Dakar Rally appears to be hanging in the balance, with sole host country Peru reportedly threatening to pull out over financial concerns.Last month, Dakar organiser ASO announced a 2019 route taking place entirely inside Peru, following Bolivia’s withdrawal and Chile dropping out of a planned return at the […]
Earlier this year, driver Carlos Sainz Sr. and co-driver Lucas Cruz won the 2018 Dakar Rally. The duo won the Dakar in the Team Total Peugeot 3008 DKR. The Drive previously announced that Peugeot was leaving the Dakar after 2018 making Sainz Sr.’s Dakar future unknown, possibly until now. Motorsport reports that Carlos Sainz Sr. is in talks with […]
Ever since the 2018 edition of Dakar Rally ended with his second victory, there were a lot of suspicions about the future of Carlo Sainz. Now we have the answer: the defending champion returns with X-Raid in 2019, turning down the offer of Toyota that was also on the table. After winning his second title […]
The Dakar Rally officials plan to ask Argentina, Bolivia and Chile if they are interested in being on the route before deciding in a few months whether to return to Africa following the 2019 edition, the endurance race’s director, Etienne Lavigne said on Monday. “We know today that there’s a difficult situation in countries like […]
Toyota SA Motors will again be supporting the Road to Dakar initiative at this year’s Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1,000 Desert Race. This race-within-a-race was previously known as the Dakar Challenge, and offers privateer crews the opportunity to win a free entry to the world’s toughest automotive race, the Dakar Rally. “We believe the Road to […]
Plans are underway to return the famous Dakar Rally to Africa, a decade after the last race was held on the continent because of security problems in Mauritania, Etienne Lavigne, the Director of Amaury Sport Organisation, which organises the competition, has said. ] “We already have some avenues open, notably in Algeria, Angola and Namibia, […]
➢ Edition 41 of the Dakar will be contested from January 6th to 17th 2019, on a giant loop rally-route entirely in Peru with the start and finish in Lima. ➢ Mapped around the Peruvian deserts, the 2019 Dakar promises to be one of the sandiest in the history of the rally. While the expanded […]
The eyes of Dakar competitors and followers will be focused on Paris today where the organisers of the Dakar ASO will make their presentation on the 2019 South American Dakar. They have quite a few problems that need to be addressed and it is not going to be easy to set the minds of those […]
Bolivia will not host the Dakar Rally in 2019 amid ongoing disagreements with organisers ASO over the race course, government officials announced Tuesday. Bolivia has hosted stages of the race every year since 2014, which was “highly beneficial both financially and for the global promotion of Bolivia as a tourist destination”, according to the local minister for culture […]
Chile will not be among the hosts in the 2019 edition of the Dakar Rally due to a policy of fiscal austerity, although the country hopes to return to the motorsports competition in 2020, Chilean Sports Minister Pauline Kantor has said. “We are facing a delicate financial situation, which is why we are implementing […]
One week ago, we published some news that there was an approach between the Chilean government and ASO in order to close the deal for the 2019 edition of Dakar Rally to pass or much probably start there. The local media is reporting that the negotiations are still on-going, and that even some organisation members […]
Hero MotoSports Team Rally, the motorsport division of the world’s largest two-wheeler manufacturer, Hero MotoCorp Ltd., will begin its ‘Road to Dakar 2019’ campaign with the 2018 Merzouga Rally to be held in Morocco from 15th – 20th April 2018. This will be the Team’s first international rally of the year. The Hero MotoSports Team […]
Good news: The former factory Peugeot 3008 DKR Maxi – and parts of the former team – will be in new hands. The French “Easy Rally” team, based in the Village of Tossiat, will buy three of the Peugeot 3008 DKR Maxi and founded the team “Easy Rally Raid”. Next to the cars, the teams […]
Algerian authorities and organizers of the Dakar Rally are discussing the probable return of this famous race to Algeria, the President of the Algerian Federation of Motor-sports, Chihab Bahloul, said on Sunday. Bahloul was quoted as saying by TSA news web site that “the Algerian Ministry of Sports met with the rally organizers, and agreed […]
There is no doubt that this time of the year the one of the most productive in what can be considered “rumours” about the next edition of Dakar Rally. We have already spoken about this many times, and the fact is that we can only be sure of what comes ahead when ASO reveals the plans for […]