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Ford announces maiden Dakar participation

The 24 Hours of Le Mans, Daytona, World Rally Championship (WRC), Formula 1 Grand Prix: many different trophies sit on Ford's shelves. But the American manufacturer has yet to take on the one of the Dakar Rally. It has decided to do it, and will start its journey on the race next January. The commitment, awaited by rally-raid insiders for several months, became official on June...

Dakar 2024 : a new step towards the future

The Dakar Rally organisers have invited French and Spanish competitors to Château-Lastours to mark the opening of registrations and announce the broad outlines of the 46th edition, which will include new competition and technological aspects. The rally's fifth edition in Saudi Arabia will be held from 5 to 19 January 2024, starting in the thousand-year-old city of AlUla,...

Dakar 2023: A bumper crop of records

Cars: Quiet aplomb carries the day for Al Attiyah

Scoring 5/20 is usually very bad news, but in the case of Nasser Al Attiyah, who claimed his fifth Bedouin trophy in his twentieth Dakar start (including the 2008 edition, as the bivouac is wont to do), his track record shows that he is one of the most keen-sighted and visionary competitors in the world of rally raids....