The Dakar Rally—often known simply as as The Dakar—still remains esoteric and impenetrable for competitors and fans alike nearly 50 years after the first running.

Jan 15 (Reuters) - Spanish motorcycle rider Carles Falcon has died more than a week after crashing in the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, his team said on Monday. Falcon, 45, had been in an induced ...

The Dakar ‘The Dakar’ began life in 1978 as the Paris-Dakar Rally. It ran annually from France to Senegal until 2007 but when the 2008 event was cancelled due to security concerns, the rally ...

The race is comprised of 5,000 miles, which includes 3,000 miles in timed specials, throughout Saudi Arabia. Below is a breakdown of coverage for the 12 stages that make up the Dakar Rally.

Welcome to Dakar Rally 2023 Direct flights to Jeddah from Los Angeles take at least 15 hours, passing almost directly over the North Pole on the way.

In 2018, those in the motorcycle industry began hearing whispers that Yamaha was getting ready to unveil a new version of the Ténéré. In 2019 Europe was the beneficiary of the new Ténéré 700.

The 911 Dakar is also available with a Rallye Design Package that features the iconic white, red, gold and blue livery of the Rothmans-sponsored Porsche 911 that won the 1984 Paris-Dakar rally.

Dakar, Senegal, to be exact, on January 14, 1979. Of the 170 starters, only 74 competitors managed to cross the finish line – a testament to the difficulty of the rally.

They serve to complement the existing Rallye Design Package, a tribute to the Rothmans livery that the Porsche 953 wore to victory in the 1984 Paris-Dakar Rally, later seen on the Porsche 959 too.

Maybe you haven’t heard of the 953—it ran the Paris-Dakar Rally only once, in 1984, with René Metge piloting it to victory. It used the 911’s first experimental four-wheel-drive system ...

The rally began in 1978 as a race from Paris across the Sahara to the Senegalese capital of Dakar, but switched to South America in 2009 for security reasons. It moved to Saudi Arabia in 2020 and ...