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Dakar Archive
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2011 Dakar Rally Preview – Runners And Riders
Posted on December 28, 2010 | No CommentsThe Dakar Rally is perhaps, the biggest challenge in motorsport. Just as people around the world are muttering something about ‘never drinking again’ as they wake up on New Year’s... -
VW updates ageing Dakar challenger
Posted on July 7, 2010 | No CommentsAfter five years of faithful service, Volkswagen is finally putting the Race Touareg 2 to rest, and releasing a new 3rd generation model to compete in next year's Dakar Rally. -
2010 Dakar Rally Recap: Not Just The Winners
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsTwo weeks. 9,000 kilometres. Nearly 400 started. Less than 200 finished two weeks later. Sometimes numbers are really all you need to sum up an event. For the second year... -
2010 Dakar Rally Stage Ten: Sainz Takes First Stage Win
Posted on January 17, 2010 | No CommentsCarlos Sainz won his first stage of this year’s Dakar Rally to extend his overall lead in the car category over VW teammates Nasser Al-Attiyah and Mark Miller. So far... -
Dakar Rally Stage Nine: Al-Attiyah Reels in Sainz in VW Fight
Posted on January 12, 2010 | No CommentsFog was the first problem that the 211 remaining entrants in the Dakar Rally had to face on the ninth stage. However, luckily (or unfortunately depending on your appetite for... -
2010 Dakar Rally Stage Eight: Penalties And Record Chasing
Posted on January 11, 2010 | No CommentsAfter a rest day on Chile’s Pacific Coast the 2010 Dakar reconvened for the eighth stage, a 472 km run south back for Antofagasta to Copiapo including a 90km stretch... -
2010 Dakar Rally Stage Seven: The Longest Day, But Also The Quietest?
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No CommentsThe final stage before the halfway rest day on the Dakar Rally saw the longest single stage of the rally, at 600km, as competitors took on sand dunes, salt flats,... -
2010 Dakar Rally Stage Six: Two Comeback Wins, One Rider in Hospital
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsAnother day in South America on the Dakar Rally saw another long stage, this time 418km heading north in the Atacama Desert, passing though rocky trails, across the driest place... -
2010 Dakar Rally Stage Five: Despres and Miller Win, Rivals Suffer
Posted on January 6, 2010 | No CommentsToday the Dakar Rally went from one extreme to another, following yesterday’s short stage with a 483km long epic, skirting Chile’s Atacama Desert between Copiapo and Antofagasta. The result was... -
Dakar Rally Stage Four: Robby Gordon Takes Stealth Win
Posted on January 6, 2010 | No CommentsThe fourth day of racing on the Dakar Rally had a distinct “the morning after the night before feel,” with many competitors, especially the privateer riders and drivers, still recovering... -
Dakar Rally Stage Three Report: Wins for Despres and Peterhansel
Posted on January 5, 2010 | No CommentsToday the real 2010 Dakar started, with the rally leaving the WRC-esque gravel tracks of the first two days behind and striking out into the desert with a 182 km... -
Dakar Rally Day Two Report: A Familiar Cloud But The Race Goes On
Posted on January 3, 2010 | No CommentsThe second day of the Dakar Rally got underway in sombre mood today after the confirmation that a spectator hit by one of the cars had died in hospital. Reports... -
Dakar 2010 Day One: Reigning Champions Off The Pace
Posted on January 3, 2010 | No CommentsThe 2010 Dakar Rally is underway, and already the strain is showing on the men and machines taking on the 4,000km of racing ahead of them. The first casualty didn’t...
