Dakar

Team Peugeot-Total’s Stephane Peterhansel, Cyril Despres and Sebastien Loeb are ready to tackle the fifteen stage Silk Way Rally.

Robby Gordon and the SPEED Energy Hummer will return to the deserts and dust of South America for the 2013 Dakar Rally, which starts from Peru for the first time.

Nasser Al-Attiyah will become Citroën Racing’s third driver after signing a deal to drive a factory-spec DS3 WRC from Rally Sweden onwards.

The dust – both figurative and lung cloggingly real – have now settled on the 2011 Dakar Rally. 407 teams of bikers and drivers set off from Buenos Aires and…

Cordoba – Buenos Aires 181km After two weeks on one of the hardest races on earth the surviving riders and drivers of the 2011 Dakar Rally had just 181km of…

San Juan – Cordoba Bikes, Quads, Cars: 555km; Trucks: 266km Stage Twelve marked the penultimate stage of the 2011 Dakar Rally, and the final ‘real’ challenge for the 205 crews…

Chilecito – San Juan 370km Following the long trek over the Andes on Stage Ten, a 370km special lay in wait for the competitors on Stage Eleven, as the 2011…

Copiapo – Chilecito 176km As the 2011 Dakar Rally enters the home stretch the competitors re-enter Argentina. A long – 686km – road section brought the field back over the…

Copiapo – Copiapo 235km On a map today’s loop to the north of Copiapo is an innocuous stage. However, the short 235km stage took the competitors through (across and over)…

Antofagasta – Copiapo 508km Stage eight saw a mix of winners. In some classes it was the predictable winner, a leader only extending their lead in the overall standings. In…

Arica – Antofagasta 273km After a well earned day off the remaining drivers and riders – 125 bikes, 17 quads, 92 cars and 46 trucks – of the 2011 Dakar…

Iquique-Arica 456km Today’s sixth stage brought the Dakar to Arica – the most northerly point on this year’s route, just a stone’s throw from Chile’s border with Peru. But for…

Calama – Iquique 423km After crossing the Andes yesterday today’s run to Iquique took the 2011 Dakar almost to the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Today saw almost the exact…

San Salvador du Jujuy, Argentina – Calama, Chile 207km After a marathon stage yesterday – which claimed more than its fair share of racers – stage four was only a…

San Miguel du Tucuman – San Salvador de Jujay Bikes, Quads: 521km; Cars: 500km; Trucks: 226km Another day heading to the north meant the longest stage of the Dakar so…