Dakar News

Carlos Sainz has been hit with a 10-minute time penalty for an incident with a quad rider at the 2018 Dakar rally to see his overall lead cut to under an hour.

Stephane Peterhansel has battled back into the podium places at the 2018 Dakar rally with his 40 th career stage victory at the iconic event as overall leader Carlos Sainz saw his healthy lead trimmed, while Monday’s stage nine has been canned due to weather conditions.

Carlos Sainz has taken the overall lead of the 2018 Dakar rally thanks to back-to-back stage wins coupled with Peugeot team-mate Stephane Peterhansel's lengthy stop with a broken left-rear suspension.

Carlos Sainz has chipped away at Peugeot team-mate Stephane Peterhansel’s 2018 Dakar Rally lead with his first stage victory of this year’s event as the rally left Peru for Bolivia.

Stephane Peterhansel has returned to the top of the leaderboard at the 2018 Dakar Rally with victory on stage five as former leader Sebastien Loeb is forced out of the event.

Sebastien Loeb has clinched victory on stage four of the 2018 Dakar Rally to chip away at Stephane Peterhansel’s lead as Peugeot profits from its rival’s issues to take a 1-2-3 in the standings, while defending bike champion Sam Sunderland retires from the event.

Nasser Al-Attiyah has won his second stage of the 2018 Dakar Rally to jump into third overall in the classification and break the Peugeot domination at the top of the leaderboard.

Cyril Despres has taken control of the 2018 Dakar Rally on the first marathon day of the event as Peugeot locked out the top two spots.

Two-time Dakar Rally winner Nasser Al-Attiyah has set the early pace on the short opening stage to the 2018 edition of the iconic endurance event as he heads up a Toyota 1-2, while brake trouble saw Sebastien Loeb tumble down the order.

Hollywood puts in an 'Oscar' winning performance at Castle Combe as the rally world makes its annual pilgrimage to the West Country

Luc Alphand, winner of the Dakar Rally back in 2006 and leader of his own Luc Alphand Aventures sportscar team, has been seriously injured during an accident in France.

Team Gordon Off-road has announced that it will run a third Hummer in the 2010 Dakar Rally for ex-F1 man, Eliseo Salazar.

Luc Alphand's rollercoaster of a Dakar Rally took one final plunge downhill on stage six, as his recovery towards the top five was halted by the loss of co-driver Gilles Picard.

The leader's curse affecting this year's Dakar rally struck again overnight with confirmation that BMW X-Raid's Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah had been thrown out of the event for missing a series of hidden waypoints on stage six of the two-week event.

Robby Gordon kept the #309 Monster Energy Toyo Tires Hummer inside the overall top ten on the 2009 Dakar Rally despite rolling the machine into a ditch during the fourth leg of the event on Tuesday.

Luc Alphand led the way for Team Repsol Mitsubishi Ralliart as he attempted make up for lost time on the fourth leg of the 2009 Dakar Rally between Ingeniero Jacobacci and Neuqu?n in western Patagonia.

Carlos Sainz moved to the lead of the Dakar Rally on Sunday's second stage, completing the test with the fastest time and jumping into the lead of the event.

Mitsubishi Motors Corporation and its motor sport unit, the Repsol Mitsubishi Ralliart team has confirmed that it will once again field a four-car line-up on the 31st Dakar Rally.

Colin McRae's decision to race in the Paris-Dakar Rally in 2004 could rule the Scot out of driving for Subaru in the FIA World Rally Championship.