The intrepid smugglers bought a truck, gave it a race livery and a crew, complete with matching uniforms, and shipped the whole thing to a farm that was situated close to the Paris-Dakar course.

The 2025 racing campaign kicks off overseas with the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia for ... eight classes ranging from dirt bikes to massive trucks. In total, this year’s event has attracted ...

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The Porsche 911 Dakar Owners Club, however ... who has a background in rally racing and automotive event planning, to start building a calendar of events. Chatter about serial numbers and tire ...

Race organizers refer to the Dakar as having lived through three chapters ... desert prototype that only resembles its namesake truck in the vaguest sense. The V-8 soundtrack was unmistakable ...

Cars like the 9th place finisher No. 224, a cutting-edge prototype hybrid car built specifically to run the 2022 Dakar race, are often disposed of once everything that can be learned from it is ...

This isn’t Ickx’s first time at Dakar, either. On top of his experience in the Formula racing series ... An all-American deluxe truck Speaking of missing information, Genesis doesn’t ...

Two-time WRC champ Miki Biasion could choose a gas- or diesel-powered version of the Fiat Panda to race in the Dakar rally. He took the diesel for "a matter of weight distribution and fuel economy." ...

Visit the Praga website and you’ll be confronted with a veritable menagerie of custom motorcycles, racing karts, Dakar trucks and, erm, lightweight aircraft. The Czech firm is also a dab hand at ...