Land Rover Gears Up for Dakar Rally with New Defender D7X-R Prototype: Powered by 4.4L twin-turbo V8 and to be piloted by a star driver lineup.

The Land Rover Defender Dakar D7X‑R began testing in the Sahara Desert ahead of the 2026 Dakar Rally. The car has a 4.4-liter twin-turbo V-8 engine.

Imagine you’re sitting right-seat in a multi-million dollar off-road racing truck in the Dakar Rally. Your driver is flat out, speeding towards the towering dunes of the Empty Quarter in Saudi ...

Yazeed Al-Rajhi becomes the first driver to win on home soil since Pierre Lartigue won the Paris to Dakar to Paris rally in 1994.

Dakar Rally participants know what they're signing up for: a gruelling two-week ordeal they have no guarantee of completing. But this storied event was born of an even more extreme and dangerous ...

Hero MotoSports Team Rally has successfully completed the second stage at the Dakar Rally 2025.

Carlos Sainz Sr. and co-driver Lucas Cruz suffered a dramatic crash during the 2025 Dakar Rally. Thankfully, both parties were unharmed.

Veteran rally driver Carlos Sainz Sr. faced a major challenge at the 2025 Dakar Rally when his Ford Raptor flipped during the second stage of the event. Fortuna ...

Hero MotoSports Team Rally has kicked off its campaign at the 47th edition of the Dakar Rally.

Can anyone enter the Dakar Rally? Any person of any nationality who is over the age of 18 and holds an International FIA/FIM Cross-Country Rally license may apply for entry to the Dakar Rally.

The Dakar Rally, a 12-stage automotive quest across the vast deserts, rocky mountains and coastal plains of Saudi Arabia, begins Friday, Jan. 3 at 8:00 p.m. ET on the NBC Sports Channel and continues ...

The Dakar Rally is one of the most famous international motorsporting events, with some of the best rallying drivers in the world taking part. However, the days of it going to Dakar or anywhere in ...