Willem Avenant sipped on a coffee with bruised and calloused hands and a big smile, one of profound accomplishment.

The Dakar Rally 2025 promises to be a thrilling adventure as it takes competitors across some of the toughest terrains on the planet. Whether you’re cheering from the USA or South Africa ...

Do a pair of Yamaha XT500s still have what it takes, 40-plus years later?

Audi’s brief three-year stint competing at the Dakar Rally surprisingly ended with a victory last year as the German ...

The Dakar Rally, one of the toughest and most respected off-road races in the world, covers a distance greater than the total combined mileage of an F1 season in just two weeks. Over some of the ...

Sabine had so much fun nearly dying in the African dunes that he organized an international rally based on desert navigation. The very next year, 170-odd people raced with him from Paris to Dakar ...

Yazeed Al-Rajhi made history this year by becoming the first Saudi driver to win the Dakar Rally in the car category. Al-Rajhi piloted his Toyota Hilux to victory by outpacing tight competition ...

For the first time since 1994, the overall Dakar winner won on home soil as Yazeed Al Rajhi became the first Saudi Arabian to win the desert rally. The only other competitor to win at home was ...

Ford has scored a podium finish on its Dakar Rally debut. Mattias Ekstrom finished third in the M-Sport-run, V8-powered Ford Raptor, just 20 minutes behind the winner in one of the closest ...