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Rabat - Competitors in the Paris-Dakar rally roared unharmed into the disputed Western Sahara on Sunday despite the threat of a return to all-out war by the Polisario Front independence movement. The ...
Jan. 8 -- A driver in the Paris-Dakar motor rally was injured by a land mine in Mauritania today, even as a Western Sahara rebel front lifted its threat to resume all-out war.
Next year the Paris-Dakar rally-raid will actually go from Paris to Dakar. In recent years the route has wandered all over the Sahara, last year runni ...
Removing the air-conditioning in the name of speed could be forgiven, but removing the drinks cabinet from a Rolls-Royce Corniche when converting it to tackle the arduous 1981 Paris-Dakar Rally ...
In this $252,270 Dakar, I’m a sideways rock star. I am Walter Röhrl. I am Jacky Ickx. And I want to drive this car the rest of the way across the Sahara.
The Dakar, formerly know as the Paris-Dakar Race and now in its 26th year, ... to long marathon runs over 450 miles in the Sahara Desert in blistering 100 degree weather.
As dawn breaks over Paris on New Year's Day, the 23rd Dakar rally will set off from the foot of the Eiffel Tower and begin a 20-day journey through France, Spain and the northwestern Sahara desert.
The Paris-Dakar Rally is one of the toughest tests in motorsport, pitting cars against blazing heat and sand dunes. Reaching the finish is impressive and cars that have completed the race are ...
Mark Thatcher, racing driver and son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in Africa for the 1982 Paris-Dakar Rally.