The world around us was khaki and brown—a sprawling sea of sand, with tracks carved in the dirt for makeshift roadways.

Toyota privateer Yazeeh Al-Rajhi emerged as a surprise winner in the cars class, becoming the first Saudi Arabian driver to win the Dakar Rally, and that too on home soil. In the bikes class ...

When it comes to automotive events, it’s rare that I’m unsure of what to expect. World-class concours, 24-hour endurance races, local cars and coffee gatherings, cruise-ins, weekend drags—been there, ...

But if I'm thinking about, say, the first-ever running of the Dakar Rally, what I think I know about motorcycles in the ...

Genesis brand ambassador Jacky Ickx, 80, drove part of the 2025 Dakar Rally ... The father-daughter duo rekindled memories of their 2000 Paris-Dakar-Cairo Rally journey. The rally icon took ...

The very next year, 170-odd people raced with him from Paris to Dakar ... The history of the Dakar Rally can be abbreviated into three chapters: the African years (‘80s and ‘90s, mostly ...

This isn’t Ickx’s first time at Dakar, either. On top of his experience in the Formula racing series, the 80-year-old racing driver previously won the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1983 with Mercedes ...

Start of the final stage of the 2025 Dakar rally. Photo courtesy Dakar.com. The 47th edition of the Dakar and the 6th in Saudi Arabia was completed in Shubaytah by 175 vehicles. 77 bikes ...

The France captain left Paris Saint-Germain ... returns to Israel. - Spanish bike rider Carles Falcon dies at the age of 45, eight days after a crash during the Dakar Rally.

In a recent column about the Cagiva 906 Elefant SP (link) I briefly referred to the works Paris-Dakar racers. Here is Edi Orioli’s winning bike from 1990. 1990 Edi Orioli’s winning Cagiva ...

The era of Dakar cars being based specifically on their road-going counterparts had gone as the ‘80s gave way to the 1990s. In fact, it is a car we will come to shortly that served as the basis for ...