January 8, 2025 alula, saudi arabia

Dacia has won the Dakar Rally. Now there’s a sentence few would ever have expected to read just a few years ago. But under Renault ownership, the Romanian budget car brand has gained an entirely new a

Qatar legend’s sixth victory on rally-raid event was the first for Prodrive-run squad

The Dakar Rally bivouac is a vast, sprawling, transient community, a ragtag collection of vans, trucks and tents sprouting from the hardscrabble Arabian Desert. Walking through the camp is like steppi

The three Defenders that tackled this year’s Dakar Rally (p48) represented the first works entry on the gruelling rally raid from JLR or its predecessors. But it wasn’t the first time a manufacturer-o

Our rally correspondent Gerry Phillips mourned the deaths of Toyota team manager Henry Liddon and leading co-driver Nigel Harris in a light aircraft accident on Africa’s ‘other’ WRC round. The Japanes

In Yanbu, Al Ula and Ha’il, Saudi Arabia, James Roberts reflects on the desert rally raid experience