January 14, 2026 bivouac refuge-bisha, saudi arabia

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

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

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

MCN Sports Editor and adventure riding expert

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

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