A six-man team of mates from Wales experienced the toughest stage rally of them all. Paul Lawrence reports

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

The sixth Dakar Classic, in Saudi Arabia from 3-17 January, was the longest yet, at 7281km (more than 4500 miles) across the prologue and 13 stages. The rally started and finished in Yanbu, on the Red

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

Into my penguin suit and off to the Royal Automobile Club on London’s Pall Mall to enjoy Motor Sport UK’s Night of Champions, where the championship winners of 2025 were to be celebrated. If you think

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