Defending champion Carlos Sainz Sr has been forced to withdraw from the Dakar Rally 2025 after a big crash on the second stage of the event left his car with irreparable damage. Sainz, the father ...

A bout 327 kilometers into the 2025 Dakar rally, defending champion Carlos Sainz rolled his shiny new Ford Raptor down a dune on stage 2.While he and co-driver Lucas Cruz were able to get righted ...

Starting with a heavy-duty tubular chassis and carbon fiber body panels, Ford’s Dakar Rally vehicle was made to withstand ...

British writer and explorer Wilfred Thesiger described the wastelands of Saudi Arabia as “a desert within a desert, so ...

Four-time winner Sainz raised the white flag ... I feel like this is our 10th day on the Dakar," said Rajhi on his arrival at the bivouac of the rally, which began on Friday.

This iconic rally driver is one of Spain’s most decorated off-road racers and remains in stunning shape at 62 thanks to a ...

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, ...

M-Sport Ford has hailed a “great start” to its factory programme in cross-country rallying after Mattias Ekstrom finished on the podium in the 2025 Dakar Rally. Having already tested the waters in ...

Sainz was the only Ford entry to retire ... Local hero Yazeed Al-Rajhi took his first Dakar Rally win by less than four minutes in his privateer Overdrive Racing Toyota Hilux – a remarkably tight ...

For the first time since 1994, the overall Dakar winner won on home soil as Yazeed Al Rajhi became the first Saudi Arabian to win the desert rally. The only other competitor to win at home was Pierre ...