Dakar Rally

Filed under: Motorsports, Truck, Volkswagen, Off-Road Volkswagen Amarok Dakar Support Vehicle - Click above for high-res image gallery The 2010 Dakar Rally, which is no longer run in Africa due to terrorism threats, kicked off from its designated starting point in Argentina on January 1st. Eventually, the competitors will end up back in Buenos Aires on January 17th, but not before traversing 5,600 miles of some of the toughest terrain on the...  

In this Jan. 1, 2010 photo, Italy's Manca Luca sits on his KMT bike as he prepares to compete in the Argentina - Chile Dakar Rally 2010 in Buenos Aires. Luca was seriously wounded after falling from his bike on Jan. 7 during stage six of the rally ...  

Four Wheeler Magazine (blog)Gordon Gets Stuck In Sand, Falls To Sixth Overall In Dakar RallySportingNews.com (blog)Stage 6 was a very disheartening outing for Robby Gordon in his Monster Energy / Toyo Tires Hummer, fall. Robby Gordon would end up ing to sixth place ...Dakar Rally - Stage 5: Good MomentumHardcoreRaceFans.comRobby Gordon Sits Fourth After Dakar's Fifth StageAHNToyo Tires stage 4 reportMotorsport.comFour Wheeler Magazine (blog...  

SANTIAGO, Chile – Carlos Sainz has extended his overall lead in the Dakar Rally by finishing second in a sixth stage won by Stephane Peterhansel. Peterhansel claimed a record 53rd stage victory on Thursday, beating Sainz by 47 seconds in the run ...  

Italian motorcyclist Luca Manca was fighting for his life on Thursday after crashing in the sixth stage of the Dakar Rally.The 29-year-old KTM rider - whose ambition for the race was to finish in the top five and who rated the level of danger of the race a seven out of ten - crashed just 10 kilometres into the 418km special from Antofagasta and after receiving treatment had to be taken to hospital by helicopter.However after an initial...  

Two crazy Chileans are running a mostly-stock Ford F-150 SVT Raptor in this years Dakar Rally, successfully completing at least four stages. They don't have Ford sponsorship, but should expect a case of pisco at their hotel if they finish.  

Photos: van Oers J./Marcelo Maragni/Red Bull PhotofilesAfter winning stage 5, Francisco Lopez (pictured above) and his Aprilia RXV 4.5 Dakar are in 2nd place overall in the Dakar Rally, an impressive standing for a non-factory team. KTM's Cyril Despres is...  

Stephane Peterhansel notched another stage win at the 2010 Dakar Rally today, his 53rd, as he seeks to make up lost time on the three leading Volkswagen Touaregs. In the Bike category Marc Coma is on a similar mission, scoring his 9th career stage victory as he chases Cyril Despres for the overall lead. ...  

Today the Dakar Rally went from one extreme to another, following yesterday’s short stage with a 483km long epic, skirting Chile’s Atacama Desert between Copiapo and Antofagasta. The result was one was of those days the Dakar Rally is famous for, with stage leads shifting and changing like the sands of the desert they’re racing through, and some competitors’ chances of an overall victory seem to have slipped though their fingers. Nowhere was...  

Red Bull KTM's Marc Coma may be out of the running for the overall title in the Dakar Rally, but it's not stopping the defending champion from putting out maximum effort. Today his hard riding resulted in a victory for the Spaniard in the 260-mile ...  

Defending champion Giniel De Villiers' race in this year's Dakar Rally is basically run. The South African finished the third stage almost three hours behind the winner, Frenchman Stefan Peterhansel after experiencing engine problems on the 259 kilometre stage from La Rioja to Fiambala.  

American Robby Gordon won the fourth stage of the Dakar Rally cars category on Tuesday, a 163km special stage from Fiambala in northern Argentina to Copiapo in Chile. Gordon, driving a Hummer, came in one second ahead of BMW's Stephane Peterhansel of ...  

It seems that fortune has turned for title holder Marc Coma (KTM) as the rally arrives in Chile. After losing nearly 40 minutes over the last two days, the Spanish biker finally earned his first victory in the fourth stage.  

A spectator has been killed at the Dakar Rally in Argentina. Officials said 28-year-old Natalia Sonia Gallardo was hit by a car driven by German Mirco Schultis, who had lost control of his vehicle around a curve. Five other people were hurt in the ...  

Agencies Fiambala (Argentina), Jan 5 - Frenchman Stephane Peterhansel won the third stage of the automotive portion of the 32nd Dakar rally Monday, between the northwestern Argentine towns of La Rioja and Fiambala. Peterhansel, who has won the Dakar rally nine times, also rose to the top of the overall table, relegating Qatar's Nasser al-Attiyah. The Frenchman, with a BMW, took 2.55:19 hours to complete the 182-km special, and was 5:44...