The Dakar Rally or simply "The Dakar" (French: Le Rallye Dakar ou Le Dakar), formerly known as the "Paris–Dakar Rally" (French: Le Rallye Paris-Dakar), is an annual rally raid organised by the Amaury Sport Organisation. The rally is an off-road endurance event.

DAKAR 2025: CONSECRATION FOR SANDERS AND AL RAJHI. Ultimate: Patience proves the wiser for Al Rajhi • With a solid return to the Dakar following his absence in 2024, Henk Lategan moved into the lead at the halfway point, added a stage success to his roll of honour and held steady until the ninth special when he suffered from having to open ...

Jan 23, 2025 · Image source: Dakar. The 2025 Rally Raid series continues with a brand new round in South Africa, the South Africa Safari Rally from the 18th to the 24th of May, in the North West and Limpopo provinces. For more information, head to – www.sarallyraid.co.za

Dec 12, 2024 · With fifty-five percent of the Car entries designed, built and developed in the country, and a large contingent of cars, drivers and crews racing too, South Africa quite literally owns the Dakar. But will that be enough for another win? Of …

Jan 17, 2025 · Saood Variawa of South Africa and Francois Cazalet of France represent Toyota Gazoo during stage 2 during the Dakar rally 2025 on 6 January 2025 in Bisha, Saudi Arabia. (Photo: Qian Jun/MB Media ...

With fifty-five percent of the Car entries designed, built and developed in the country, and a large contingent of cars, drivers and crews racing too, South Africa quite literally owns the Dakar. But will that be enough for another win?

Dec 17, 2024 · Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa has put the final touches to its GR DKR Hilux Evo bakkie ahead of the 2025 Dakar Rally with a gruelling testing session in Namibia's dunes. The 2025 Dakar Rally, which kicks off on 3 January, will see crews race across nearly 8 000km of Saudi Arabia's toughest terrain.

Jan 17, 2025 · Alfie Cox and Giniel de Villiers were pioneers. Not as the original trailblazers who launched the Dakar in late December 1978, but as rally nuts who jumped in at the turn of the millennium and did well enough to trigger a game-changing movement back home in South Africa.

Nov 8, 2024 · Following a dominant 2024 season in the South African Rally-Raid Championship (SARRC), TOYOTA GAZOO Racing South Africa (TGRSA) is set to take on the world’s toughest motorsport challenge: the Dakar Rally.

Jan 3, 2025 · South Africa’s Henk Lategan won the Dakar Rally prologue in the cars category on Friday, kicking off the sixth edition in Saudi Arabia that will stretch nearly 8 000km across 12 stages.