Dakar

Loeb to race with Peugeot on the 2016 Dakar

Sebastien Loeb, nine-time World Rally Car champion, will race on the 2016 Dakar Rally with Peugeot, completing the "Dream Team" with Cyril Despres, Carlos Sainz and Stephane Peterhansel.   The French driver won 9 consecutive WRC...

Quintanilla wins, Coma takes the lead as Barreda loses the podium

Although he was unlucky on his first two participations on the Dakar, fortune today smiled on Pablo Quintanilla. The Chilean won his first special stage and climbs onto the provisional podium in the general...

Rodriguez wins in Atacama stage; Barreda extends his leadership

Héleder Rodrigues has been the fastest on stage 6 of 2015 Dakar motorcycle edition in the desert of Atacama. Toby Price and Paulo Gonçalves were second and third, only two minutes behind. Barreda Bort...

Coma comes to the fore

Battling with Joan Barreda since the start in Buenos Aires, Marc Coma finally tasted victory on the Dakar 2015, regaining 2’16’’ on his countryman. Barreda, far from panicking, is focusing on controlling his lead...

Walkner the fastest of stage 3, Barreda still on the lead

The stage 3 of the 36th Dakar in motorcycle was a quiet day. Barreda keeps the leadership as Marc Coma closes in, but the surprise of the day was Matthias Walkner who was the...

Barreda takes the longest stage victory and becomes the new leader

Joan Barreda made an important step in the longest stage of this 2015 Dakar edition, in a 518 kilometers of distance which the Valencian made in slightly more than five hours. The Honda star...

Sunderland, first Dakar 2015 leader for bikes

British rider Sam Sunderland took first stage for bikes in Dakar 2015. This makes him become first leader in general classification after this short special stage of just 175km long. The young british rider, just...

Peterhansel shift into fifth gear!

Chilean Francisco "Chaleco" López, which puts him on par with Cyril Neveu in the race's palmarès and just one win away from Stéphane Peterhansel's record. He can also pride himself on the fact that he...

Yamaha Mours the death of Jean-Claude Oliver

The bivouac in Tucumán has been shaken by tragic news from across the ocean. Jean-Claude Olivier, a former boss of the Yamaha France team, died in a traffic accident in France this morning. He...