When the Dakar Rally gets underway in Yanbu on Jan. 3, it will be the seventh time the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has hosted this legendary event. As the opening round of the FIA-FIM Rally-Raid World Championship (W2RC), the rally will unfold through stages across nature, following a new route...

Nasser Al-Attiyah went into the 44th Dakar Rally as a firm favorite and lived up to it, completing a dominant run to victory in Friday's final stage of the world's most grueling motorsport event.The Qatari off-road ace and his co-driver Mathieu Baumel put in a masterful performance throughout the two-week...

Yazeed Al-Rajhi looked set to lead the way in today's fourth stage of the Dakar Rally, but the Saudi driver was handed a two-minute penalty for speeding with his Overdrive Toyota (pictured above), dropping him to fifth and handing the day's top billing back to overall leader Nasser Al-Attiyah. However,...

Nasser Al-Attiyah took a dominant victory on stage 10 of the 2015 Dakar Rally, as X-raid Mini teammate Nani Roma spectacularly crashed out.Al-Attiyah's fourth stage win of the event boosted his advantage to more than 28 minutes with main rival Giniel de Villiers dropping over four minutes with the fifth-fastest...

Nasser Al-Attiyah maintained his Dakar Rally lead at eight minutes as the event reached its rest day, with fellow World Rally Championship regular Yazeed Al-Rajhi scoring his first stage win.Giniel de Villiers had carved three minutes out of Al-Attiyah's lead on stage seven on Saturday, and made further gains early...

An unwell Nasser Al-Attiyah's Dakar Rally lead was trimmed by Giniel de Villiers on Saturday's marathon stage, from which Orlando Terranova emerged with the fastest time.In a change to the format for 2015, competitors have to do without their service crews and assistance trucks for the middle weekend, carrying only...

Nasser Al-Attiyah extended his lead in the Dakar Rally after taking his third stage victory in six days of competition. The Qatari, however, was followed closely by his main rival so far, South African Giniel de Villiers, who finished just 37 seconds behind the rally leader in the 277km special.Al-Attiyah's...