Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge

If 350km of soft-sand dunes in temperatures nearing 40 degrees in one of the most inhospitable and sparsely inhabited places on earth wasn't a hard enough challenge for the competitiors, those who had survived this far also had to contend with a sandstorm...

I said yesterday that the temperature felt more than the 36 degrees I was told it was. Well, it was. It was actually 46! I had a chance to borrow a car this morning so after deciding that the ashphalt road from th start looked a bit too  boring I set off with...

After the devestation of the leaderboard yesterday with so many tales of woe it seemed that the leading positions were already set... but the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge is a Rally-Raid at the far end of the extreme scale... and nothing can be taken for granted. It...

No one had too much to say about the prologue, but if anyone had a free and easy smile on their face yesterday it was  wiped off clean off today... The bivoauc looks like a battlefeild with mechanics clambouring over cars and hitting pieces of metal...

Considering theat there are almost 1000 grueling kilometres of desert tracks in one of the world's most inhospitable places coming up in the next 5 days, a 2km track around a building site might not mean much... but it serves two purposes; it provides...

The duo Leonid Novitskiy/Andreas Schulz (RUS/GER) and Stéphane Peterhansel/Jean-Paul Cottret (FRA/FRA) will take part in the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, the second round of the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies, from April 2-7. Five stages lead...