With three wins apiece, Cyril Despres and Marc Coma are tied in the roll of honour of the Dakar. But it is not a done deal that one of the two champions will forge ahead of the other in 2012: the Aprilia, Yamaha, Husqvarna and Honda pilots, as well as their...
A few days to move to Argentina, where it will depart the next January 1, 2012 a new edition of the Dakar Rally which this year runs also in Chile and Peru, riders from Castellón joining SPEEDBRAIN by TEAM HUSQVARNA have been received by D. Luis Martinez,...
4: the number of titles up for grabs at the Dakar, including the motorcycle, quad, car and truck categories 9: the record number of victories at the rally, held by Stéphane Peterhansel with six wins on motorcycles and three in cars. Vladimir Chagin...
Arek Kwiecień / Terenowo.pl for Rallyraid.net: - Who will win The Dakar? Krzysztof Hołowczyc: - The best one! The best competitor with a lot of luck. And luck favours better drivers – I hope it will favour me and Jean-Marc too... Several other factors...
The make-up of the last teams to enrol on the Dakar held some major surprises in store, with the return of Johnny Campbell, to accompany Robby Gordon, as well as the rally-raid debut of former F1 driver Jos Verstappen, in a DAF truck. With less than...
The landscape in the truck category has been transformed by the retirements of Chagin and Kabirov, who between them had won nine of the last eleven editions. Whilst their usual challengers can take heart from this new situation, the Kamaz drivers remain...
The Dakar, the world´s best known rally raid race, will start in less than a month. The 2012 edition will begin in January 1st in Mar del Plata (400 km South from Buenos Aires) to cover Argentina´s North-West before crossing the Andes Mountains by San Francisco´s...
Car number 300 that is usually kept for the title holder will finally be present at the start of the 2012 Dakar. It will indeed be set on a Hummer that Nasser Al Attiyah will be driving for Team Robby Gordon, with Lucas Cruz as his co-driver. « As of now,...
