Set to be campaigned by the officially titled Defender Rally team, the D7X-R, based on the flagship Defender 110 OCTA, will take part in the so-called Stock class rather than the outright T1+ division ...

Land Rover is going racing next year at the Dakar Rally, and now it has a prototype Defender in testing to prove it. The brand’s Defender Dakar D7X‑R prototype began testing recently in the Sahara ...

Covering 5,000km, the Dakar Rally 2024 is made up of 1 prologue, 12 challenging stages and 14 days of racing.

CONGRESS, Ariz.CONGRESS, Ariz. — The hands are in constant motion, yo-yoing the wheel left, right, left in small corrections and full turns. The feet dance in the cramped space above the floorboard, ...

It's been almost a year since Land Rover confirmed that it is, in fact, headed to the Dakar Rally. Now, the iconic SUV ...

Involving nearly 5,000km of competitive racing over a span of two weeks, the World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC) will begin in January 2026. Making its debut at this historically challenging rally ...

Stéphane Peterhansel is, and we’re not putting this lightly, the King of Dakar. He’s raced Dakar 35 times, if you include the Central European rally that ran in 2008 when the actual Dakar was ...

Finishing the Dakar is an achievement in itself, winning it is career defining but taking the top spot five times is monumental. Enter Cyril Despres, without doubt one of the Dakar’s greatest-ever ...