Rally Raids

Rally raid, also known as cross-country rallying is a form of long distance off-road racing that takes place over several days. Each day may require traveling up to 900 kilometers (560 mi). The length of the event can be 3–15 days.

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Audi is now facing up to the most extreme conditions. Audi is the first car manufacturer that has committed to develop a viable alternative drive concept for the Dakar Rally, making it a pioneer in motorsport once again. In 2012, Audi achieved the first victory of a hybrid racing car in the Le Mans 24 Hours. The Audi R18 e-tron quattro remained unbeaten in the world’s most important endurance race three times in a row. The Dakar Rally will replace Audi’s factory involvement in Formula E, which will no longer be continued in the form of an Audi factory team after the 2021 season.

The use of the newly developed Audi powertrain by customer teams will remain possible beyond next year.

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Kamaz Truck races a rally car on one of the world's most dangerous roads: the D-915 in Turkey. D-915 is one of the most challenging roads in the world. Located on the boundary of the Black Sea region and the Northeast Anatolia region, in northeast Turkey, the road is extreme, bordered by a drop of hundreds of meters unprotected by guardrails. It’s definitely not for anyone suffering from vertigo or a fear of landslides. Only the suicidal, the insane, or the paid-to-do-this should ever drive down. This road has humbled many egos. One mistake and it's a free fall to your death.

The road is 106km (65 miles) long and runs south-north from Bayburt (the provincial capital of Bayburt Province in the Northeast Anatolia region) towards Of (a small coastal town in Trabzon Province in the Black Sea region), via 29 sharp hairpin turns.

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Joining the Monster Energy Yamaha Rally Official Team in 2020 is Andrew Short, winner of the 2019 Rally du Maroc and runner-up in the 2019 FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship.

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Watch the full presentation as the route for the 2021 Dakar Rally is announced. The organizer ASO has announced the Dakar Rally will run entirely in Saudi Arabia for a second successive year in 2021, but on a route that is "100% new". Saudi Arabia had an exclusivity clause for the first year of the five-year deal, but the ASO had been working to add a second country for the 2021 race, with both Egypt and Jordan believed to have been considered to join their bordering Gulf nation. The 43rd edition of the event will begin on 3 January in Jeddah and conclude in the same coastal city on 15 January after 11 stages and a prologue that will determine the starting order for the opening special.

A rest day will be observed in the city of Ha'il on January 9.

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The DKR3 from Dakarspeed to be used by Maurik Van Den Heuvel at the Morocco Desert Challenge. The proven chassis comes out of the Czech Martin Macik (Big Shock Racing) shop, the cabin is an America International. The heart of the truck is a 13 liter Scania engine and an Allison automatic gearbox. Constructor Martijn van Rooij is delighted and eager to test the truck in a serious race.

It's the benchmark to be determined whether the truck is ready for the Dakar.

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U.S.-based Andretti Autosport has signed up as the sixth team to race in Extreme E next year, the electric off-road SUV racing series announced on Friday. Extreme E aims to highlight deforestation, rising sea levels, desertification, and plastic pollution with races in harsh and remote environments from the Brazilian rain forest to the glaciers of Greenland and deserts of Saudi Arabia. The Extreme E championship will unfold over five rounds of competition, each featuring two days of head-to-head knockout racing, highlighting the impact of climate change and human influences while raising awareness, driving sustainability and inspiring action.

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The Extreme E championship will unfold over five rounds of competition, each featuring two days of head-to-head knockout racing, highlighting the impact of climate change and human influences while raising awareness, driving sustainability and inspiring action.

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Africa Eco Race is an annual rally raid organized in North of Africa, as an answer to the cancellation of 2008 Dakar Rally, and the subsequent moving of the rally to South America, for those who wanted to live the real Dakar spirit. The rally has innovated to give a special focus on security issues and sustainable development.

In addition to the sporting aspect, the rally aims to put emphasis on individual awareness about eco-responsibility

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F1 world champion Fernando Alonso suffered a big crash on the 10th stage of the Dakar Rally as he rolled his Toyota twice. The Spaniard lost control of his Toyota Hilux while driving over a sand dune and subsequently flipped into a double barrel roll before landing back on its wheels.

Both Alonso and his co-driver Marc Coma were unhurt in the incident, and Alonso even proceeded to immediately drive away from the scene despite losing his windscreen.

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Stage 9 liaison : 476 km – Timed special > 415 km – Total = 891 km. With this long stage, the Dakar prepares to enter the “Empty Quarter”. The main factor will be driving precision, this time with mainly hard ground and a number of rough portions for those who are not careful enough.

On reaching Haradh, built around oil and agriculture, the rally enters a new phase.

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Overall standings #Dakar2020 motorcycles and cars after stage 8. The motorcycle and quad competitors remained in the bivouac today, following the death of motorcyclist Paulo Gonçalves yesterday.Today’s eighth stage, around the bivouac in Wadi Al Dawasir, shook up the timesheets at the Dakar 2020. Orlando “Orly” Terranova and Bernardo “Ronnie” Graue (both ARG) finished third in the MINI John Cooper Works Rally, behind Mathieu Serradori and Fernando Alonso. Jakub “Kuba” Przygonski (POL) and Timo Gottschalk (GER) ended the stage in sixth place.

The Bahrain JCW X-raid Team crew of Stéphane Peterhansel (FRA) and Paulo Fiuza (POR) cameback ninth in the MINI JCW Buggy. Their team-mates Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz were 13th. Although Sainz still holds the overall lead, ahead of Al-Attiyah and Peterhansel, today’s results have seen the gaps between the top three come down.

1 Carlos Sainz Bahrain JCW X-Raid Team Mini/BMW 31h56m52.s 2 Nasser Al-Attiyah Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 6m40.s 3 Stephane Peterhansel Bahrain JCW X-Raid Team Mini/BMW 13m09.s 4 Yazeed Al-Rajhi Overdrive Toyota Toyota 32m25.s 5 Orlando Terranova X-Raid Team Mini/BMW 43m02.s 6 Giniel de Villiers Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 53m12.s 7 Mathieu Serradori SRT Racing Century/GM 1h02m42.s 8 Bernhard Ten Brinke Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 1h07m00.s 9 Wei Han Geely Auto Shell Lubricant Team Hanwei/Geely 3h06m20.s 10 Jerome Pelichet Raidlynx Optimus/MD 3h09m47.s

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We are sad beyond words to share that Paulo Goncalves, passed away today. Paulo Gonçalves, racing on motorcycle Nr. 8, has passed away from a fall sustained 276 kilometers into today's special. A medical helicopter reached the biker at 10:16 and found him unconscious after going into cardiac arrest. Following resuscitation efforts in situ, the competitor was taken by helicopter to Layla Hospital, where he was sadly pronounced dead. 40-year-old Paulo Gonçalves was taking part in his 13th Dakar. He made his debut in 2006 and had finished four times in the top 10, including an impressive performance as runner-up to Marc Coma in 2015.

Paulo Gonçalves, the 2013 cross-country rallies world champion, was sitting in 46th place overall after stage 6 of the 2020 Dakar. Our thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family. A true champion, a great human being and, above all, a kindred spirit. RIP, Speedy Goncalves

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Top 5 in Moto and car class before the 7th stage (after rest day in Ryhad) Baja 1000 winner pretty much in control at the bikes with a 20 minutes lead. Things are a little more tight at car class. And again: day 7!!!

There are some mean stages still waiting to be conquered.

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It’s for all (Bikes - Quads - Cars - SxS - Trucks) the same today: 830km, liaison: 353 km / 219 miles, timed special: 477 km / 296 miles. The change of scenery from the last few days to now is dramatic. This time, the special stage is 100% sand, entirely off-road. After a relatively fast first section, obstacle experts will have the advantage in the dunes. Drivers having previously honed their skills in the Sahara Desert will certainly have the upper hand. Then it will be time to rest.

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For many reasons, Taye Perry will be one to watch in the bike race. Not only is she fun, smiles all the time, not only will she battle it out to become the first African woman to finish the Dakar on a bike, she’ll also be one of the smallest competitors in the history of the Dakar. But the fact she’s 1m58 certainly isn’t a concern for the South African “warrior” who started riding bikes from the age of 12.

Part of the Nomade Racing team, she learnt to adapt to the big KTM 450 rally bike and intends on surprising the world on the paths and in the dunes of Saudi Arabia.

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The Real Race to Dakar. The AFRICA ECO RACE perpetuates the Real Race to Dakar, created by racers in love with Africa, it’s landscapes and populations. The competitors will depart on the 5th of January 2020 from Europe and will travel over 6000 kms through Morocco, Mauritania and Senegal. The arrival will be organized on the 19th of January 2020 at the Lac Rose in Dakar, following the tradition!

For the 5th year in a row, the official departure of the AFRICA ECO RACE, "MONACO – DAKAR" will be done on the 5th of January 2020, from the Principality of Monaco, world famous temple of motorsports, on the Quai Antoine 1er.

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Mini driver Vaidotas Zala claimed a shock maiden stage win in the first special at 2020 Dakar Rally. Toyota’s defending champion Nasser Al-Attiyah led the way for most of the 319km timed special on the coastal stage from Jeddah to Al Wajh that kicked off the first ever Saudi Arabia-based Dakar. But the Qatari suffered three punctures late on, paving the way for an upset. Sainz made it a Mini 1-2-3 behind Zala and Peterhansel, while Al-Attiyah mitigated the damage from his late-stage travails in fourth place, 5m33s off the pace.

F1 Worldchampion Fernando Alonso finished stage 11th 15 minutes and 27 seconds off the pace set by the leader in his first-ever Dakar stage.

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Ricky Brabec (Mira Loma, California, 21st April 1991) proved himself to be one of the clear favorites in the most recent edition of the Dakar Rally. The rider could have even grabbed the final glory had it not been for a mechanical setback. From the Californian desert, this budding star of the Monster Energy Honda is, once again, poised to shine in the most important race of the year.

Physically, he does feel really good. Mentally, he's still working on it. He had a tough break in the 2019 Dakar and it was pretty hard getting back in the saddle and pushing for victory after that one. There’s a lot of emotions and mixed feelings.

We’re going to a different country, to Saudi Arabia, so no-one is familiar with the country and no-one has any insight into the route. We’re all going in pretty equal, not knowing what the heck is going on. It’s going be fairer. You know, it’s not going to be like, ‘Hey I know a guy that says that here is like this or whatever.’ We are all going in basically blind.

Image credits: Honda Racing Corporation - HRC