In the week since, I’ve spent precious little time thinking about anything else but the desert, and how the realities of today’s Dakar contrast with the rose-tinted race goggles of the past.

the 80-year-old racing driver previously won the Paris-Dakar Rally in 1983 with Mercedes-Benz, in addition to winning The 24 Hours of Le Mans six times. The Desert Edition is a one-off, ...

This zero-compromise desert race truck is prepped to take maximum advantage of the regulations imposed on Dakar rally vehicles, with a 2.3 liter five cylinder turbodiesel engine, an extremely low ...

With all due respect to Stanford University's race-winning robotic Touareg, this is the real VW desert racer ... cross-country competition - the Dakar Rally. Details after the jump.

"We had two guys with us who participated in the Paris Dakar rally and another one who did the Morocco Desert Challenge ... match that of his beloved racer. It's not a purpose-built off-roader ...

Throughout his career, he's become a dominant force in cross-country racing. Al-Attiyah won the Dakar Rally multiple times, and returns as a past champion of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge.

Audi's RS Q E-tron rally racer finished ninth overall in the 2022 Dakar Rally, but this week, it turned up in pieces in a ditch in Jiríkov, Czechia — left for scrap in an illegal dump.

Audi's RS Q E-tron rally racer finished ninth overall in the 2022 Dakar Rally, but this week, it turned up in pieces in a ditch in Jiríkov, Czechia — left for scrap in an illegal dump.

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Throughout his career, he's become a dominant force in cross-country racing. Al-Attiyah won the Dakar Rally multiple times, and returns as a past champion of the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge.