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2009 Dakar Rally
2009 Dakar Rally, 31st edition and first held in South America (Argentina and Chile), January 3-18, 2009, Buenos Aires loop, 9,574 km; winners Coma, Machacek, De Villiers, Kabirov.
2013 Dakar Rally
2013 Dakar Rally, held 5–20 January 2013, Lima to Santiago via Peru, Argentina, Chile; 8,000 km. Winners: Despres (bikes), Peterhansel (cars), M. Patronelli (quads), Nikolaev (trucks); 299 of 449 vehicles finished.
2014 Dakar Rally
2014 Dakar Rally, 36th edition, 5–18 January 2014, Rosario to Valparaíso via Bolivia's debut. Winners: Marc Coma (bikes), Nani Roma (Mini cars), Ignacio Casale (quads), Andrey Karginov (trucks); 47% finish rate.
2018 Dakar Rally
2018 Dakar Rally: 40th edition, January 6–20, run through Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina from Lima to Córdoba. Winners: Carlos Sainz (Peugeot, cars), Matthias Walkner (KTM, bikes), Ignacio Casale (quads), Eduard Nikolaev (Kamaz trucks).
2019 Dakar Rally
2019 Dakar Rally, 41st edition, held January 6–17, 2019 entirely in Peru, start and finish in Lima, first single-country Dakar. Winners: Al-Attiyah (cars), Price (bikes), Cavigliasso (quads), López (SxS), Nikolaev (trucks).
2020 Dakar Rally
The 2020 Dakar Rally, the 42nd edition and first held in Saudi Arabia, ran January 5-17, 2020 from Jeddah to Qiddiya over 12 stages; Ricky Brabec (bikes) and Carlos Sainz (cars) won, with two rider fatalities and a record 69.3% finish rate.
2021 Dakar Rally
2021 Dakar Rally, 43rd edition, second Saudi Arabia edition, held 3–15 January 2021 as a 7,646 km Jeddah loop with 4,767 km of specials; Peterhansel won cars, Benavides bikes, Sotnikov trucks; Dakar Classic debuted.
2022 Dakar Rally
2022 Dakar Rally, 44th edition, held in Saudi Arabia January 1-14, 2022, from Ha'il to Jeddah; first W2RC round. Winners: Al-Attiyah (cars), Sunderland (bikes, GasGas first), Sotnikov (trucks).
2022 World Rally-Raid Championship
The 2022 FIA World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC) was the inaugural rally-raid world championship, won by Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar, with Toyota taking the manufacturers' title.
2023 Dakar Rally
2023 Dakar Rally, 45th edition, held in Saudi Arabia December 31, 2022 to January 15, 2023; 14 stages, longest route since 2014. Winners: Al-Attiyah (cars), Benavides (bikes), van Kasteren (trucks), Eryk Goczał (SSV).
2023 World Rally-Raid Championship
2023 FIA World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC), second season, five rounds from Dakar to Rallye du Maroc; Nasser Al-Attiyah and Baumel won the drivers' title on 205 points, Toyota the manufacturers' title, Honda the FIM manufacturers' crown.
2026 Dakar Rally
2026 Dakar Rally, 3–17 January, Saudi Arabia, Yanbu loop of 7,999 km. Benavides beat Brabec by 2 seconds on bikes; Al-Attiyah won a sixth car title for Dacia.
2026 World Rally-Raid Championship
2026 World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC), fifth FIA-FIM rally-raid season: five rounds on four continents, Dakar opener won by Nasser Al-Attiyah, Sébastien Loeb leading the FIA standings, Daniel Sanders FIM champion, Abu Dhabi finale, Dacia departing.
Baja 1000
Baja 1000, originally the NORRA Mexican 1000 Rally (first run November 1, 1967, founded by Ed Pearlman), is SCORE International's annual non-stop ~1,000-mile off-road desert race down Mexico's Baja California peninsula for trucks, buggies, motorcycles, quads, and UTVs.
Cyril Despres
Cyril Despres (born 1974, Fontainebleau) is a French rally raid racer, five-time Dakar Rally motorcycle champion (2005, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013) with KTM, later a Peugeot car-class driver with a 2017 Dakar podium.
Dakar Rally
Dakar Rally (Rallye Dakar, formerly Paris-Dakar): annual rally raid founded by Thierry Sabine, first run 1978-79 Paris to Dakar; Africa 1979-2007, South America 2009-2019, Saudi Arabia since 2020; ASO-organised, W2RC round.
Dakar Rally fatal accidents
Dakar Rally fatal accidents: deaths of competitors, spectators, and staff since 1979, totaling 77 by 2023, including the 1986 helicopter crash that killed founder Thierry Sabine and four others.
Dakar Rally in Africa (1979–2007)
The African-era Dakar Rally, founded as the Paris–Dakar in 1979, crossed Europe and the Sahara to Dakar until security threats moved it to South America in 2009.
Lucas Cruz
Lucas Cruz Senra (born 1974, Barcelona), Spanish co-driver and computer engineer; won the Dakar Rally four times navigating Carlos Sainz with Volkswagen, Peugeot, Mini, and Audi, including the first electric-vehicle win in 2024.
Marc Coma
Marc Coma i Camps (born 1976), Spanish rally raid rider from Avià; five-time Dakar motorcycle winner (2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015) with KTM, six FIM cross-country titles, later Dakar race director, KTM Spain CEO, and Alonso's 2020 co-driver.
Michel Périn
Michel Périn (born 1957, Saint-Mihiel) is a French rally co-driver, four-time Dakar car winner: 1994-1996 with Pierre Lartigue (Citroën ZX) and 2014 with Nani Roma (MINI), plus four FIA Cross Country World Cup titles.
Nasser Al-Attiyah
Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah, Qatari driver born 1970, six-time Dakar Rally car winner (Volkswagen, Mini, Toyota, Dacia), record 20 Middle East Rally Championship titles, 50 Dakar stage wins, and London 2012 Olympic skeet bronze medalist.
Rally raid
Rally raid is a form of off-road motorsport in which competitors cover long distances over natural terrain, navigating from a roadbook rather than a pre-driven course.
Silk Way Rally
The Silk Way Rally is an international rally raid marathon for cars, trucks, and motorcycles, held since 2009 on routes across Russia and neighboring Eurasian countries with Gazprom as main partner.
Toby Price
Toby Price (Toby Joseph Price, OAM), Australian rally raid racer; two-time Dakar Rally bikes champion (2016, 2019), first Australian and first non-European bikes winner; later switched to cars with Toyota.
World Rally-Raid Championship
World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC), FIA-FIM cross-country rally-raid world championship launched in 2022, promoted by A.S.O. Five rounds including the Dakar; Al Attiyah, Baumel, and Toyota won the first 2022 titles.