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The main Dakar event might seem gruelling enough, but some are bravely taking on the Saudi stages in vintage machinery – some over 50 years old

Audi has revolutionised WRC and WEC, now its new target is Dakar – Motor Sport got up close to its electric challenger, the RS Q e-tron

Carlos Sainz has rued the time lost to navigation and reliability issues on his Audi Dakar debut, describing the roadbook troubles are “unacceptable”, but adding that “without problems, we have…

Danilo Petrucci has said he was "crying like a baby" after becoming the first former MotoGP rider to win a stage of the Dakar. The KTM rider, who is riding…

I had no hesitation in accepting an invitation from GM-Opel in January 1983 to visit the Alps and watch preparations for the Monte-Carlo Rally. Apart from the possibility of being…

Ask most devotees of rallying which is their favourite event, and you’ll usually get one answer: Finland, the spiritual home of the sport, where cars seemingly defy the laws of…

Conventional wisdom dictates experience can be a deciding factor in the direction of the World Rally Championship title. Kalle Rovanperä doesn’t deal in conventional wisdom. While the 21-year-old Finn has…

Not since Audi asked if anybody minded four-wheel drive and turbocharging being used on the stages has such significant change come to the World Rally Championship. From the series’ inception…

Somewhere in a Welsh forest a Hillman Avenger rally car sits gleaming in the cool November sun. Its driver Tony Jardine and its navigator Allan Harryman, son of the legendary…

Sébastien Loeb will once again hit the Monte Carlo Rally's mountain roads as he makes a comeback with M-Sport, driving the team's new Rally1 Puma

The Roger Albert Clark Rally was billed as a return to the gruelling days of the sport's past, with stages held across Britain, night running, and the cruel November weather.…

After a tumultuous 24 hours the Roger Albert Clark rally resumed its timetable at lunchtime on Sunday, under the clear but very cold skies of Wales. The Gartheiniog stage was…

There was an air of nervous excitement in the air of the Roger Albert Clark paddock on the morning of the second day, and if the previous evening had been…

The RAC initials, the cold November air, and the Kielder forest backdrop gave the beginning of the Roger Albert Clark Rally a nostalgic feel, even before the first of 140…

February 18, 1979. Notionally the focus should have been on Richard Petty as he extended his Daytona 500 victory tally to six in the first full NASCAR race broadcast live…

Twenty years after the event, all that’s left is a sentimental blue and yellow kaleidoscope of memories: a vertiginous rush of details made all the more poignant by the fact…

Dakar Rally 2022, January 2-14 Audi says it is facing one of its greatest challenges in motor sport with its entry to the Dakar Rally in 2022. The Four Rings…