SANTIAGO, Chile — France’s Stephane Peterhansel and Cyril Despres defended their car and motorbike titles in the Dakar Rally on Saturday.
Peterhansel, leading the race since the second stage on Jan. 6, became the most successful driver in the world’s toughest rally with his fifth victory in cars to go along with a record six on a motorbike  … More
Stephane Peterhansel clinched his 11th Dakar Rally victory with a calm run to the finish in Santiago on Saturday.
The Dakar legend utterly dominated the majority of the 2013 event, establishing his X-raid Mini up front even before the potentially faster Red Bull Buggies of Nasser Al-Attiyah and Carlos Sainz dropped out. Peterhansel’s eventual margin of triumph was  … More
This is the 34th annual running of the rally which is named for the famed race from Paris to Dakar, Senegal.
Stephane Peterhansel remained on course for another Dakar victory as his X-raid Mini teammate Nani Roma surged into third on stage 12.
Roma set the pace on the Fiambala to Copiapo leg and in the process snatched the final podium spot from fellow X-raid man Leonid Novitskiy  … More