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
America’s Robby Gordon took victory in the 11th stage of the Dakar Rally, which was shortened due to the poor weather conditions.
The simultaneous flooding of two rivers at the 69 and 85-km marks forced the race direction to halt the special after the first control point, just 84 km into the stage, originally 219 km long.
Gordon, driving a Hummer, was fastest when the stage was … More
Stephane Peterhansel continued to cruise in the lead of the Dakar Rally as his X-raid teammate Orlando Terranova set the pace on stage 10.
Terranova’s pace on the Cordoba to La Rioja stage made him the first Argentinian driver to take a Dakar stage win, and also the first man to set a fastest time in a BMW since 2010, the last year before X-raid switched to Minis for its main assault  … More
Nani Roma went fastest on the ninth stage of the Dakar Rally while his X-raid Mini teammate Stephane Peterhansel opened up a big lead as chief rival Nasser Al-Attiyah hit trouble.
While Peterhansel was able to set the second-best time on the 368-mile run from Tucuman to Cordoba in Argentina, Al-Attiyah’s day consistently got worse.
After losing around seven minutes to … More