Falls, petrol and first setbacks
Laia Sanz never boasts about her 11 trial-biking world championships. She arrived on the Dakar rally last year and put in one of the more promising performance: 45th for a discovery of the rally that was not to eventful. On this first part of the 2012 edition, the Catalan has seen...[more]
A word from Etienne Lavigne
Operation Guillaumet [more]
1988: All in disarray in Algeria
For its 10th edition, the Dakar saw the number of participants exceed the 600 mark. Peugeot, who joined the adventure the previous year, set out to defend its title. The first visit to the Ténéré Desert was as majestic as it was terrifying. One hundred competitors dropped out of...[more]
Tarmac, coffee and grease (act II)
The life of a mechanic on the Dakar is almost as demanding as that of a racing rider or driver, whether working for an amateur competitor with modest means or for the X-Raid team, the largest at the bivouac. Tom Mederer, engineer for the German team, tells us about how the group works and how the roles are distributed. Sometimes, however, events dictate that plans change… [more]
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