Following from the successful trip in 2013 when Gordon Clarke and Nick Craigie travelled to and rode the 13 Rallye ( Gordon finishing a very commendable 15th overall ) two riders are making the trip for the 2014 rallye. Vincent Dooley who has previously been to Africa in 1996 for the Dakar rallye and Dubai […]
Dakar Rally 2015: Nasser al-Attiyah to switch to Toyota 2015 After Stéphane Peterhansel, now also the former Dakar-rally winner Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah from Qatar will leave the X-raid team and want to start with Toyota in the Dakar Rally 2015… Full article: http://www.marathonrally.com/news/24458.0.html
The Going Gets Tough on Stage 3. Watch the video update here : http://www.redbull.com/en/motorsports/offroad/stories/1331624437323/daily-dakar-diary-stage-three
Riding for TEAM HRC, British rider Sam Sunderland was a worthy winner of the Dakar’s second special, his first stage win of his career in the Dakar Rally. The second stage of the Rally Dakar brought the riders from San Luís to San Rafael, taking in a total of 354 km against the clock, and […]
Irish rider Gordon Clarke, aboard a TM 450 EN kitted to full rallye specification, acquitted himself brilliantly to finish a fine 16th overall at the Merzouga Rallye which finished yesterday at Erfurt in South Morocco. Completely unacquainted with the rallye discipline Gordon showed he has the speed, fitness and intelligence to run with the […]
Good day for Gordon . Nick perservates to complete another incredibly hard day .Thursdays stage of 220k was very difficult and physically punishing . So No one thought that Fridays 230 km stage could be any moredifficult but it was . Criss crossing the highest points of both the Chebi erg and erg Rasini the […]
MSG just came from Nick : “16:20 Finish Day 3Good and bad day for Nick and GordonThe good news is Nick’s fuel problem was OK today. Not perfect but at least good enough to run…. 6.25 am, I think it’s Thursday !. Gordon going well. Had good steady day yesterday no problems. Has set in […]
Never seems to matter how prepared you are its always last minute .com…. Nick and Gordon have arrived at the rally. Unfortunately they didn’t realize it was a holiday yesterday and could not get the hire car! This means they arrived a day late. Getting in late Saturday after an 11 hour drive (which Gordon […]
DESPRES TAKES FOURTH DAKAR TITLE; ELEVENTH WIN FOR KTM Red Bull KTM factory rider Cyril Despres on Sunday rode into Lima in triumph to seal his fourth career Dakar title and to present KTM with its eleventh consecutive win in this, the toughest event on the annual motorsports calendar. His KTM teammate Marc Coma finished […]