Yazeed al-Rajhi made history on Friday by becoming the first driver from host nation Saudi Arabia to win the Dakar Rally.

For a few years now, New Atlas has picked some of its favorite pictures from the grueling, multi-thousand-mile desert race ...

Rajhi becomes the first driver to win on home soil since Pierre Lartigue won the Paris to Dakar to Paris rally in 1994.

Al Rajhi won as a privateer Toyota entry in a Dakar that Toyotas dominated after Carlos Sainz Sr.'s Audi ... was forced to exit the rally during stage three following a crash in stage two.

The Dakar Rally has been held in several countries since its inaugural edition in 1979, but no driver had managed to lift the ...

Factory Ford team secures third place► Al-Rajhi wins on home soil► One of the closest finishes in Dakar history Ford has scored a podium finish on its Dakar Rally debut. Mattias Ekstrom finished third ...

Saudi Arabia have hosted the Dakar Rally since 2020 ... Four-time winner and defending champion Carlos Sainz exited on the second stage after an accident. A stage later it was France's nine ...

M-Sport Ford has hailed a “great start” to its factory programme in cross-country rallying after Mattias Ekstrom finished on ...