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By Robb Pritchard, Off-Road correspondent

There is one race that stands alongside the likes of the Le Mans and Daytona 24 Hours, the Baja 1000 and Indy 500 as a stand alone event so highly regarded that it doesn't need to be part of any championship... one where legends win, heroes finish...

By: Robb Pritchard, Cross country rally Correspondent

By: Pep Cifre, Rally Raid Reporter

Silk Way Rally, Russia

By: Pep Cifre, Rally Raid Reporter

By Robb Pritchard and Marina Kosenkova, Off-Road correspondents

By: Pep Cifre, Rally Raid Reporter

By: Pep Cifre, Rally Raid Reporter

Robb Pritchard, Dakar correspondent

Yesterday was the last real stage of the 2011 Dakar, all the huge, hardcore tests that the event is legendary for are over for another year and the thin field of survivors had to drive with a different mentality today. Just a short 180km test stood...

The first week of the Dakar Rally was a triumph for Volkswagen: they have led the rally from day one, and won five of six stages. After taking the first four places during yesterday's stage, the German car manufacturer is firmly in command of the...

The battle raged for 11 days with Nasser Al-Attiyah doggedly hanging on to his vastly more experienced team mate, two time WRC champion Carlos Sainz -- something just had to give -- and in the form of Sainz's front suspension, it did... ironically...

Leg three of the 2011 Dakar rally featured a special stage from San Miguel de Tucuman to San Salvador de Jujuy, for the cars there was a 231 km road section, and a special stage of 500 km, for the bikes and quads a 231 km road section, and a 521 km...

"It's all over now, baby blue" - Bob Dylan It was only a small error that caught out former leader Carlos Sainz yesterday, his Touareg bellied out on just a 2 meter high crest of sand and suddenly his hopes of victory, which had been 'almost...

If anyone was under-whelmed by the tactical antics of the leaders yesterday then the high drama played out on the dunes on Stage 10 today should be enough to compensate... The crews broke camp in the pre-dawn darkness for nearly 700km of...

235km is relatively short on the Dakar scale, but after yesterday's long stage changed the leaderboard of three of the four classes, the loop around the vast dunes of the Atacama is still a real test for the whole field. The organizers shortened...

All change at the top, except Coma's Bike lead 500km of off-roading is utterly incomprehensible for those of us reading this from the comfort of our living room couches or office swivel chairs, yet the leading drivers tackled the changing...