Dakar is one of my dreams (just be able to do the course and watch the scenery, without all the rush of the race)... Bravo to the french that came up with the idea
Amazing video ❤️ Dakar is definitely one of the biggest races on earth along with the Monaco Grand Prix, 24 Hours of Le Mans, Indy 500, and Rallye Monte-Carlo 🔥🔥🔥
I think Dakar should return to South America. As the video said, there were thousands of passionate fans that loved it. No one in Saudi Arabia gives a hoot
There was an arcade racing game series in the mid to late 2000s called motorstorm which was inspired by rally raid events like dakar, it was kind of like rally raid meets burning man kind of vibe. I had no idea the transport of the vehicles in that game via ship was an actual part of the real life event.
But why can't they go back to Dakar, Senegal? I understand the Mauritania terrorist problem that arose in 2007-08, but a lot of time has passed, and they can go to Senegal through Mali.. The Budapest-Bamako rally goes to Sierra Leone usually, following that route the Dakar could go to Bamako, then Dakar, Senegal. What are the reasons behind not going to Senegal? (Jordi Viladoms said in 2019: "I am quite confident that the Dakar rally won't return to Dakar in Senegal, but a return to Africa may still be possible in the future")
it really depends on the stage, but anywhere from 1 hour to 5-7 hours or more, especially if you get lost. back in the old days (late 80s and 90s) some people wouldnt show up to camp until dark because they got lost or lost time due to mechanical problems which could take several hours to fix especially when you had to wait for the support trucks to come up.
Three in a row and still no clarification on the actual race or timing/scoring…… do better. Same as the previous year and still no mention of scoring and times. Still unclear whether overall is actually overall or who’s competing against who. As I mentioned the best part of a race like the TDF is the races within the race, you’d be well served to make it known about those if any, and highlight them.
everyone is racing against the time, (overall and catagory), you have the overall winner for that particular stage that day. all of those times including any penalty times are added up at the end and the person with the lowest time (no matter the catagory) wins, then you also have the overall winner in each catagory with the lowest time. you can say that in Dakar there is a race within a race, the overall race and the race against others in their own catagory (bike, quad, cars/buggies, trucks)
"and finish welding the subframes" like they pull up in their street car, slap on a couple of mods, and take off across a desert. Huh? They do what? Oh.
Thing is, even after researching, I don't understand why exactly Dakar can't return to Dakar (Senegal), or Africa. I understand that there were safety problems in Mauritania in 2007-2008, hence why they went to South Africa. But a lot of time has passed since, and this to me seemed like a reason to not race in Mauritania, rather than in Africa as a whole. As I see it, you could enter Senegal in the deserts through Mali aswell, not just through Mauritania, so why doesn't ever Dakar revisit Dakar? I can understand that now there are wars in Africa, and even before there were serious issues like the Sudan war, but surely there have been years in the past decade when it was at least as safe to do a race in Africa as it was in the worst years of three decades before 2008? I mean.. other rallies still go to Africa like the Budapest-Bamaco, although that one never stops in Bamako either, I don't really understand why they keep changing the final destination in almost every rally. Also, Saudi Arabia is not 100% safe either, but I guess this is about as close to Africa as it gets. But the takes I've read made me a bit disappointed: " for political and economic reasons, it looks unlikely that the Dakar will return to Africa" -from the Red Bull Dakar page 2017 The economic reason being that Saudi Arabia and South America races pay better? Jordi Viladoms said in 2019: "I am quite confident that the Dakar rally won't return to Dakar in Senegal, but a return to Africa may still be possible in the future" Why not Senegal? Never? It's kind of sad to me, I was too young to understand the racing before they left Africa, but there, it really seemed like you had to get from one point to the other in any way as it was difficult enough to just get there already, now waypoints are too important
Sad to see the the once great Paris to Dakar rally has gone woke...on the redbull channel the 2024 route video was mostly about a "carbon neutral" dakar rally by 2030. Lmfao
