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Dakar 2023: Video - 2023 Highlights
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Dakar 2023: Final stage - Basson / Pienaar claim rookie victory and Top 10 finish on Dakar Debut
SA’s Eben Basson and Leander Pienaar complete tough Dakar debut National Class T1 champions crowned Lightweight Prototype rookie winners in Dammam The G Rally Team crew ended the two-week long race in 7th position on the overall rankings The 2023 Dakar...
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Dakar 2023: Final stage - Red-Lined tames the Dakar Rally
Amateur class 1-2, all four Red-Lined cars finish Dakar ‘23 South African rally raid race car manufacturer Red-Lined Motorsport enjoyed an exceptional outing at the 2023 Dakar Rally. Not only did all four of its gentlemen crews cross the finish line of...
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Dakar 2023: Final stage - Hino Team Sugawara finished 10th overall in the Trucks
Dakar Rally 2023 concludes all 15 days of competition The Dakar Rally 2023 concluded on January 15th with the final SS (competition segment) of 138 km between Hofuf and Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The 15-day event came to a close with the finish line at the...
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Dakar 2023: Final stage - Janus van Kasteren jr. wins Dakar 2023!
Boss Machinery Team De Rooy Iveco started the Dakar rally with high ambitions. The team went into battle with two Iveco Powerstar rally trucks. Unfortunately, Vick Versteijnen, Teun van Dal and André van der Sande with start number 504, had to give up...
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Dakar 2023: Pascal de Baar - "We can compete in the top 3"
Prior to the 2023 Dakar Rally, Gert Huzink and Pascal de Baar wanted to compete for the podium. Due to various technical problems, they did not succeed. However, both Huzink (stage 3) and De Baar (stage 10) did book a day's victory. De Baar recorded a...
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Dakar 2023: Final stage - The return of Hélder Rodrigues now on four wheels
After eleven participations in Dakar, between 2006 and 2017, where he had a remarkable career on two wheels, Hélder Rodrigues returned to the competition to make his debut in cars competing in Class T3 for light prototypes. A project for which a bright...
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Dakar 2023: Final stage - Santolino finishes 9th overall!
STAGE 14: Al-Hofuf - Dammam On the program for the 14th and final stage of this 2023 Dakar, was a 417 km course from Al-Hofuf to Dammam, including 136 km of special. After more than 8,000 km in the Saudi desert, our Sherco Factory rider Laurenzo...
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Dakar 2023: Final report - SSV. The boss baby
In the SSVs, the youngest Dakar entrant ever benefited from a massive plot twist in the last stage, as the leader, Rokas Baciuška, surrendered the top spot to the 18-year-old Pole Eryk Goczał, who will share the podium with his father, Marek, in third...
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Dakar 2023: Final report - Lightweight prototypes, Jones scores a double whammy
Gerard de Rooy in 2016. When "Chaleco" López, the defending champion of the T3 category, got the ball rolling for the 45th Dakar on the Sea Camp, everyone expected a rematch between the Chilean and Seth Quintero, the driver who had won virtually every...
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Dakar 2023: Final report - Quads, Giroud restores French honour
a few weeks after the football World Cup final between France and Argentina, the duel between the last two winners of the Dakar doubled as a rematch! But once again, Messi's compatriot did not reach the goal. First, mechanical troubles in stage 3 sent...
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Dakar 2023: Final report - Trucks, Van Kasteren blasts into the history books
van Kasteren ended six years of undisputed Russian hegemony to add his name in the annals and bring Iveco's total to three Dakar victories. As usual in the most prestigious rally raid on Earth, it's consistency wot won it. Martin Macík did his best,...
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Dakar 2023: Final report - Motos, A fistful of seconds
knocking Toby Price from the top of the general standings to prevail by 43 seconds, the narrowest winning margin ever in the Dakar. Never before had a biker lost the lead of the Dakar in the last special. And never before had the winner and the...
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Dakar 2023: Final report - Cars, Quiet aplomb carries the day for Al-Attiyah
The 45th edition of the Dakar has come to an end in Dammam after 14 stages that saw dramatic turnarounds in every category. Nasser Al Attiyah's victorious campaign did not come as a surprise, but his first successful title defence earned him the fifth...
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Dakar 2023: Video - Final stage
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Dakar 2023: Final stage - "Not done yet with Dakar, we certainly want more"
and Mitchel van den Brink return to Harskamp with the trophy and medals for third and fourth place respectively in the 2023 Dakar Rally. “We are very pleased, but we certainly want more.” Today Martin van den Brink finished fifth. Mitchel was again...
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Dakar 2023: Final stage: Desert Miracle, Motorsport fairy tale - Moraes and Gottschalk celebrate podium finish
Reliability stings: Lucas Moraes and Timo Gottschalk finish surprisingly outstanding "Dakar" third Brazilian-Brandenburg duo the revelation of the 45th edition of the desert classic thanks to zero-fault job Expectations exceeded on all levels:...
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Dakar 2023: Final stage - Kevin Benavides and KTM win the 2023 Dakar Rally
Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Kevin Benavides has won the 2023 Dakar Rally! At the end of what has been a hugely successful race for the team, Benavides led home a KTM one-two with Toby Price securing second place, just 44 seconds behind his teammate....
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Dakar 2023: Final stage - Skyler Howes claims 2023 Dakar Rally podium
Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Skyler Howes has battled through 14 stages of intense racing to finish the 2023 Dakar Rally in an excellent third place. In what has been a career-best ride for the American, Skyler led the race for a total of six stages and...
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Dakar 2023 - Final stage - Three Honda riders in the top 10 positions
Today it was time to say goodbye to the 2023 edition of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, after the 14th stage held between Al-Hofuf and Dammam. This completed the 8.549 kilometers of the round one from the World Rally Raid Championship, with the most...