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The 2024 Dakar Rally was a rally raid event held in Saudi Arabia. It was the 46th edition of the Dakar Rally, organized by Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), and the 5th time Saudi Arabia has hosted the event. The event took place between 5 and 19 January 2024.
He would be taking part in the 2024 Dakar Rally and the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship, alongside his navigator/co-driver of multiple past campaigns, Dennis Zenz. [6] After experiencing troubles at the Dakar, the American would impress in Abu Dhabi, winning stage 3 and coming third overall, scoring his first podium in the top class.
At the 2024 Dakar Rally, Carlos Sainz took the RS Q e-tron's first Dakar win which was helped by the new technical director, Dr. Pascali Leonardo. Leonardo went on to describe the win as, the “best professional experience of my life." [15] [16]
Alongside his WRC successes, he has won the Dakar Rally (2010, 2018, 2020, 2024), the Race of Champions (1997) and the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (1990). His co-drivers were Antonio Boto, Luis Moya , Marc Martí , and Lucas Cruz .
He took a historic victory for India in the Rally 2 category of Motorcycles at the 46th Dakar Rally on 19 January 2024 and finished in the overall top-11, to become the fastest from India at Dakar. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Earlier, he bagged two stage wins in his class, the Rally 2.
The twin-turbo 3.0-liter flat-six engine is pulled from the 911 GTS and produces 473 horsepower, which was good enough to send the Dakar screaming to 60 mph in just 2.9 seconds during our testing.
This is a list of records in the Dakar Rally since 1979. [1] [2] [3] [4]Records are correct as of the 2025 Dakar Rally.Updates are likely to happen during a rally and are subject to change due to the nature of time penalties occurring throughout the rally.
In 2019, which was the first Dakar Rally to be held in just one country (Peru), Toyota won for the first time with Nasser Al-Attiyah (in his third victory with three different manufacturers). The bike category saw the KTM works team rider, Australian Toby Price, take his first Dakar victory, winning his second title in 2019.