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FINKE 2022 – PRICE FASTEST TO FINKE WITH NEW RECORD ON DAY 1

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Dakar Stage 9: Price & Al-Attiyah Stay On Top

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‘King of the West’ Battle Primed to Reignite in Kal

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The gruelling route of the 2019 Dakar Rally showed its teeth on stage three as it removed race leaders from the contest. A heady mix of dunes, mountain plateaus and roadbook confusion was too much to take for some of rally-raids biggest names as leaderboards across all categories suffered a major shakeup. In the car …

After Monday’s quick taste of the dunes, things got serious on stage two of the 2019 Dakar Rally with a race route of 350 kilometres laid out for the competitors. The challenging route created drama all the way as former winners were caught out by the shifting sands and newcomers pounced to take advantage of …

The Holden Ute of Steve Riley and Trev Hanks are currently living their dream of racing at Dakar in their Aussie built Holden Ute. Steve Riley a former off road motorcycle racer and three times auto winner of the Australian safari rally along with co/driver and friend Trev Hanks are competing in 2019 Dakar Rally. …

The glorious day that all desert racers have been waiting for finally arrived as the 2019 Dakar Rally got started today. All the months of preparation were put into practice on the dunes around Pisco as stage one as the world’s toughest rally got underway. The opening special stage took place after a 247-kilometre liaison …

Edition 50 of Dirtcomp Magazine has now been mailed to our subscribers. After much deliberation we have decided that Edition 50 will be the final print magazine of Dirtcomp and we will evolve to a FREE digital web based format during 2019. As advised on delivery of Edition 50, if you have any magazines remaining …

Nine-time World Rally Champion and recent Rally Catalunya winner Sébastien Loeb will sensationally return to the Dakar Rally next year as a privateer, backed by Red Bull. The 44-year-old Frenchman, who won his 79th WRC rally in Spain last weekend, will drive a Peugeot 3008DKR navigated by Daniel Elena. This is similar to the car …

The battle for the 2018 DEWALT SXS Australian Championship went right down to the wire at the Broadford State Motorcycle Sports Complexon the weekend. The first five rounds had produced five different winners and with the championship up for grabs, the gloves were off at the season’s grand finale. The heats were a slippery affair, with the heavens opening …

The battle for the the ‘King of the West’ Title is primed to reignite at the Black Diamond Kalgoorlie Desert Race on October 26-28, 2018 as offroaders converge on the famous gold mining town for Round 6 of the Carnarvon Motel Western Australia Off Road Championship. 2017 saw the inaugural KDR, coming off the back of …

The growth of the Tatts Finke Desert Race is showing no signs of slowing down, with organisers confirming the 2018 event was the biggest to date. Expectations are the 2019 event, to be held in Alice Springs on 7-10 June, will be bigger again. The event has been confirmed as round two of the BFGoodrich …

The third and final round of the 2018 Stadium Short Course Championship which was held at the Benaraby Mx Track has been run & won with plenty of action during the Day/ night event. There were 6 day heats which consisted of 5 laps each heat and then the final heat under lights was an 8 …

The St George 399 has been confirmed as the opening round of the 2019 BFGoodrich CAMS Australian Off Road Championship (AORC) with a new date set to give competitors more preparation time for the Finke Desert Race. The St George 399 will kick off the AORC on the 5-7 April* in the tiny rural town …

The flowing natural terrain course at Queensland Moto Park hosted the fourth round of the 2018 DEWALT SXS Australian Championshiptoday. After 5 heats, the semi’s and final it was the reigning SXS Champion, Ewan McClue in the #657 Emac Electrical CanAm Maverick who returned to the top step of the outright and SXS Turbo Class …