The 2012 Dakar Rally is over. Cyril Despres has won his fourth championship. And racing fans will have to wait another 350 days for the world’s most grueling rally to return. The 2012 Dakar Rally saw a fantastic race between 2011 Dakar Rally champion Marc Coma and his title rival Cyril Despres. The evenly matched [...]
Cyril Despres was able to hold on to the lead during the final stage of the 2012 Dakar to claim his fourth victory in seven years. KTM’s winning streak is even more impressive. KTM has one the last 11 Dakar Rallies. Marc Coma suffered mechanical problems during the penultimate stage and gave Despres a big [...]
Cyril Despres lost a lot of ground yesterday as his KTM got stuck in a river mud. But the three-time champ was able to catch and pass Marc Coma today with his third stage win of the 2012 Dakar rally. Despres now leads the rally by 2’28″ over the defending champion. “It’s feeling good,” Despres [...]
Marc Coma has slowly been chipping away at Cyril Despres’ lead and today during the 8th stage he finally managed to put himself back on top. Despres lost a lot of time in a muddy trap during today’s stage and now trails the defending champion by 1 minute and 26 seconds. Coma was able to [...]
Marc Coma is slowly closing the gap. The defending champion made a navigational error during the early stages of the 2012 Dakar rally that gave Cyril Despres a big lead in the front, but Coma is slowly reeling in his KTM rival. Coma clawed back more than two minutes from Despres during the 7th stage [...]
The first day of the 2012 Dakar Rally was a tragic one. Jorge Martinez Boero, who was racing in the motorcycle class of the Dakar, died after a crash just a few miles from the finish of the first stage. Organizers of the Dakar write on the website: “Argentinean rider Jorge Boero (motorcycle no. 175) [...]
In less than a week the most grueling motorcycle race in the world will begin in South America. The Dakar Rally will take some of the best adventure riders in the world through deserts, over mountains, and across rivers as they compete for the 2012 Dakar title. Here are some stats and figures about the [...]
For the last decade, the Dakar Rally has been a showcase for KTM. Starting with Fabrizio Meoni’s victory in 2001, KTM has been the machine to beat at the Dakar rally. But Yamaha is hoping to change that this year with Helder Rodrigues and the YZ450F Rally Motorcycle. Rodrigues was a fierce competitor in 2011 [...]
Marc Coma will enter the 2012 Dakar Rally as the man to beat. Coma is a three-time Dakar Rally and is currently the reining champion. Coma and the MRW Red Bull AMV Team are ready to fight for another victory in 2012. The 2012 Dakar Rally will start on January 1st. Coma and the rest [...]
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