Dakar 2022

During the first week of the 2022 Dakar Rally, Skyler Howes was looking good. He was the top-placing American, 15 minutes out of the lead. Then, on stage 5, the lights went out. He suffered a concussion from a fall near the end of the…
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Sam Sunderland has won the 2022 Dakar Rally for GasGas. It was one of the closest finishes in years, with Honda's Pablo Quintanilla winning the 12th and final stage to close with a few minutes of taking the overall. In the end, Sunderland's…
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Today’s special stage was brutal. Both navigation and terrain were among the most challenging of the entire rally. Some 346 kilometers of sand and dunes, on a total stage of just over 500 kilometers, helped define how the podium is likely…
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Toby Price posted the best time in stage 10, which was considered a very technical day of riding. The 375-kilometer timed special was mostly made up of fast sandy tracks, with a couple of dirt sections and dunes adding to the mix. Although…
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Relatively short at a total distance of under 500 kilometers, and with a timed special of 287 kilometers, stage nine of the Dakar was made up of a fast, looped route close to Wadi Ad Dawasir. Once again, the riders to start up front faced a…
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Sam Sunderland bounced back into the lead by winning stage 8 today. As the rally comes into the final stretch, the "yoyo syndrome" is more evident than ever. Sunderland started 28th this morning and was able to set a fast pace--perhaps a…
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Today’s stage was cut short due to poor conditions. Race organizers called a halt to the special stage with 101 kilometers completed, a quarter of the scheduled total. Today’s stage was held over brutal course conditions, given that the…
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Stage 5 was a day of mixed fortunes, particularly for the American riders. Skyler Howes suffered a crash towards the end of the 346-kilometer special. Although able to finish as the ninth fastest rider, he was then taken to hospital for…
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Today’s third stage played out over an unscheduled loop in Al-Qaisumah on an altered route, shortened to a 255-kilometer special and a 380-kilometer link section. There were 214 kilometers of liaison to be tackled on this chilly morning,…
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The second official stage of the 2022 Dakar rally finished with very different results, but a GasGas still sits atop the standings. Downpours over the last few days in the northern part of Saudi Arabia caused some flooding, such as the…
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It seemed that almost everyone got lost toward the end of stage 1B, the second actual day of riding in the 2022 Dakar Rally. Factory GasGas rider Daniel Sanders might be the exception. The reward for his first place finish in the Prologue…
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The 2022 Dakar Rally is underway after the opening leg of a special stage which is set to finish tomorrow. Today saw a brief 19-kilometre prologue with a very long transfer, for the most part over sand, but also featuring a small amount of…
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The 2022 Dakar Rally starts tomorrow. It will be televised nightly on Peacock as follows: Date Coverage Time (ET) Sun., Jan. 2 Stage 1 – Jeddah to Ha’il 8 p.m. Mon., Jan. 3 Stage 2 – Ha’il to Al Artawiyah 8 p.m. Tues., Jan. 4 Stage 3…
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We have a 2022 Honda CRF450RX that we've been saving for wet weather. As every Southern Californian knows, when the desert is wet it's a wonderful place to take a big, powerful motorcycle. Basically, they don't come any bigger and more…
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