Dakar announces Portugal and Morocco as 2027 host destinations

The news has been speculated for some time, but it is now official.

The 2027 Dakar Rally has been relocated to Portugal and Morocco, with the war in West Asia preventing Saudi Arabia from hosting the event as originally planned. Having been originally scheduled to begin on New Year’s Day, the 49th edition of Dakar will now run from 7-23 January…

Knoxville has been announced as the host city for the World Rally Championship’s long awaited return to the United States next year. Earlier this month the WRC released its expanded 15-round 2027 calendar, which includes a trip to America for the first time since Olympus Rally…

Double world rally champion Carlos Sainz will contest a rally driving a Ford Puma Rally1 World Rally Championship car in Spain this weekend. The 1990 and 1992 world rally champion has confirmed that he will jump behind the wheel of the latest generation WRC car at Rally de…

Osian Pryce clinched the 2026 British Rally Championship title after pipping Max McRae by 1.2s in a tense final stage showdown at the Cambrian Rally season finale. The Welsh gravel rally, held in torrential rain, served up a winner takes all three-way title fight between Welsh…

The 2027 Dakar Rally will no longer take place in Saudi Arabia as originally planned, with organisers Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) and Saudi Motorsport Company (SMC) confirming that the event will be relocated to a different region. In a joint statement issued on Sunday, ASO…