2024 Dakar Rally Preview

The 2024 Dakar Rally, the fifth consecutive edition of the race in Saudi Arabia and Round 1 of the W2RC Series, kicks off this coming Friday and we couldn’t be more excited to bring you our daily coverage of the race here at Enduro.Media! Teams and riders are on site in the town of Alula completing scrutineering ahead of opening ceremonies and the prologue. This year’s route looks exceptionally demanding, and the addition of a new self-supported 48-hour chrono stage in the Empty Quarter should add an interesting challenge for riders to overcome if they want to succeed here.

Today we’re going to look at the overall race and some of the big storylines coming in, and provide a little bit of analysis to answer what are always our three biggest questions here at Enduro.Media - What? So What? Now What?