How Defender Won Every Stage on Its Dakar Rally Debut

Defender Rally makes history with debut Dakar victory - SME Tech Guru

Defender Rally has won the 2026 Dakar Rally, the toughest off-road challenge in the world, in its debut year, as drivers Rokas Baciuška and Oriol Vidal win the Stock class in the Defender Dakar D7X-R. After two weeks of racing over relentlessly tough terrain, fellow teammates Sara Price and Sean Berriman finished in second place, whilst ‘Mr Dakar’ Stéphane Peterhansel and co-driver Mika Metge finished in fourth position in the Dakar Rally Stock …

How Defender won every stage on its Dakar Rally debut

Defender turned up to the world’s toughest desert race and wrote its name into the history books

How Defender did on its first Dakar

There was a familiar face on the top step of this year’s Dakar Rally, but a new badge stitched onto his overalls. Nasser Al-Attiyah conquered the world’s... Read more The post How Defender did on its first Dakar appeared first on DirtFish.