Dacia Sandriders will run an innovative new driver safety device on the team's debut at the Dakar Rally. The manufacturer will use a 'seat attenuator' to absorb impacts over the rough terrain as ...

For the 2025 edition, there's a surprise name aiming for glory: Dacia. The small Romanian manufacturer is taking on the giants and aiming to make history when the Dakar Rally starts on 3 January.

The Dacia team has been here for a few weeks, and the support trucks are corralled in a courtyard like wagons in a Western. There’s little in the way of distraction, and progress has been good.

The third Dacia team driver will be Cristina Gutierrez Herrero and Pablo Moreno Huete, who won the UTV Challenger Class in a Taurus T3 Max. Back to the Sandrider.

The Dacia Sandriders team will then embark on its assault on the Dakar next year, as well competing in a full 2025 W2RC campaign. Dacia has committed to a two-year world championship program ...

Dacia, alongside the best team and drivers in the game, are serious contenders for the rally.” READ MORE This is the 600bhp Prodrive Hunter Hypercar: the road-legal BRX ...

Dacia has just convinced nine-time World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb to drive for them in the Dakar Rally in 2025 with co-driver Cristina ... "Dacia, alongside the best team and drivers in ...

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