I · The River
Forty-seven editions across three deserts
Every class the rally has crowned, flowing left to right in the colours of the winning marque — cars and bikes from Paris in 1979, trucks from 1980, eight classes in Saudi Arabia today. The river thickens as the classes multiply and runs dry in 2008, the year the rally was cancelled. Hover a year to read it; click to step into that edition. Pick a class above.
Explore the data ↓II · The Stage
Edition, route, podium, marque
III · The Routes
Every route, on its own map
Sources, coverage & calculations
IV · The Reading Edition
Every edition, on the page
Every Dakar of every year as plain reading matter, with its route, its era and the first three of every class. This is what you get with scripts off, in print, or in a preview that blocks interactive pages.
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IV · The Reading Edition
Every edition, on the page
Every Dakar of every year as plain reading matter, with its route, its era and the first three of every class. This is what you get with scripts off, in print, or in a preview that blocks interactive pages.
The reading edition is its own page — every table of the archive as plain HTML, with no scripts needed: open the reading edition →
Also: the static pages for every edition, driver and rider, marque and class.