Dakar 2026 in Saudi Arabia: fourteen stages from Yanbu to Yanbu
The rally ran from 3 to 17 January through AlUla, Hail, Riyadh, Wadi ad-Dawasir and Bisha, avoiding the Empty Quarter and heading west.
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