Hundreds of drivers and thrillseekers will come together to compete at one of the most challenging races in the world, the 2025 Dakar Rally. 

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The event, which spans over two weeks, features multiple classes, including bikes, cars, trucks, and SSVs, with competitors navigating diverse terrain across Saudi Arabia.

The Prologue and Stage 1 begin in Bisha, with the race beginning in earnest on January 4 and ending in Shubaytah on January 17, after the 12th and final stage. 

Here's what to know about the Dakar Rally 2025. 

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What Classes Compete At Dakar Rally?

Currently there are eight classes at the Dakar Rally, led by motorbikes and cars. Here's the full list of classes. 

• Bike
• Car
• Rally 2
• Challenger
• Classic
• SSV
• M1000
• Truck

Dakar Rally 2025 Route

• Prologue: Friday, January 3, 2025 – BISHA > BISHA – 79 km total | 29 km special
• Stage 1: Saturday, January 4, 2025 – BISHA > BISHA – 499 km total | 413 km special
• Stage 2: Sunday, January 5, 2025 & Monday, January 6, 2025 – BISHA > BISHA – 1058 km total | 967 km special (superstage, 48 hours)
• Stage 3: Tuesday, January 7, 2025 – BISHA > AL HENAKIYAH – 847 km total | 495 km special
• Stage 4: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 – AL HENAKIYAH > ALULA – 588 km total | 415 km special
• Stage 5: Thursday, January 9, 2025 – ALULA > HAIL – 492 km total | 428 km special
• Rest Day: Friday, January 10, 2025 – HAIL
• Stage 6: Saturday, January 11, 2025 – HAIL > AL DUWADIMI – 828 km total | 604 km special
• Stage 7: Sunday, January 12, 2025 – AL DUWADIMI > AL DUWADIMI – 742 km total | 478 km special
• Stage 8: Monday, January 13, 2025 – AL DUWADIMI > RIYADH – 737 km total | 487 km special
• Stage 9: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 – RIYADH > HARADH – 589 km total | 357 km special
• Stage 10: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 – HARADH > SHUBAYTAH – 640 km total | 120 km special
• Stage 11: Thursday, January 16, 2025 – SHUBAYTAH > SHUBAYTAH – 507 km total | 275 km special
• Stage 12: Friday, January 17, 2025 – SHUBAYTAH > SHUBAYTAH – 131 km total | 61 km special

Dakar Rally 2025 Entries - Car Class

• Nasser Al-Attiyah (200) - Edouard Boulanger
• Yazeed Al Rajhi (201) - Timo Gottschalk
• Guerlain Chicherit (202) - Alex Winocq
• Lucas Moraes (203) - Armand Monleon
• Seth Quintero (204) - Dennis Zenz
• Guy David Botterill (205) - Dennis Murphy
• Giniel de Villiers (206) - Dirk von Zitzewitz
• Jean-Luc Ceccaldi (207) - Delphine Delfino
• Benediktas Vanagas (208) - Szymon Gospodarczyk
• Mathieu Serradori (209) - Loic Minaudier
• Rokas Baciuska (210) - Oriol Mena
• Henk Lategan (211) - Brett Cummings
• Cristina Gutierrez (212) - Pablo Moreno
• Christian Lavieille (213) - Valentin Sarreaud
• Brian Baragwanath (214) - Leonard Cremer
• Guoyu Zhang (215) - Yicheng Wang
• Juan Cruz Yacopini (216) - Daniel Oliveras
• Denis Krotov (217) - Konstantin Zhiltsov
• Saood Variawa (218) - Francois Cazalet
• Sebastien Loeb (219) - Fabian Lurquin
• Wei Han (220) - Li Ma
• Martin Prokop (221) - Viktor Chytka
• Guillaume de Mevius (222) - Mathieu Baumel
• Laia Sanz (223) - Maurizio Gerini
• Lionel Baud (224) - Lucie Baud
• Carlos Sainz (225) - Lucas Cruz
• Mattias Ekström (226) - Emil Bergkvist
• Nani Roma (227) - Alex Haro
• Mitchell Guthrie (228) - Kellon Walch
• Isidre Esteve (229) - José Maria Villalobos
• Marcelo Tiglia Gastaldi (230) - Adrien Metge
• Toby Price (231) - Sam Sunderland
• Simon Vitse (233) - Max Delfino
• Aliyyah Koloc (234) - Sébastien Delaunay
• Urvo Männama (235) - Risto Lepik
• Eugenio Amos (236) - Paolo Ceci
• Tim Coronel (237) - Tom Coronel
• Gintas Petrus (238) - Darius Leskauskas
• Mark Corbett (239) - Juan Möhr
• Joao Ferreira (240) - Filipe Palmeiro
• Vladas Jurkevičius (241) - Aisvydas Paliukenas
• Daniel Schröder (242) - Henry Carl Köhne
• Pascal Thomasse (243) - Arnold Brucy
• Maik Willems (244) - Marcel Snijders
• Stefan Carmans (245) - Antonius Van Tiel
• Jean Remy Bergounhe (246) - Pascal Larroque
• Po Tian (247) - Hangting Guo
• Marcos Moraes (248) - Maykel Justo
• Karel Trneny (249) - Vaclav Pritzl
• Rong Zi (251) - Hong Yu Pan
• Jerome Cambier (252) - Pascal Delacour
• Hugues Moilet (253) - Olivier Imshoot
• William Battershill (254) - Stuart Gregory
• Ferran Jubany (257) - Marc Sola
• Markus Walcher (258) - Frank Stephan Preuss
• Agostino Rizzardi (260) - Francesca Gasperi
• Francis Balocchi (261) - Anthony Pes
• Dave Klaassen (262) - Tessa Klaassen
• Ludovic Gherardi (263) - Lionel Costes
• Rik Van den Brink (264) - Gydo Heimans
• Ronald Van Loon (265) - Erik Lemmen
• Min Lei Wang (266) - Du Xuanyi
• Andrei Halabarodzka (267) - Alexey Mun
• Jean Pierre Strugo (278) - Christophe Crespo
• Yasir Seaidan (300) - Michael Metge
• Nicolas Cavigliasso (301) - Valentina Pertegarini
• Puck Klaassen (302) - Charan Moore
• Pau Navarro (304) - Lisandro Ezequiel Sisteren Herrera
• Dania Akeel (305) - Stephane Duple
• Saleh Alsaif (306) - Albert Veliamovic
• Mario Franco (307) - Rui Franco
• David Zille (308) - Sebastian Cesana
• Eduard Pons (309) - Jaume Betriu
• Paul Spierings (310) - Jan Pieter Van Der Stelt
• Christophe Cresp (311) - Jean Brucy
• Oscar Ral (312) - Xavier Blanco
• Khalid Aljafla (313) - Andrei Rudnitski
• Xavier Foj (314) - Facundo Jaton
• Annett Quandt (315) - Tannie Seel
• Gert-Jan Van Der Valk (316) - Branco de Lange
• Benjamin Lattard (317) - Patrick Jimbert
• Pedro Gonçalves (318) - Hugo Magalhães
• Goncalo Guerreiro (319) - Cadu Sachs
• Luis Portela Morais (320) - David Megre
• Rui Carneiro (321) - Ola Floene
• Ricardo Porem (322) - Nuno Sousa
• Javier Velez (323) - Gaston Ariel Mattarucco
• Alexandre Giroud (324) - Jeremy Jacomelli
• Corbin Leaverton (325) - Taye Perry
• Khalifa Al-Attiya (326) - Bruno Jacomy
• Antoine Meo (327) - Guilhem Alves
• Piotr Beaupre (328) - Jacek Czachor
• Ahmed F Alkuwari (330) - Augusto Sanz
• Romain Locmane (331) - Benjamin Boulhoud
• Zachary Lumsden (332) - Shannon Moham
• Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari (334) - Nasser Al-Kuwari
• Richard Aczel (335) - Wouter Rosegaar
• Craig Lumsden (337) - Jamie Lambert
• Hamad Nasser Alharbi (338) - Aleksie Kuzmich
• Maria Gameiro (340) - Jose Marques
• Abdullah Alhaydan (341)
• Aurélien Bouchet (342) - Elisa Huguenin
• Hervé Guillaume (343) - Maxime Guillaume
• Benjamin Favre (345) - Thibaud Darroux
• Jedidia Favre (346) - Antoine Lecourbe
• Loic Frebourg (347) - Franck Boulay
• Yannick Grezes (348) - Anthony Drapeau
• Adam Kus (349) - Dmytro Tsyro
• Oscar Maso (350) - Pedro Lopez
• Alexandre Pesci (351) - Stephan Kuhni
• Oscar Olivas (352) - Luis Barrios
• Lex Peters (353) - Mark Salomons
• Joan Piferrer (354) - Joan Rubi
• Gianpaolo Bedin (355) - Alberto Marcon
• Marinus Theodorus Streppel (356) - Lisette Bakker
• Lukasz Zoll (357) - Michal Zoll
• Joan Font (358) - Sergi Brugué
• Xavier De Soultrait (400) - Martin Bonnet
• Sebastian Guayasamin (401) - Fernando Matias Acosta
• Gerard Farres (402) - Toni Vingut
• Jerome De Sadeleer (403) - Diego Ortega Gil
• Francisco Lopez Contardo (404) - Juan Pablo Latrach
• Sara Price (405) - Sean Berriman
• Enrico Gaspari (406) - Fausto Mota
• Jeremias Gonzalez Ferioli (407) - Pedro Gonzalo Rinaldi
• Diego Martinez (408) - Sergio Lafuente
• Fernando Alvarez Castellano (409) - Xavier Panseri
• Claude Fournier (410) - Gregory Revest-Arnoux
• Florent Vayssade (411) - Nicolas Rey
• Alexandre Pinto (412) - Bernardo Oliveira
• Manuel Andujar (413) - Bernardo Graue
• Michele Cinotto (414) - Alberto Bertoldi
• Fidel Castillo (415) - Anuar Osman
• Grzegorz Brochocki (416) - Grzegorz Komar
• Shinsuke Umeda (419) - Paul Durame
• Hunter Miller (420) - Andrew Short
• Eric Croquelois (422) - Bruno Raymond
• Philippe Boutron (423) - Mayeul Barbet
• Joao Dias (424) - Goncalo Reis
• Brock Heger (425) - Max Eddy
• Carlos Vento (426) - Jorge Brandao
• Benoit Lepietre (427) - Rodrigue Relmy-Madinska
• Sander Derikx (428) - Marnix Leeuw
• Ibrahim AlmuHna (429) - Faisal AlSuwayh
• Roger Grouwels (430) - Rudolf Meijer
• Pietro Cinotto (431) - Martino Albertini
• Jose Vidaña (432) - Mario Garrido
• Olivier Pernaut (433) - Benjamin Riviere
• Domingo Roman (434) - Oscar Bravo
• Jose Ignacio Gayoso (435) - Santiago Javier Ramiro
• Souad Mouktadiri (437) - Vincent Ferri
• Stefano Marrini (438) - Matteo Lardori
• Rafa Muñoz Camara (439) - Dani Camara Ordoñez
• Gregory Lefort (442) - George Da Cruz
• Hasan AlSadadi (444) - Marcin Pasek
• Akira Miura (500) - Jean Michel Polato
• Ronald Basso (501) - Jean-Pierre Garcin
• Martin Macik (600) - David Svanda, Frantisek Tomasek
• Ales Loprais (601) - David Kripal, Darek Rodewald
• Mitchel Van Den Brink (602) - Jarno Van De Pol, Moises Torrallardona
• Kees Koolen (603) - Daniel Kozlovsky, Wouter De Graaff
• Martin Soltys (604) - Vlastimil Miksch, Tomas Sikola
• Vaidotas Zala (605) - Max Van Grol, Paulo Fiuza
• Martin Van Den Brink (606) - Bart Van Heun, Rijk Mouw
• Teruhito Sugawara (607) - Hirokazu Somemiya, Yuji Mochizuki
• Claudio Bellina (608) - Danilo Petrucci, Marco ArnoLEtti
• Ben De Groot (609) - Govert Boogaard, Ad Hofmans
• Richard De Groot (610) - Jan Van Der Vaet, Jan Hulsebosch
• Tomas Vratny (611) - Jaromir Martinec, Bartlomiej Boba
• Anja Van Loon (613) - Jan Van De Laar, Ben Van De Laar
• Maurik Van Den Heuvel (615) - Wilko Van Oort, Martijn Van Rooij
• William De Groot (616) - Remon Van Der Steen, Koen Hendriks
• Miklos Kovacs (617) - Laszlo Acs, Peter Czegledi
• Pep Sabate (618) - Nicholas Jones, Pol Tibau Roura
• Paolo Calabria (619) - Loris Calubini, Giuseppe Fortuna
• Alex Aguirre Gaviria (620) - Marc Torres, Francesc Xavier Salisi Vilaplana
• Karel Posledni (621) - Lukas Kvasnica, Filip Skrobánek
• Alexandre Lemeray (623) - Fabien Lecaplain, Marion Andrieu
• Alberto Herrero (625) - Pedro Manuel Penate Munoz, Mario Rodriguez Sastre
• Tariq Al-Rammah (626) - Samir Benbekhti, Serge Lambert
• Michael Baumann (627) - Philipp Beier, Jens Scholer
• Tom Geuens (628) - Anthony Robineau, Sam Koopmann
• Didier Monseu (629) - Charly Gotlib, Edouard Fraipont
• Jean-Francois Cazeres (630) - Jerome Detouillon, Nicolas Falloux
• Zsolt Darazsi (631) - Ipalco Lubomir, Pierre Calmon
• Adria Guillem Gallardo (632) - Florent Drulhon, Philippe Perry
• Giulio Verzeletti (633) - Antonio Cabini, Carlo Cabini
• Jordi Esteve Oro (634) - Jordi Pujol Fornos, Francesc Pardo
• Cesare Rickler Del Mare (636) - Aldo De Lorenzo, Juan Francisco Silva
• Antoine Vitse (637) - Alain Coquelle, Benoit Liefooghe
• Dusan Randysek (638) - Laurent Lalanne, Victor Bouchwalder
• Alberto Alonso Romero (640) - Alejandro Mozuelos Del Rio, Gustavo Ibeas Perez
• Tomas Tomecek (641) - Niccolo Funaioli, Iard Munster
• Sylvain Besnard (643) - Patrick Prots, Sylvain Laliche
• John Cockburn (644) - Louis Lauilhe, Benoit Bonnefoi
• Norbert Szalai (645) - Robert Tagai, Fabien Catherine
• Javier Jacoste Oca (646) - Gerard Ribas, Francisco Ester Fernandez
• Bader Albarrak (647) - David Giovannetti, Paco Fernandez
• Bruno Basire (648) - Sebastien Fargeas, Marc Dardaillon
• Jeremie Gimbre (649) - Richard Gonzalez, Franck Maldonado
• Ahmed Benbekhti (651) - Mickael Fauvel, Bruno Seillet

Dakar Rally 2025 Entries - Bikes Class

• Ross Branch (1)
• Daniel Sanders (4)
• Pablo Quintanilla (7)
• Ricky Brabec (9)
• Skyler Howes (10)
• Jose Ignacio Cornejo Florimo (11)
• Bradley Cox (12)
• Martin Michek (13)
• Sebastian Bühler (14)
• Lorenzo Santolino (15)
• Romain Dumontier (16)
• Mohammed Balooshi (17)
• Jan Brabec (18)
• Rui Gonçalves (19)
• Harith Noah (20)
• Mathieu Doveze (21)
• Michael Docherty (22)
• Jacob Argubright (23)
• Aaron Mare (24)
• Jerome Martiny (25)
• Konrad Dabrowski (26)
• Juan Puga (27)
• Toni Mulec (28)
• Paolo Lucci (29)
• Antonio Maio (30)
• Jeremy Miroir (31)
• David Casteu (32)
• Milan Engel (33)
• Emanuel Gyenes (34)
• Bruno Santos (35)
• Tommaso Montanari (36)
• Eduardo Iglesias Sanchez (38)
• Benjamin Melot (39)
• Martin Prokes (40)
• Adrien Van Beveren (42)
• Julien Dalbec (43)
• Josep Pedro Subirats (44)
• Sunier Sunier (45)
• Kevin Benavides (47)
• David Pabiska (48)
• Juan Santiago Rostan (49)
• James Hillier (50)
• Rachid Al-Lal Lahadil (51)
• Marshall Meplon (52)
• Thomas Kongshoj (53)
• Daniel Nosiglia Jager (54)
• Zhang Min (55)
• Zhao Hongyi (56)
• Fang Xiangliang (57)
• Bartlomiej Tabin (59)
• Arnaud Domet (60)
• Bertrand Domet (61)
• Andrew Joseph Houlihan (62)
• Jeremie Gerber (63)
• Alexandre Vaudan (64)
• Guillaume Chollet (65)
• Neels Theric (66)
• Tosha Schareina (68)
• Francisco Arredondo (69)
• Mishal Alghuneim (70)
• Modestas Siliunas (71)
• Philippe Gendron (72)
• Edgar Canet (73)
• Michael Jacobi (74)
• Deng Liansong (75)
• Stéphane Darques (76)
• Luciano Benavides (77)
• Lorenzo Maestrami (78)
• Maxime Pouponnot (79)
• Abdulhalim Almogheera (80)
• Cesare Zacchetti (81)
• Andrea Winkler (82)
• Fabien Domas (83)
• Vasileios Boudros (84)
• Manuel Lucchese (85)
• Charlie Herbst (86)
• Ehab Al Hakeem (87)
• Arunas Gelazninkas (88)
• Francisco Alvarez Niño (89)
• Alvaro Iris Coppola Gutierrez (90)
• Mike Wiedemann (91)
• Jiri Broz (92)
• Tiziano Interno (93)
• Dusan Drdaj (94)
• Xavier Flick (95)
• Tobias Ebster (96)
• Jaromir Romancik (97)
• Mason Klein (98)
• Javi Vega (99)
• Sandra Gomez Cantero (100)
• Iader Giraldi (101)
• Ignacio Sanchis (102)
• Gediminas Satkus (103)
• Simon Marcic (104)
• Jean-Philippe Révolte (105)
• Axel Mustad (106)
• Eid Rafic (107)
• Marc Calmet Calveras (108)
• Oscar Hernandez Panos (109)
• Juanjo Martinez Garcia (110)
• Justin Gerlach (111)
• Willem Avenant (112)
• Gad Nachmani (113)
• Dwain Barnard (114)
• Mathieu Feuvrier (115)
• Jordan Strachan (116)
• Ottavio Missoni (117)
• Mykolas Paulavicius (119)
• Jim Moisa (120)
• Alexandre Yon (121)
• Thomas Georgin (122)
• Fabian Von Thuengen (123)
• Badr Alhamdan (124)
• Damien Bataller (125)
• Toby Hederics (126)
• Adam Peschel (127)
• Max Bianucci (128)
• Jatin Jain (129)
• Nerimantas Jucius (130)
• Ahmed Aljaber (131)
• Carlos Alfonso Malo Peña (132)
• Gines Belzunces Viudez (133)
• Clément Artaud (134)
• Benjamin Bourdariat (135)
• Ferran Zaragoza Rosa (136)
• Yann Di Mauro (137)
• Ivan Merichal Resina (138)
• Salman Mohamed Humood Farhan (139)
• Dennis Mildenberger (140)
• Murun Purevdorj (141)
• Stefan Svitko (142)
• Robbie Wallace (143)
• Ashish Raorane (144)
• Tomas De Gavardo (148)

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