Dakar drops ‘marathon’ stage rule after heavy rain

Following Saturday’s Prologue and the first full stage of the rally raid in Ha’il on Sunday, the competitors were scheduled to face two days of Marathon during which they would not have been able to receive outside assistance from their teams.
But heavy downpour that began on Saturday afternoon in Ha’il and throughout the northern region of the country has flooded the Al Artawiyah bivouac …Keep reading