Yazeed al-Rajhi made history on Friday by becoming the first driver from host nation Saudi Arabia to win the Dakar Rally.

For a few years now, New Atlas has picked some of its favorite pictures from the grueling, multi-thousand-mile desert race ...

Rajhi becomes the first driver to win on home soil since Pierre Lartigue won the Paris to Dakar to Paris rally in 1994.

Perseverance paid off for Saudi billionaire Al-Rajhi, who won the Dakar Rally on his 11th attempt. With several favourites like Carlos Sainz and Sebastien Loeb exiting in the first week itself ...

Al Rajhi won as a privateer Toyota entry in a Dakar that Toyotas dominated after Carlos Sainz Sr.'s Audi ... was forced to exit the rally during stage three following a crash in stage two.

The Dakar Rally has been held in several countries since its inaugural edition in 1979, but no driver had managed to lift the ...