Nightly protection of the 12-stage 2025 Dakar Rally begins tomorrow, Friday, Jan. 3, at 8pm ET on Peacock and NBC Sports activities digital platforms and continues by Friday, Jan. 17.
NBC Sports activities will produce a one-hour present every day of the occasion for the NBC Sports activities Channel on Peacock, with every installment airing at 8pm ET after which accessible on-demand on Peacock after it streams. The one-hour program will likely be complemented with a devoted Dakar Rally web page on Peacock, that includes full-event replays. Highlights from all courses in addition to racer interviews may even be accessible on Peacock and NBC Sports activities digital platforms all through the race.
Greater than 700 rivals, from over 70 nationalities, throughout 5 classes of automobiles, will race throughout 3,000+ miles of various terrain, together with desert, canyons, dunes and mountains all through Saudi Arabia. Over 400 automobiles will try the lengthy journey, amongst them motorbikes, vehicles, vans, quads, and extra. It will mark the sixth time that Saudi Arabia has hosted the race, with 2025 marking the forty seventh version of the rally; the inaugural competitors in 1979 started in Paris, France, and completed in Dakar, Senegal.
An elite group of U.S. racers are anticipated to compete this 12 months, headlined by two-time defending Dakar Rally bike champion Ricky Brabec and Seth Quintero, who holds the document for highest variety of stage wins in a single Dakar (12, 2022) and will likely be competing within the premier automobile class. Moreover, Sara Value appears to be like to construct on her 2024 rookie 12 months fourth-place end within the SSV class.
Different notable riders embody defending vehicles champion Carlos Sainz, looking for his fifth total Dakar Rally title, five-time vehicles champion Nasser Al-Attiyah, and nine-time World Rally Championship winner Sebastien Loeb. Mitch Guthrie Jr., after a runner-up efficiency within the Challenger class in 2024, will make his debut in elite automobile race, whereas Cristina Gutierrez, Dakar’s second-ever feminine winner and reigning Challenger winner, makes her return to the elite automobile race as nicely.
