The Dakar 2025 is already prepared for a new edition, the 47th since it started as a test in Africa that ended, precisely, in Dakar. Today, 46 years after the edition that began on December 26, 1978 in Paris, little remains of that adventure. Everything is more professional, more advanced, faster, safer. However, it is still a spectacle for raid enthusiasts.
The Dakar 2025 will again be held exclusively in Saudi Arabia, starting in Bisha with the prologue stage on January 3, and finishing in Shubaytah on January 17. In between a total of 12 stages, a day of rest and 7,700 kilometers.
Of those 12 stages there are two very special ones: the second one has 951 kilometers of special and is called Chrono 48 hours. It is celebrated between January 5 and 6, which will cover 997 kilometers (951 special) and in which the pilots will have to stop to sleep in improvised bivouacs in the middle of the desert and the most typical marathon stage. In reality there are two marathon stages, stages four and five, but the parc ferme prevents you from working on the mechanics as you do after finishing a normal stage.
From there we enter the second part of the rally, we cannot say that it is easier but without these extra efforts that the drivers will face as soon as the competition starts. Navigation will be important, especially when you reach the dunes of the Rub’ al Khali desert.
This edition will also be special for motorcycles because 45% of the timed route will not be shared with cars and trucks, a measure that seeks to avoid the always compromising overtaking situations. And we must not forget that motorcycles are the ones that open the way in the competition, something that favors the rest of the vehicles in the navigation stages, in many cases when they can follow their tracks, traveling faster and overtaking the motorcycle riders. .
Stages of Dakar 2025
Prologue – Friday, January 3
Departure: Bisha – Arrival: Bisha – Link: 50 km – Special: 29 km – Total: 79 km
Stage 1- Saturday, January 4
Departure: Bisha – Arrival: Bisha – Link: 88 km – Special: 412 km – Total: 500 km
Stage 2 (48h) Sunday 5th and Monday 6th January
Departure: Bisha – Arrival: Bisha – Link: 46 km – Special: 951 km – Total: 997 km
Stage 3 – Tuesday, January 7
Departure: Bisha – Arrival: Al Henakiyah – Link: 349 km – Special: 496 km – Total: 845 km
Stage 4 (Marathon 1) – Wednesday, January 8
Departure: Al Henakiyah – Arrival: Alula – Link: 173 km – Special: 415 km – Total: 588 km
Stage 5 (Marathon 2) – Thursday, January 9
Departure: Alula- Arrival: Salve – Link: 63 km – Special: 428 km – Total: 491 km
Rest – Friday, January 10
Location: Salve
Stage 6 – Saturday, January 11
Departure: Salve – Arrival: Al Duwadimi – Link: 223 km – Special: 606 km – Total: 829 km
Stage 7 – Sunday, January 12
Departure: Al Duwadimi – Arrival: Al Duwadimi – Link: 264 km – Special: 460 km – Total:
724 km
Stage 8 – Monday, January 13
Departure: Al Duwadimi – Arrival: Riadh – Link: 246 km – Special: 484 km – Total: 730 km
Stage 9 – Tuesday, January 14
Departure: Riadh – Arrival: Riadh – Link: 232 km – Special: 357 km – Total: 589 km
Stage 10 – Wednesday, January 15
Departure: Riadh – Arrival: Shubaytah – Link: 519 km – Special: 119 km – Total: 638 km
Stage 11 – Thursday, January 16
Departure: Shubaytah – Arrival: Shubaytah – Link: 226 km – Special: 314 km – Total: 540
km
Stage 12 – Friday, January 17
Departure: Shubaytah – Arrival: Shubaytah – Link: 71 km – Special: 134 km – Total: 205 km
Spanish drivers in the Dakar 2025
This year the Dakar has the participation of 15 motorcycle pilots out of the 136 participating in total. We find a varied representation with some riders who are going to try to fight for the leading positions (Santolino, Schareina…), others who are going to fight for their categories with customer racing motorcycles, some who fulfill old dreams and even some young talents like Edgar Canet who is going to participate at 19 years old.
All of them will seek to reach the finishing podium and be able to take a photo in Shubaytah on January 17, although the difficulties they will encounter along the way will test them.
In any case, all of us who make Soymotero.net possible wish you the best of luck in this adventure.
#15 – Lorenzo Santolino (Sherco)
#38 – Eduardo Iglesias (KTM 450 Rally Replica)
#44 – Josep Pedro (Rieju 450 Rally Replica)
#51 – Rachid Al-Lal Lahadil (Husqevarna 450 Rally Replica)
#68 – Tosha Schareina (Honda CRF 450 RALLY)
#73 – Edgar Canet (KTM 450 Rally Replica)
#99 – Javi Vega (Kove 450 RALLY EX)
#100 – Sandra Gómez (Fantic XEF 450 RALLY FACTORY)
#102 – Ignacio Sanchís (KTM 450 Rally Replica)
#108 – Marc Calmet (Rieju 450 Rally Replica)
#109 – Óscar Hernández (KTM 450 Rally)
#110 – Juanjo Martínez (KTM 450 Rally)
#133 – Ginés Belzunces (KTM 450 Rally Replica)
#136 – Ferrán Zaragoza (KTM 450 Rally Replica)
#138 – Iván Merichal (KTM 450 Rally Replica)
