Long seen as the holy grail of motorsport, the Dakar rally no longer has the aura it once had. If the “Paris-Dakar”, now “Dakar rally”, remains associated with extreme adventure and human and mechanical exploits in the desert, its 48th edition, which opens this Saturday January 3 in Saudi Arabia, now seems to take place in relative indifference. Created in 1978 by Thierry Sabine, the race today struggles to generate the enthusiasm of yesteryear.
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