Who is the biggest winner in the history of Dakar Rally?

Created Date: 2023-02-17 08:23:52

First Dakar champion
In 1979, the champion of the first Dakar Rally motorcycle group was won by Cyril Neveu, a French biker who drove the Yamaha XT500. In his career, he won five Dakar motorcycle group championships in 1979, 80, 82, 86 and 87.

The champion with the most titles in Dakar
The French Stephen Peter Hansel is a name that cannot be missed in the history of Dakar. The record of six championships he set in the motorcycle group has not been broken yet. Then he joined the automobile group in a torrent of courage and created the record of eight championships in the automobile group again, which can be called the most famous "god of bikes" in the history of Dakar. The last time he won the championship was in 2021. From 2022, he drove Audi's electric racing bike. This year is still the same. Will he become the first electric Dakar champion in history? Among the current motorcycle riders, Toby Price (2016 and 2019), who won two championships, and Sam Sunderland (2017 and 2022), the new king, won the most.

The country most rich in Dakar champions
Niewu and Peter Hansel mentioned above are both French bikers, and the founder of Dakar Rally is also a French biker. This sport is really popular in France. Of the 43 championships that have been decided, 22 have been taken away by French bikers, including Auriol, Saincourt, De Prey and other Dakar champions from France. However, the last time the French biker won the championship was Depre in 2013. In recent years, the countries of Dakar's champion bikers have become more and more diverse. The advantages of French bikers are no longer obvious. Argentina, the United States, Austria, Australia, the United Kingdom and other countries have begun to emerge the world's top rally bikers.

Bikers who win the most championship in a single session
In the Paris - Algiers - Dakar Rally in 1984, the French biker Auriol won half of the 18 stages and took the championship in 9 stages. Unfortunately, he only won the second place in that year, and others won the championship. So as long as Dakar does not cross the finish line at the last stage, the outcome is not certain. Among the current bikers, Toby Price, an Australian, won 6 of the 13 stages in 2016, and won the championship of the year's total results.

The biker who has won the most stages
De Prey and Peter Hansel, two veteran players, won 33 stages of the Dakar Motorcycle Group competition in which they participated, and tied for the first place. However, Juan Barre Dabot, a motorcyclist in the active motorcycle group, ranked first among the active riders with 30 stage championships, of which the 30th was won in the fourth stage of Dakar in 2023 yesterday. It is a pity that he has not won the championship and can be called the uncrowned king.

The bike factory that won the most championship
KTM dominated the Dakar motorcycle group for 19 years from 2001 to 2019. Before that, only Honda and Yamaha had created four consecutive championships in the 1980s and 1990s respectively. In the past 43 sessions of Dakar, KTM has taken 18 champions, 9 from Yamaha, 7 from Honda, 6 from BMW and 2 from Kajiva, and GASGAS took the latest one last year. It seems that any bike factory has a long way to go to break the KTM record.