The rally is about to get going in earnest, for up to date information the best places are :-

• Official Dakar rally website
• Racing Live Dakar coverage (With a video diary)
• Eurosport (including video clips)

This year should be decent as they have outlawed one of the most useful technologies of recent times, GPS has been banned (sort of) and co-drivers must now read normal maps to get them from A-B. The GPS units that are supplied to the teams are official ones only and they activate automatically when within a 3km radius of a checkpoint, they also call home so the organisers know where all the vehicles are. There are also other minor changes, bikes are only capable of 150kph and fuel restrictions are in place this year.

Should be a good challenge for the drivers/riders (like it was easy before!). In Europe Eurosport will have regular updates when the rally gets into full swing.