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Several riders participating in the 2021 Saudi Dakar rally held a press conference in Jeddah on Thursday to highlight the international event.
They expressed their happiness to be in the Kingdom for the second edition of the rally.
The 2021 race begins in Jeddah in January and ends on January 15.
The runners praised the Kingdom’s natural topography that would test their skill and experience.
Saudi Arabia’s Yazid Al-Rajhi, who took fourth place in the 2020 event, vowed to overcome previous problems in hopes of winning the race.
The Dakar started in 1977 as a race from Paris and across the Sahara desert to the Senegalese capital in West Africa and has long been regarded as the toughest motorsports challenge in the world.
It has been performed in South America since 2009 after leaving Africa for security reasons.
Saudi Arabia’s staging of the event in 2020 marked the first time it was held in the Middle East.
Veteran Spanish driver Carlos Sainz was the winner.
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