After enjoying an "almost perfect" 2025 season, world rally-raid champion Daniel Sanders knows he has a target on his back as he seeks to make motorsport history as the first Australian to successfully defend a Dakar Rally crown
The Victorian motorcyclist, whose triumph last January kicked off an unprecedentedly brilliant season as he won the first four of the five championship races and finished second in the other, is back in the Saudi desert as strong favourite for a repeat Dakar triumph.
No man has won the two-wheel prize back-to-back at the world's most celebrated rally since Spain's Marc Coma back in 2015, with Sanders, on his Red Bull KTM, seeking the consecutive victories that even eluded his great Australian mentor Toby Price.
