Dakar 2024 live, stage 5 (Al-Hofuf – Shubaytah): schedules, TV channels and where to watch

Dakar 2024 Live: know all the details of stage 5 of the rally raid between Al-Hofuf and Shubaytah. The deserts and dunes of Saudi Arabia are the setting for the Dakar, the first major sporting event of 2024, which began this Wednesday, January 10.

STAGE 4 – DAKAR 2024 WHAT TIME DOES IT START?

DEPARTURE TIME – MOTORCYCLES

10:30 p.m. on Friday – Mexico

11:30 p.m. on Friday – Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, United States (Miami)

00:30 hours on Saturday – Venezuela, Bolivia

01:30 hours on Saturday – Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile

05:30 Sunday – Spain, Germany, Italy, France

DEPARTURE TIME – CARS

10:39 p.m. on Friday – Mexico

23:39 hours – Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, United States (Miami)

00:39 hours on Saturday – Venezuela, Bolivia

07:39 hours on Saturday – Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Chile

05:39 hours on Saturday – Spain, Germany, Italy, France

WHERE TO SEE DAKAR 2024

Images of the Dakar can be seen on ESPN and Star Plus internationally, while Eurosport, Teledeporte and RTVE Play and TV3 will show the rally in Spain and Fox Sports in Mexico.

DAKAR 2024 LIVE

DAKAR TOUR 2024

This Dakar that begins on Friday leaves the sensation of being the one of changes: from the Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah, current car champion, who leaves Toyota and has signed for Prodrive, to the new names of the categories, which now have proper name and forget T1, T2, T3, T4 and T5.

Thus, T1, the until now highest category of cars – in which, for example, the Spanish Carlos Sainz competes -, will be called Ultimate, T2 will be called Stock, T3 will be Challenger until now, T4 will become SSV and T5 will be Trucks, while Motorcycles and Quads will continue with the same names.

This new adventure through the Saudi Arabian desert, the fifth in a row to be located in the Arabian Peninsula, will feature these five new classes, after the FIA ​​and the Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), organizer of the event, have agreed change their name.

But this is not the only change, since 2024 arrives with a dance of drivers who change teams, categories or who simply return to competition after a year off.

This is the case of the Spaniard Nani Roma, who after several years driving for Prodrive had to be absent in 2023 due to bladder cancer that forced him to stop short and worry about his health. However, the Catalan has now completely recovered from the illness and is back in the hands of Ford, who has trusted him with his project.

The Barcelonan seems to have responded and be in tune. After missing the Dakar for the first time in 27 years, he finished third in both the Baja España Aragón rally and the Morocco rally, two of the great preparation tests for the best-known rally race.

The one who was there last year was the Qatari Nasser Al-Attiyah, who won his fifth Dakar, his third with Toyota. However, the current champion changed teams in the summer and moved to Prodrive, along with Frenchman Sebastian Löeb. Al-Attiyah will drive a Hunter T-1 with which he has the challenge of winning his third consecutive Touareg and his fourth Dakar in six years.

Joan Barreda from Castellón has also changed vehicles. A true stage hunter, the Spaniard will change his classic Honda for a Hero motorcycle, the Indian team with which he seeks the title that has always eluded him in the Dakar, despite accumulating more than two dozen stage victories.

The one who will seek his first ‘étage’ in the Dakar is the Valencian Tosha Schareina, who after a creditable thirteenth position last year faces his first year as an HRC factory driver, in the Monster Energy Honda Team. In his first season, he already won the Baja España Aragón rally and finished fifth in the prestigious Morocco Rally, in which he won the second stage.