Dakarchives

Discover the untold history of the world's toughest endurance rally with Dakarchives, the definitive record of the Paris-Dakar in its original form.

Produced and published by ERG Media, the book chronicles the race's evolution from its renegade 1979 debut to the high-technology era of 1991, the final year of the original route, through rare photographs and documents sourced by the ERG team from DPPI, the preeminent Paris-based motorsport archive.

This is the race that had no business existing. Humble city cars and purpose-built prototypes. Factory giants and one-man expeditions. All of them pointed south from Paris, toward the Sahara, toward 10,000 kilometres of dune and rock and mechanical attrition, and the small matter of getting there alive.