Guincho Racing

A final video before the summer of 2026 rolls in at full speed. It really sums up our experience in the and we can’t wait to see what comes next.

A heartfelt thank you to you all our amazing sponsors for their endless support and backing. We are so pleased to have had you with us all the way to Dakar and can’t wait to present our next opportunities for more collaboration and adventure soon!!








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This week we were lucky enough to get a dump of amazing photographs from Rally Cool Photography from - Thank you it has reminded me of how totally epic it is racing across the desert.

The dust, the scenery, the speed, the sliding and the excitement is captured brilliantly in this little series of pictures (more to follow). Now we are pining for the freedom of being in the rally, when can we go back!?

Breaking down is part of life when you run old cars, but taking a 35 year old car into the middle of the Sahara with no support and then racing it might be close to madness. We loved it.

The only way to really experience the wilds of African Sahara is to be stranded and have to find a way to keep going. I would suggest losing the fuel pump in the middle of Mauritania is up there with as far from help as you can find yourself, but we soldiered on.

Two big failures of note, losing our transfer box and therefore all drive in Western Sahara and losing the fuel pump in Mauritania. Amazingly we carried a spare transfer box as had warned us of impending failure so a Moroccan workshop worked through the night to keep us moving.

The fuel pump was more of a McGuivre affair, we magpied around the bivouac pinching parts off fellow competitors such as and until we had something resembling a working fuel system to propel us to Dakar.

Our final visit from the f**k up fairy was when a coolant hose burst, and we drove on innocently for nearly 20kms wondering what the new chemical burning smell was as coolant pi**ed all over our exhaust…Thank God for incredible radiator which demonstrated extraordinary ability to keep the engine cool despite dribbles of coolant. Without the exceptional radiator we would have totally destroyed the engine, so thank you to the Allisport team for keeping us moving and the amusing noises from the header tank when I added a bottle of water when it was clearly well above 100 degrees!

Sadly the blown hose lead to a blown head gasket, so our competitive run came to an end. But determined to finish we nursed the old Range Rover all the way to Dakar.

An amazing first few days of in Morocco, some amazing racing (difficult to film) and some mega camp spots. We are currently heading towards Western Sahara. Dakar is only 4,000kms away after 2,000k of race distance to date.

It’s worth mentioning in case we have@t already, we are the only unsupported team taking on this epic race and amazingly we are still rolling with the pros!!

Stuck in Tarifa waiting for a horrible storm to pass through, so we can cross the straits to the start line in Tangier. We can literally see on the horizon across the violent seas….

No idea what we will do with half of this kit. Most of is on board the ferry from Marseille with their support trucks, we are working out how to get all of this into the boot of the car!