KTM 450 Rally

For 2017, the Dakar Rally will start in Paraguay for the first time ever (the race’s 29th host country), before it heads to Bolivia, and then ends in Argentina.

Six days will be spent above 3,000 meters in elevation, and Dakar Sporting Director Marc Coma says it will be the most grueling Dakar Rally ever – as a five-time winner himself.

This is the KTM 450 Rally that KTM will be racing in the 2017 Dakar.

KTM Motorsports has also confirmed that Toby Price and Sam Sunderland to remain with the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team until the end of the 2019 season.

The Australian Toby Price, winner of the 2016 Dakar Rally, said he was “really excited and stoked to be staying with the Red Bull KTM Factory Racing Team until the end of 2019.”

Price:

“It’s going to be the best thing for me so I can just concentrate on what I need to do and that’s riding motorcycles and racing as fast as we can. I’m very privileged and pumped to get this. Pit Beirer has been amazing to deal with and so has Alex Doringer, so it’s exciting times, a great team and a good crew of people. Now I’m just looking forward to what the future holds, to putting our heads down and doing the work. It’s going to be a great time and I’m just hoping we can deliver on the results and do the job we’ve been contracted to do. I can’t wait, and I’m looking forward to what the years ahead bring.”

Sam Sunderland:

“I’m really happy to have extended with KTM. The bike and the team have been great to me in the past years. The team supported me through a recent injury and helped me to come back and fight for the top positions. I’m really excited about the years to come and we will keep moving forward in the same direction, and with the same goal in our sights.” Sunderland wrapped up his 2016 season as vice world champion in the FIM Cross Country Rallies Championship.