There is no doubt, KTM do not lay down when times are tough. The start of the 2025 season has started just as we expected from KTM, as they won A1 and then the Dakar rally. As an advertiser here on mxlarge and our deals already done for 2025, we are proud to be involved with this amazing brand and as they stand up from being punched to the ground and start throwing punches again, the whole sport of motocross should applaud them.

Red Bull KTM factory rider Daniel Sanders entered the Dakar rally history books, becoming only the second Australian to take victory at the Dakar and the first motorcyclist in 16 years to lead from start to finish.

"It's massive. When I came over the last dune, I could see the bivouac and then I just got instant chills through the whole body. I was super, super nervous, yeah, couldn't believe it. All the emotions started coming through as you could see the finish line. It's the biggest race in the world for motorbikes and off-road, so to win the Six-Day International Enduro and then now the Dakar, it's just ticked off all the goals for my career and everything I've wanted to achieve. So it's a massive accomplishment."

Without KTM the sport is in some trouble, but with them, we carry on with the same determination that KTM went through their current situation. So, A1 won, Dakar won, and what else can this amazing company achieve in 2025.

More later on the victory of Australian Daniel Sanders, who led from start to finish and showed why KTM signed him from GasGas. You can watch the podium celebrations right here: Dakar 2025 - live ceremony

Final Results here: Dakar - Live race coverage

Dakar final day is never a done deal. A handful of years ago it was decided by a matter of seconds on the final stage between KTM teammates Kevin Benavides and Toby Price, in favour of the Argentinian.

No so this year as Sanders takes a remarkable start-to-finish win for KTM and completes the rare honour of winning the Dakar and ISDE outright.

Tosha Schareina, Adrien Van Beveren and Ricky Brabec red army have sat behind an unassailable Daniel Sanders for the entire two weeks who has taken a remarkable start to finish win for KTM. The Australian hit the ground running from the prologue, nailed confident and fast first stages and simply left all his major rivals wishing they’d done something different.

The final 61 kilometres today was long enough, around an hour to complete and with a mass start which is a rarity for these guys who spend so much time alone in the desert.

Easy enough you might think but as always with Dakar, just enough jeopardy thrown in to make the butterflies swirl around.

Sanders is a racer and dusted his rivals away from the start, leading the pack as it ripped down the flat piste like Dakar of years gone by when it used to conclude on the shores of the Atlantic off the coast of Africa…in Dakar funnily enough.

Adrien Van Beveren took his chance to race like he was on Le Touquet beach once again and took an early lead. But he was to be denied by South African Michael Docherty, the stage 10 winner, who clocked in just three seconds faster to deny AVB and take his second stage win of his career.

But the limelight was reserved for Sanders who, after 53h08m52s completes the round 20 wins for KTM who could do with a bit of good PR at the moment!