Dakar Rally 2016: Latest Results and Updated Schedule Info

The 2016 Dakar rally will officially kick off with its first stage on Sunday, but the field of competitors across four categories took to the Argentinian roads for the first time on Saturday in a short prologue. Joan Barreda clocked the fastest time in the bike category, but the differences between the competitors were minor at best due to the short distance. Paulo Goncalves completely missed his start due to a mechanical fault, but even he only sits one minute behind the leader in the classification. Here are the top results in the bike, quad and car categories, courtesy of the race's official Twitter account: An accident involving four spectators saw the rest of the prologue neutralised, per the event's official website. The schedule fo...

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