The Dakar Rally has never been short on scale, but Saudi Arabia gives it a particularly cinematic edge.
Sara Price: Chasing Dakar, a new three-part docuseries narrated by Gillian Anderson, follows American driver Sara Price through the 2026 edition of the rally, taking viewers into the exhaustion, risk and split-second judgement behind one of motorsport’s most punishing events.
The series premieres across MENA on discovery on 12 June 2026 at 21:55 KSA, with discovery+ streaming available via OSN+ and stc tv from the same date.
At a glance
- Sara Price: Chasing Dakar is a three-part docuseries following the 2026 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia.
- The series tracks Sara Price’s third Dakar attempt with Defender Rally, alongside teammates Stéphane Peterhansel and Rokas Baciuška.
- It premieres in MENA on discovery and discovery+ via OSN+ and stc tv from 12 June 2026, with weekly episodes.
Saudi Arabia as Dakar’s unforgiving stage
The 2026 Dakar Rally covered an 8,000km route across Saudi Arabia, pushing 317 teams through sand, rock and extreme terrain before finishing in Yanbu after two weeks of racing.
That landscape is central to the series, not just as scenery but as the force that shapes every decision inside the cockpit and every repair outside it.
The desert’s scale gives the show its tension, turning navigation, mechanical resilience and fatigue into daily battles rather than background details.
Sara Price’s third shot at Dakar
Price arrives with serious competitive pedigree as a 17-time national motocross champion, but Dakar operates by its own ruthless logic.
The series follows her third attempt at the rally with Defender Rally, placing her in a team environment that also includes Stéphane Peterhansel and Rokas Baciuška.
Rather than presenting Dakar as a clean heroic arc, the cameras stay close to the harder parts of the campaign, including early setbacks and the decisions that can define an entire race.
That access is the point.
Motorsport documentaries work best when they show the gap between ambition and execution, and Sara Price: Chasing Dakar appears built around that pressure.
Three episodes inside the race
The series runs across three 45-minute episodes, combining race footage, behind-the-scenes access and more personal moments away from the stages.
Gillian Anderson’s narration gives the project a recognisable voice, while the embedded production approach keeps the focus on the lived reality of competing rather than simply explaining the event from a distance.
For viewers in the region, the timing is particularly fitting.
Dakar’s Saudi chapter has become one of the defining motorsport spectacles in the Middle East, and this series puts the Kingdom’s terrain and the rally’s human cost at the centre of the story.
Where to watch in MENA
Sara Price: Chasing Dakar premieres on discovery on 12 June 2026 at 21:55 KSA.
The series will also be available on discovery+ via OSN+ and stc tv from 12 June 2026, with new episodes released weekly.
For motorsport followers, Dakar obsessives and viewers drawn to endurance stories with real consequences, this looks like a sharp, access-driven account of what it takes to survive the rally rather than simply start it.
