![Laia Sanz poses with the ‘buggy’ she will drive during the 2024 Dakar Rally, a race across one of the largest dunes in the Moroccan Sahara.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/PNG7FGNADZG2NH5AV44LRF2H3Q.jpg?auth=d59117fb64c7bae87ab950bba29e1308ab740090b9a7926300d8b94e19f08d9f&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
Rally raid star Laia Sanz flies over desert dunes ahead of the Dakar 2024
We took a spin with Catalan race driver Laia Sanz on her last day of training in the Sahara. On January 5, after a lifetime on a motorbike, she will race her third Dakar behind the wheel of a car, and her fourteenth overall. The race is notoriously harsh, but she has never once not finished it