FILE PHOTO: Rallying - Dakar Rally - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - December 31, 2020 The car of PH-Sport's Lionel Baud and Co-Driver Loic Minaudier as teams prepare for the start of the Dakar rally REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed
(Reuters) - The Dakar Rally, the first major motorsport event of 2021, heads into the dunes and remote deserts of Saudi Arabia in a bivouac 'bubble' this weekend.
All participants in the gruelling event, which starts in Jeddah on Sunday and ends in the Red Sea port on Jan. 15, have had to quarantine for COVID-19 after arriving on charter flights.
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