Five-time Dakar Rally winner Marc Coma has announced his retirement from active competition to become the event's sporting director. Coma, a winner of the Dakar in the bikes category in 2006, 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2015, will work alongside Dakar boss Etienne Lavigne. Coma will start working on the organisation of the 2016 Dakar already this month. The 38-year-old Spaniard, a six-time cross-country rallies world champion, competed in the Dakar 12 times, finishing on the podium seven times and winning 25 stages in total. Coma is leading this year's cross-country world championship, but he said last month's Sardegna rally will be his last. "I'm retiring because I think it's the right...
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