Friday, January 6th, 2023: Marhaba to the now annual Saudi Dakar Rally and to a wet and wild start to the year. . It rained Irish-style across Riyadh on January 6th and 7th. Despite the stormy conditions, we set off from home, hoping the weather would clear as the day wore on. We were a group of more than fourteen cars (divided into three groups) who left Riyadh in a thunderstorm at about 5.30 am. Our mission was to head north to intersect with Stages six and seven of the D