The annual Dakar Rally has been ripping across television screens around the world in a cloud of sand and burning fuel for the past two weeks and finally ended on January 16.

The toughest rally race in the world is also a difficult one to photograph with photographers having to get out into some of the most remote terrain on earth to wait out a good shot. The official website has some amazing pictures in their photo gallery from this year’s event with images of cars tearing across the Atacama Desert in Chile, spectators waiting in rivers to watch the participants, trucks churning through sand and motorbikes almost obscured by dust.

The picture of the year award went to Natasha Pisarenko of Associated Press for this image during the 2010 Dakar.

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