It was hot and risky.

Two drivers ride in one car through stage one of the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia. (AP)
A Dakar motorbike rider makes trails across the desert. (AP)
A map of the Dakar Rally 2020. The race runs all around Saudi Arabia. (AP)
A racer rides his motorbike across the dunes. (AP)
Driver Stéphane of France, and co-driver Paulo, of Portugal, race their Mini in the Dakar Rally. (AP)

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Rumble. Vroom. Whoosh! It was the Dakar Rally.

This race was not on a road. It was over hot desert sand in Saudi Arabia.

Some racers got lost. Some broke down. The race was dangerous [dane-jer-us].

READ MORE: Frenchman Thierry Sabine started the Dakar Rally races 43 years ago. Racers have driven cars, trucks, motorcycles, quads, and UTVs through desert sands in Africa and South America. The 12-day race now has moved to Saudi Arabia. One-third of that country is desert. It is on a hot, dry peninsula between the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. God protected the Israelites when they wandered in the desert. Read Isaiah 48:21.