The new Dacia Sandrider needs to survive in hot deserts for the 2025 Dakar Rally. Sébastien Loeb feels the car performs well so far, at least until the air conditioning malfunctions.
After coming up short in 2023, Team Mitsubishi Ralliart’s quartet of Sakchai Hantrakul, Kazuto Koide, Katsuhiko Taguchi and Chayapon Yotha will race a more durable Triton at the 2024 Asia Cross Country Rally.
Tibau Team will field an IVECO for Helena Tarruell Tibau, Jaqueline Ricci, and Rebeca Aramburu at the Baja Aragón, with hopes of eventually racing the Dakar Rally.
Only 14 of the 28 FIA European Baja Cup drivers, including 4 of the 10 Ultimates and half of the SSVs, finished the Italian Baja.
Honda’s American rally raiders Skyler Howes and Ricky Brabec will once again team up in their home country when they share a bike at the Vegas to Reno in August.
Like 2023, Tamara Molinaro and Tommi Hallman will be be reserve and test drivers for Extreme E when the series hits Scotland this weekend.
Former Ganassi driver Amanda Sorensen will return to Extreme E in Scotland with JBXE.
The 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), stationed at Fort Carson, climbed to nearby Pikes Peak summit to present the checkered flag for the International Hill Climb to help promote the Army in the community.
After finishing 10th in 2023, Masanao Nitta’s Toyota Hilux will once again be the only vehicle in the Asia Cross Country Rally with bodywork made from natural fibres at the 2024 edition.
Extreme E Championship Driver and rallycross ace Patrick O’Donovan will finally make his XE competition début in Scotland, driving for Legacy Motor Club.
Defending Dakar Rally winner and new Ford driver Carlos Sainz will attend the Goodwood Festival of Speed alongside the new Ford Raptor T1+.
After being kicked off Tofta shooting range by the Swedish Army, the world’s biggest enduro race is looking to host its 2024 edition more inland in Hejdeby, pending approval of the County Board.
Toyota Auto Body’s Morocco test “experienced heat-related problems” that “never occurred before” in the 40-plus Celsius deserts of Morocco, but they’re happy campers as they prep for the 2025 Dakar Rally.
Rallye Breslau, the largest amateur rally raid in Europe, celebrated 30 years with a brutal slog through the Żagań and Drawsko military training areas in Poland.
Historic Sportscar Racing has created the NASCAR Classic presented by Petty’s Garage for stock cars before the current generation. It will début at IMSA’s Virginia International Raceway round in August.
Kart racer and Williams Driver Academy member Oleksandr Bondarev felt a “huge shock” about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially as his father is still living there, but has his teams’ support.
World Rally-Raid Quad Champion Manuel Andújar is already a race winner in a side-by-side on his first try as he navigated Juan Cruz Yacopini to the Rally Raid San Juan victory.
