Bournezeau Rallye Aventure will race the 2025 Dakar Rally with a Drakart Scorpion driven by Yannick Grèzes and the Dakar Classic with Julien Bessé in a Mitsubishi Pajero and Tenessy Grèzes in a Toyota HDJ80.
Stadium Super Trucks driver and former LOORRS UTV champ Robert Stout will race a Pro 4 truck for the first time during the 2024 Championship Off-Road season.
From Juraj Varga intentionally retiring from Portugal to Manuel Andújar’s plea to the FIM, many Quad competitors are unsurprisingly less than pleased about their class being axed from the Dakar Rally for 2025.
Hoping to create one of the toughest off-road races in the United States, Best In The Desert will organise the inaugural Nevada 1000 Invitational in April 2025.
The full transcript of The Checkered Flag’s interview with 2024 San Felipe 250 UTV overall winner Cayden MacCachren.
With the demise of the Quad category, Pablo Copetti will switch to driving an SSV for the 2025 Dakar Rally as he races a Polaris RZR for TH-Trucks Team.
Fantic will let XEF 450 Rally owners enter amateur rallies as part of the Fantic Rally Xperience, or tackle the 2025 Dakar Rally with factory support and a shot at joining their works team in 2026.
On the heels of his San Felipe 250 UTV win to begin the 2024 SCORE season, Cayden MacCachren chatted with The Checkered Flag about the victory, Polaris Factory Racing, and the UTV racing scene at large.
GRS Team opens cross-country rally arm
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Spanish F4 and Eurocup outfit Global Racing Service will compete in the 2024 Spanish Cross-Country Rally Championship.
Missed the BP Ultimate Rally-Raid? Here’s an archive of The Checkered Flag’s day-by-day coverage from start (and even before that) to finish.
2024 BP Ultimate Rally-Raid: Carlos Jorge Mendes, Johan Senders complete race in Stock, Open
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Carlos Jorge Mendes and Johan Senders were respectively the BP Ultimate Rally-Raid’s only entrants in the Stock and Open categories, so their competition was against Portugal and Spain itself.
After Manuel Andújar crashed while leading in Portugal, Kamil Wiśniewski took the Quad lead and never looked back.
Gonçalo Amaral and his older brother Salvador Amaral won all five stages and the Prologue at the BP Ultimate Rally-Raid en route to a 1–2 finish in Rally3, with their closest rival over an hour back.
When the World Rally-Raid Championship came knocking, two-time Portuguese Cross-Country Champion Bruno Santos defended his home turf with a Rally2 masterclass.
3 months after being the highest-finishing rookie at the Dakar Rally in January, João Monteiro returned home to Portugal to claim the SSV overall at the BP Ultimate Rally-Raid.
Sébastien Loeb might have put on a show in his Challenger class début, but Rokas Baciuška came out on top in Portugal.
A smashing showing in Portugal earned Tosha Schareina his second World Rally-Raid Championship win after Argentina last year and first as a points-eligible rider.
