Dania Akeel joins Bakkerud at JBXE for 2024
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JBXE is the latest Extreme E team to dip into the rally raid pool as they have signed Dania Akeel to be Andreas Bakkerud’s team-mate.
Lewis Hamilton’s 2022 Extreme E championship-winning Team X44 is exiting the series.
The Dacia Sandrider will undergo testing with Nasser Al-Attiyah, Cristina Gutiérrez, and Sébastien Loeb after the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in March. It débuts at the Rallye du Maroc in October.
The Budapest–Bamako Rally, the largest amateur rally raid going from Hungary to Sierra Leone, had to adjust its route in Senegal as protests over the presidential election’s postponement continue.
After 12 years and three Dakar Rally wins, Gustavo Gugelmin is walking away from navigating to spend time with his family. He was recently the co-driver for Austin Jones.
With his wrist healed after breaking it in last month’s Dakar Rally, Tosha Schareina will spend the buildup to the next World Rally-Raid Championship race by entering the FIM E-Xplorer World Cup.
Kyle Chaney had a wild week at King of the Hammers as he won the UTV Hammers Championship and nearly claimed the Race of Kings, but JP Gomez’s frantic charge from starting 99th propelled him to the top.
After making his Dakar Rally début in the SSV category, Eduard Pons plans to race in the higher Challenger class at the 2025 race. To prepare him, he will run the Saudi Baja in a Taurus T3 Max.
South Africa wants to host the World Rally-Raid Championship in 2025. To hopefully achieve this, the South African Rally-Raid Championship has turned the Waterberg 400 into a three-day event for 2024.
Matthias Walkner missed the Dakar Rally after a severe fracture in testing that rendered his left ankle little more than dust, but 33 hours of surgeries and 2 months of hospital stays later, he’s going home.
McLaren will have a pair of rally raiders for the 2024 Extreme E lineup as they sign Mattias Ekström and newly crowned Dakar Rally Challenger winner Cristina Gutiérrez.
Sergei Kariakin: "(Dakar) organisers are working hard to find ways for Russian teams to participate"
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On the heels of being allowed to race the Abu Dhabi Baja Challenge, Dakar Rally alumnus Sergei Kariakin believes the ASO is trying to get Russians like him and KAMAZ-master back on the Dakar grid.
Oleksandr Medvedchenko, 4× Soviet Formula Easter champion who raced Ukraine’s only European Truck Racing Championship entry, got a 2-year scholarship from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in December.
After finishing third in the Dakar Rally’s Challenger category, Rokas Baciuška will once again race a Toyota Hilux T1+ at the Saudi Baja before committing to the Ultimate class for the 2025 Dakar Rally.
Jaromir Romancik: "(Malle Moto) is the real Dakar and it's probably the cheapest option for me"
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Jaromír Romančík’s maiden Dakar Rally didn’t end as he hoped, but he’s eager to be back in 2025 and possibly competing solo in the Original by Motul classs.
Jan de Rooy, Dutch and FIA European Rallycross star in the 1970s and winner of the 1987 Paris–Dakar Rally in the Truck category, died Tuesday at the age of 80.
The Dacia Sandrider will run the Rallye du Maroc in 2024 followed by the 2025 World Rally-Raid Championship and Dakar Rally with Sébastien Loeb, Cristina Gutiérrez, and Nasser Al-Attiyah.
