Akira Miura’s Toyota Land Cruiser and Kay Huzink’s hybrid Renault truck, neither of which comply with FIA regulation, seemed quite accustomed to the desert environments in Morocco as Open vehicles.
The MM Technology EVO 4 is 1-for-1 after winning every stage in the Truck class in Morocco, while Kees Koolen finished behind Martin Macík Jr. to secure a 1–2 for the new truck.
In the closest FIA points battle where Yasir Seaidan and Sebastián Guayasamín were separated by just six points, Seaidan’s desert expertise kicked in at the perfect time to secure the SSV championship.
Antanas Kanopkinas battled with Kamil Wiśniewski throughout the Rallye du Maroc, and the former seized on a last-day mechanical failure to score CFMOTO Thunder Racing Team’s first World Rally-Raid Championship race win.
2024 Rallye du Maroc: Souleymane Addahri wins Rally3 on home soil, John Medina ices title
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After finishing third in 2023, Morocco’s Souleymane Addahri topped the Rallye du Maroc in Rally3 while John Medina secured the World Rally-Raid Championship by simply starting the race.
After just two rounds, the 2024/25 Nitrocross calendar—with dates in Phoenix, Miami, and Las Vegas—has been put on hold.
With team-mate Akira Miura competing in the Open class, Ronald Basso was all by himself in the Stock category. It is the first time in World Rally-Raid Championship history that a sanctioned class (excluding Open) had just one vehicle.
The Challenger class at all five stages of the Rallye du Maroc, including the Prologue, was won by a Taurus T3 Max. By the end, Eryk Goczał was leading a 1–2–3–4–5 for Tauruses.
Although the only rider to run every round of the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship and he did not win any of them, Ross Branch’s consistency helped him hold off a Honda onslaught and win the title in the premier bike category.
In the very first race for the Dacia Sandrider, Nasser Al-Attiyah was dominant as he secured his third World Rally-Raid Championship in as many years.
In a race themed around celebrating the Lancia 037, the Porsche 911 of Julien Saunier and Frédéric Vauclare came out on top.
Although his European Union sanctions are officially lifted, Nikita Mazepin has no plan of racing in Formula One again. His motorsport focus is expected to remain on sports cars and cross-country rally.
Rokas Baciuška, the newly crowned World Rally-Raid Challenger Champion, heard some rumours suggesting the 2025 Dakar won’t take place due to the wars in the Middle East. It’s the first time fellow Lithuanians Benediktas Vanagas, Antanas Juknevičius and Vaidotas Žala heard the chatter; sentiment holds that while not impossible, it’s just hearsay for now.
Three years after his début, Ukrainian and world land speed record holder Serhii Malyk is looking to race the Dakar Classic again in 2025 with his Renault Kerax D-50. His team will be dubbed Spirit of Ukraine after the electric bike he built for the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2019.
The Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme has set up shop at a new building in Mies, Switzerland, which also includes a new museum highlighting bike racing’s history.
Janey Lee and Kylie Walton, who have been among the iconic Monster Energy Girls since 2015, will make their desert racing débuts at this weekend’s NORRA 500, racing a Can-Am Maverick.
The 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship officially came to a close Friday with the fifth and final leg of the Rallye du Maroc.
