Yamaha Desert Challenge introduced for 2024
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The Yamaha Desert Challenge, created by Yamaha Motor Europe on the heels of their successful YXZ1000R spec rally raid series, will run alongside the Carta Rallye in 2024.
After making six starts across the last two years, Layne Riggs will move up to the NASCAR Truck Series full-time in 2024 with Front Row Motorsports.
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Xfinity team will run 2 cars for Sheldon Creed and Chandler Smith, the #20 for Aric Almirola and John Hunter Nemechek, and #19 for Taylor Gray, Joe Graf Jr., William Sawalich and Ryan Truex.
Freshly reinstated by NASCAR, Noah Gragson will make his Cup Series return in 2024 in the #10 Ford of Stewart-Haas Racing.
Toyota Gazoo Racing will field the Toyota GR DKR Hilux EVO T1U for Seth Quintero and Lucas Moraes in the 2024 Dakar Rally and World Rally-Raid Championship.
Now that he’s made the move to America, Supercars great Shane van Gisbergen will run full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Kaulig Racing along with 7 races in the Cup Series for Trackhouse.
With GMS Racing’s shutdown, 2023 NASCAR Truck Series championship runner-up Grant Enfinger will race for CR7 Motorsports in 2024.
With his domestic assault charges dropped, Cody Ware was reinstated by NASCAR on Monday. He received an indefinite suspension in April.
Oliver Eriksson and Robin Larsson topped Nitrocross’ Group E classes during this weekend’s Glen Helen Raceway round.
It was an inevitability when he joined Prodrive for 2024 and is now a reality: two-time World Rally-Raid Champion Nasser Al-Attiyah will race for Dacia starting in 2025.
After two years, Tanner Foust and Emma Gilmour will not return to McLaren XE for the 2024 Extreme E season.
70 Ultimate (T1), 43 in Challenger (T3), 36 SSV (T4), 47 Truck (T5), and 3 Stock (T2) vehicles make up the near-200 that will race the Dakar Rally in 2024.
Although he broke his elbow at the Rallye du Maroc, which will prevent him from running the 2024 Dakar Rally, Julien Jagu feels the wreck has shaped him for the better as he continues to heal up.
The top 3 in the World Rally-Raid Championship, led by Nasser Al-Attiyah, along with other 2023 cross-country champs were celebrated at the FIA Prize Giving Ceremony in Baku.
Thad Moffitt, grandson of Richard Petty, will race the #46 full-time in the 2024 NASCAR Truck Series for the newly created Faction46 team.
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Despite winning a Cup Series race, A.J. Allmendinger will drop back down to the NASCAR Xfinity Series with Kaulig Racing for 2024.
