Lithuanians Benediktas Vanagas and Vladas Jurkevičius will race Toyota Hiluxes at the 2024 Dakar Rally for Toyota Gazoo Racing Baltics.
KH-7 Epsilon Team, who was barred from racing the 2023 Dakar Rally’s T5 class as their MAN was hydrogen/diesel powered, will instead compete in the 2024 race’s Mission 1000 programme.
For the first time since 2019, the 2024 Silk Way Rally will depart Russia as it begins in Tomsk, heads through Khovd, Mongolia, and ends in Khorgos, China.
American Outdoor Events will not proceed with their Pro Series short course championship in 2024.
After a falling out with an unnamed partner, Mike Harmon has reverted CHK Racing’s name to Mike Harmon Racing for the 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.
The 2024 Dakar Rally, the fifth in Saudi Arabia, is slightly shorter than its 2023 counterpart at 7,891 total km, but the 4,727 in Selective Sections still trumps it.
Astara Team will have double girl power in the driver’s seats of their 02 Concept T1.2 cars for the 2024 Dakar Rally in Laia Sanz and Patricia Pita.
After racing the 2023 Dakar Rally in a Prodrive Hunter, Vaidotas Žala will drive the Mini JCW Rally Plus for X-raid at the 2024 edition. He raced a Mini from 2020 to 2022.
Mohammed Al-Balooshi entered the Dubai International Baja trailing David Megre by just six points, but left as both a race winner and FIM Bajas World Cup champion.
Wouter-jan Van Dijk, a Dutch expat from Australia, arrived in Mexico with no SCORE experience and a barely legal dirt bike. 48 hours and a bunch of zip ties and trips to OXXO later, he completed the Baja 1000 solo.
New Williams driver Lia Block and NASCAR’s Riley Herbst were among the class winners while Bryce Menzies is finally a Baja 1000 champion as they conquered an unforgettable 2023 edition.
After finishing runner-up in the World Rally-Raid Quad Championship, Rodolfo Guillioli is planning to break into navigating in a car for the 2024 season.
Green Power Race will race an electric bike with Fran Pallas in the 2024 Dakar Rally’s Mission 1000 challenge for alternate-power vehicles.
After breaking his arm in an accident in Morocco, Jean-Pascal Besson will have to skip what would have been his twelfth Dakar Rally in 2024.
Josh Williams will be in the best equipment of his NASCAR career in 2024 as he joins Kaulig Racing for next year’s Xfinity season.
After spending his rookie season with McAnally-Hilgemann Racing, Jake Garcia will move to ThorSport Racing for the 2024 NASCAR Truck Series.
Ken Squier, who called NASCAR races during its boom from the 1970s to 1990s, has died at the age of 88.
