After five Dakar Rally starts, eight Silk Way Rallies, and a Morocco Desert Challenge win over the past decade, Aliaksei Vishneuski has left MAZ-SPORTauto and rally raid with plans of focusing on drifting.
After a successful first foray into SSVs by winning as a co-driver, W2RC Quad champion Manuel Andújar will now sit in the driver’s seat at the Rally Raid San Rafael in September.
Ryan Arciero is now a back-to-back-to-back-to-back winner of the Vegas to Reno after winning his duel with Nic Whetstone.
After seven tries, Toyota Gazoo Racing Thailand is finally an Asia Cross Country Rally winner as Mana Pornsiricherd led the way in his Toyota Hilux Revo.
Johan Kristoffersson has done it again, bouncing back from a disappointing day 1 to claim a resounding victory in Belgium.
2019 World Champion Timmy Hansen has taken victory in spectacular fashion at round 5 of the 2024 FIA World Rallycross Championship.
Primm will once again play host to short course off-road racing as part of the Mint 400’s support card in 2025.
Former Quad rider Juraj Varga made his début as the driver of a side-by-side at last weekend’s Hungarian Baja. Although new to the vehicle and he wasn’t classified, he feels he’s getting comfortable the more he runs.
The full transcript of The Checkered Flag’s interview with 2025 Dakar Rally-bound Polaris driver Brock Heger.
Françoise Elby, an artist and 5× Paris–Dakar Rally competitor who was the highest finishing woman in 1983, died earlier this week at the age of 85.
Electric and internal combustion engine get ready to battle once more as the 2024 FIA World Rallycross Championship heads to Belgium.
Alain Cournil, who ran the Cournil 4×4 marque and sponsored its drivers in the early Paris–Dakar Rallies before it became the modern UMM, died earlier this week at the age of 74.
Brock Heger, an American off-road star who has won in virtually everything he’s touched, sat down with The Checkered Flag to discuss heading to the Dakar Rally for the first time in 2025.
The Real Way to Dakar, a rally that loosely follows the old Dakar Rally route from Europe to Senegal, has been shut down as the organisers’ families are dealing with serious health crises.
After finishing 25th in the SSV category at their maiden Dakar Rally this year, the Grzegorzs of Overlimit will have another shot in 2025.
Buggyra boss Martin Koloc’s cross-country début ended early after he withdrew from the Hungarian Baja, feeling navigation was too dangerous amidst dust and getting lost on the Bakony military training range.
One-time FIM Bajas World Cup rider Henry Favre will make his Dakar Classic début in 2025 in a 1990 Mitsubishi Pajero shared with Alessandro Iacovelli.



