Hennie de Klerk and TreasuryONE Motorsport plan to return to the Dakar Rally in 2026, and will hone their skills by adopting a Dakar-style race strategy in the 2024 South African Rally-Raid Championship.
Ted Toleman, who died last Wednesday, is best known for his team that launched Ayrton Senna’s F1 career. After selling the team to Benetton, he went on to tackle the legendary Paris–Dakar Rally three times.
Tacita used lessons learned from racing the 2024 Dakar Rally with the Discanto electric bike to develop their T-Race Enduro, Motard, and Motorally models.
Red-Lined Motorsport’s REVO+ GT-R, a T1+ that uses a Nissan GT-R engine (much like Dacia’s Dakar Rally car), will run the South African Rally-Raid Championship with Chris Visser and Dave Klaassen.
Bournezeau Rallye Aventure will race the 2025 Dakar Rally with a Drakart Scorpion driven by Yannick Grèzes and the Dakar Classic with Julien Bessé in a Mitsubishi Pajero and Tenessy Grèzes in a Toyota HDJ80.
Stadium Super Trucks driver and former LOORRS UTV champ Robert Stout will race a Pro 4 truck for the first time during the 2024 Championship Off-Road season.
From Juraj Varga intentionally retiring from Portugal to Manuel Andújar’s plea to the FIM, many Quad competitors are unsurprisingly less than pleased about their class being axed from the Dakar Rally for 2025.
Hoping to create one of the toughest off-road races in the United States, Best In The Desert will organise the inaugural Nevada 1000 Invitational in April 2025.
The full transcript of The Checkered Flag’s interview with 2024 San Felipe 250 UTV overall winner Cayden MacCachren.
With the demise of the Quad category, Pablo Copetti will switch to driving an SSV for the 2025 Dakar Rally as he races a Polaris RZR for TH-Trucks Team.
Fantic will let XEF 450 Rally owners enter amateur rallies as part of the Fantic Rally Xperience, or tackle the 2025 Dakar Rally with factory support and a shot at joining their works team in 2026.
On the heels of his San Felipe 250 UTV win to begin the 2024 SCORE season, Cayden MacCachren chatted with The Checkered Flag about the victory, Polaris Factory Racing, and the UTV racing scene at large.
GRS Team opens cross-country rally arm
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Spanish F4 and Eurocup outfit Global Racing Service will compete in the 2024 Spanish Cross-Country Rally Championship.
Missed the BP Ultimate Rally-Raid? Here’s an archive of The Checkered Flag’s day-by-day coverage from start (and even before that) to finish.
Peugeot TotalEnergies have revealed their 2024 upgraded Peugeot 9X8, the car which will contest the 2024 FIA WEC.
2024 BP Ultimate Rally-Raid: Carlos Jorge Mendes, Johan Senders complete race in Stock, Open
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Carlos Jorge Mendes and Johan Senders were respectively the BP Ultimate Rally-Raid’s only entrants in the Stock and Open categories, so their competition was against Portugal and Spain itself.
After Manuel Andújar crashed while leading in Portugal, Kamil Wiśniewski took the Quad lead and never looked back.
