Juan Cruz Yacopini is now an FIA Platinum driver for the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship, while others like T3 champion Seth Quintero have been promoted to Gold.
As the FIA drops the T-based structure for rally raid classes for actual terms, manager Jérôme Roussel told Relevo that the process saw much deliberation that even included asking ChatGPT.
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.
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.
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.
The FIA’s World and Middle East Cups for Cross-Country Bajas came to a close for 2023 in Dubai, where Nasser Al-Attiyah headlined the show with his first victory for Prodrive.
Due to the war in Gaza, Israeli rider Alona Ben Natan will not run next week’s Dubai International Baja. She has not raced since the initial attacks that ignited the latest conflict on 7 October.
The Czech trio of Moto Racing Group—Dušan Drdaj, Martin Prokeš, and Jaromír Romančík—completed the Rallye du Maroc to all earn invites to the 2024 Dakar Rally.
After ERTF’s digital roadbook glitched at the Rallye du Maroc, Dakar Rally director David Castera is reassuring amateur riders that any issues will be rectified for 2024 as the transition from paper continues.
Julien Dalbec finished twenty-sixth in Rally2 in his World Rally-Raid Championship début at the Rallye du Maroc, convincing the ASO to overturn their rejection of his 2024 Dakar Rally application.
Despite crashing out of the Rallye du Maroc, Gioele Meoni will follow in his late father Fabrizio’s footsteps and compete in the Dakar Rally in 2024.
Hero MotoSports has become Monster Energy Hero Team Rally for the 2024 Dakar Rally and World Rally-Raid Championship. They are Monster’s second RallyGP factory team alongside Honda.
Mathieu Feuvrier is now two-for-two in completing the Rallye du Maroc, giving him all the momentum in the world as he pursues his Dakar Rally début in 2025.
After being confined in Russia since COVID-19, the Silk Way Rally plans to expand its route back into Mongolia and China for the 2024 race.
SKARLAT-XTRM Team, led by Vadim Pritulyak and Ukrainian war veteran Sergey Romanovsky, set the fastest time in the ParaBaja category at last week’s Rallye TT Cuenca. Fellow soldier Olexandr Gonzul raced a Toyota.
Bruno Leblanc was initially rejected for the 2024 Dakar Rally due to lack of experience, but a 31st in class at the Rallye du Maroc changed the ASO’s mind and he will now take part.
A week after completing the World Rally-Raid Championship, Krzysztof Hołowczyc and Pau Navarro iced the FIA European Cup for Cross-Country Bajas