El Cóndor–Copina, one of the most iconic stages of the World Rally Championship, roared back to life Sunday for the World Rally-Raid Championship.
Kove Moto, led by Neels Theric, won nearly every bike stage at their home country’s Taklimakan Rally. On the 4-wheel side, Wei Han’s Red-Lined was one of the many T1+ cars that shined.
Jerome Roussel: FIA interested in South American Baja Cup, updating Stock and SSV regulations
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Could South America have its own FIA Baja Cup? Is there a way to make SSV and Stock racing more affordable yet competitive? FIA cross-country rally category manager Jérôme Roussel is open to it.
To celebrate their ten-year anniversary, Rainbow Truck Team will enter the Africa Eco Race in 2025. In preparation, they will race the Rallye du Maroc in October.
Oriol Vidal will not race in Argentina due to a back injury that has been nagging him since the Dakar Rally. Sébastien Delaunay wil fill in as the navigator for Rokas Baciuška.
The Desafío Ruta 40 will now be 1,792 kilometres long in Selective Sections, as opposed to the original 2,085, with 1,275 km in road sections and 164 km in transfer zones.
Despite a transmission problem that sank him to a last-place finish in class, former Moto2 rider Carlos Tatay was pleased with how his first cross-country rally went at the Baja Lorca.
Eduard Pons topped the Baja Greece outright for his first cross-country win, while Land Cruiser-turned-Hilux driver Akira Miura clinched the Ultimate victory in his category début.
29 FIA cars, 54 FIM bikes,17 Open vehicles, and 15 Desafío Ansenuza entries comrpise the grid for the Desafío Ruta 40 YPF INFINIA.
Due to “safety reasons” reportedly pertaining to the border, the Asia Cross Country Rally will remain exclusively in Thailand for 2024 instead of crossing into Malaysia as planned.
With the death of the Quad class for the 2025 Dakar Rally, defending winner Manuel Andújar will not take part in another category, though he is interested in racing an SSV in the future.
Gert Duson: 2024 Morocco Desert Challenge "a total difference from last year's unfortunate edition"
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After the 2023 Morocco Desert Challenge was marred by tragedy, a swath of safety requirements for the 2024 edition proved to be the right call, and director Gert Duson couldn’t have asked for anything else.
The top Latin American rider at the Desafío Ruta 40 will be crowned the inaugural Ibero-American Cross Country Rally Champion.
Akira Miura will trade in his Toyota Land Cruiser for a Toyota Hilux as he enters the Baja Greece and Dubai International Baja for Overdrive Racing.
While the Can-Am Maverick R is tearing it up in America, it won’t be approved for the World Rally-Raid Championship until 2025. In the meantime, it’s been more than fast in regional cross-country rallies.
After racing Estonia’s only rally raid, co-driver Andrei Rudnitski is receptive to the idea of a cross-country rally series in the Baltics alongside Latvia and burgeoning rally hotbed Lithuania.
Vasily Glukhov and Andrey Ryaboshkapov completed the Russian Rally-Raid Championship’s Baja Kagan’s Gold on the GR500, a 500cc adventure bike not exactly designed for cross-country rally.
