The FIA’s rulebook for the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship and Baja Cups were finalised last week, with other major changes including permitting the use of rubber for tyre repair and updated time intervals for EoT.
After a successful début in Spain, SKARLAT-XTRM Team hopes to run the 2024 FIA World Baja Cup and other European rallies with more wounded Ukrainian troops while also bussing veterans out to races.
Guerlain Chicherit and Guillaume de Mévius will become stuntmen/bounty hunters for the 2024 Dakar Rally onwards as they design their Toyota Hiluxes after Colt Seavers’ GMC in The Fall Guy.
The Yamaha Desert Challenge, created by Yamaha Motor Europe on the heels of their successful YXZ1000R spec rally raid series, will run alongside the Carta Rallye in 2024.
It was an inevitability when he joined Prodrive for 2024 and is now a reality: two-time World Rally-Raid Champion Nasser Al-Attiyah will race for Dacia starting in 2025.
Although he broke his elbow at the Rallye du Maroc, which will prevent him from running the 2024 Dakar Rally, Julien Jagu feels the wreck has shaped him for the better as he continues to heal up.
The top 3 in the World Rally-Raid Championship, led by Nasser Al-Attiyah, along with other 2023 cross-country champs were celebrated at the FIA Prize Giving Ceremony in Baku.
After running two rounds of the 2023 World Rally-Raid Championship, CFMOTO Thunder Racing Team will elevate to four of five in 2024 including their maiden Dakar Rally.
As the World Rally-Raid Champion for RallyGP, Luciano Benavides was among 58 champions honoured at the 2023 FIM Awards in Liverpool this past weekend.
Wei Han and HanWei Motorsport Team will move up from T1.2 as part of a deal with T1.1 team Red-Lined Motorsport to create a new T1+ car, which they will début at the 2024 Dakar Rally.
The 2024 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge will introduce a second bivouac in Liwa alongside the usual in Al Dhannah. The race will span 2,250 kilometres with 1,450 in Selective Sections
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.
