Due to FIA regulations, Rainbow Truck Team had to modify their MAN TGA ahead of Morocco by moving their fuel tank. This triggered quite a chain reaction that culminated in a redesigned rear end.
Guillaume de Mévius and Guerlain Chicherit surprised the rally world when they opted to leave Overdrive Racing for X-raid Team, but with the unveil of the new Mini JCW Rally 3.0i, they think it’ll give them their best chances at winning.
Like many teams, Buggyra ZM Racing will use the Rallye du Maroc as a dress rehearsal for the 2025 Dakar Rally. Martin Šoltys and Karel Poslední will respectievly drive a Tatra Buggyra EVO3 and Tatra Phoenix.
Continuing his trend of naming his trucks, Martin Macík Jr.’s 2025 Dakar Rally challenger has been dubbed Benny the Big Guy (or Bohouš in Czech). It will make its début at the Rallye du Maroc.
Despite historic and deadly flooding, race director David Castéra is confident that his team will adjust accordingly in the 2 weeks before the Rallye du Maroc, as they did during COVID and last year’s earthquake.
126 FIA entries (43 Ultimate, 39 Challenger, 36 SSV, 1 Stock, 7 Truck), 136 FIM (12 RallyGP, 112 Rally2, 8 Rally3, 4 Quad), and 9 Open cars make up the grid for the final race of the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship.
Ndoki Racing Team, based in the capital city of Kinshasa, will be the first team from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to compete in the World Rally-Raid Championship, doing so in partnership with Belgian team BRT. They will field a Can-Am Maverick for Belgians racers Michaël Devos and Xavier Hottelet.
Among GRallyTeam’s four teams for the Rallye du Maroc are a pair of former FIM Dakar Rally winners as 2× Quad winner Alexandre Giroud will race an OT3 as a driver while 2023 Malle Moto victor Charan Moore is the navigator of another driven by Puck Klaassen.
Breaking away from diesel engines, the new Mini John Cooper Works Rally 3.0i will use a 6-cylinder in-line petrol motor that produces 263 kW of power and 570 Nm of torque.
In a survey conducted following the Baja Greece in May, most competitors want it on both the FIA World and European Baja Cup calendars over one or the other, while also preferring the Selective Sections to either be shorter or are happy with the final length.
Christian Lavieille, a veteran of the premier classes, will hop into a side-by-side in Morocco when he drives the new Can-Am Maverick R prepared by BTR.
Now retired from the Dakar Rally, Erik Van Loon will race the Dakar Classic for the first time in 2025 in an Audi S1. Before that, he will test his new ride in Morocco, then take over South Racing’s new Can-Am Maverick R at the Rallye du Maroc.
In a surprise development, Guillaume de Mévius has left Overdrive Racing and signed with X-raid Team to drive a Mini JCW Rally Plus, Overdrive boss Jean-Marc Fortin told Auto Hebdo.
Eight months after winning the Dakar Classic, Carlos Santaolalla and Jan Rosa’s Toyota Land Cruiser HDJ80 added another vintage rally raid trophy in Morocco when they won the RallyClassics Africa.
With a victory at the Baja TT Sharish Gin, João Ferreira bolstered his edge over Fernando Miguel Barreiros and João Dias in the FIA European Baja Cup with one race to go while passing Dias for the Portuguese Cross-Country Championship lead.
Oriol Vidal’s quest to win the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship Challenger co-drivers’ title as Rokas Baciuška’s navigator has come to an abrupt end.
Before heading to Morocco to close out the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship, Tosha Schareina and Honda locked up the FIM E-Xplorer World Cup in Switzerland in their début season.
