Antanas Kanopkinas battled with Kamil Wiśniewski throughout the Rallye du Maroc, and the former seized on a last-day mechanical failure to score CFMOTO Thunder Racing Team’s first World Rally-Raid Championship race win.
2024 Rallye du Maroc: Souleymane Addahri wins Rally3 on home soil, John Medina ices title
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After finishing third in 2023, Morocco’s Souleymane Addahri topped the Rallye du Maroc in Rally3 while John Medina secured the World Rally-Raid Championship by simply starting the race.
With team-mate Akira Miura competing in the Open class, Ronald Basso was all by himself in the Stock category. It is the first time in World Rally-Raid Championship history that a sanctioned class (excluding Open) had just one vehicle.
The Challenger class at all five stages of the Rallye du Maroc, including the Prologue, was won by a Taurus T3 Max. By the end, Eryk Goczał was leading a 1–2–3–4–5 for Tauruses.
Although the only rider to run every round of the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship and he did not win any of them, Ross Branch’s consistency helped him hold off a Honda onslaught and win the title in the premier bike category.
In the very first race for the Dacia Sandrider, Nasser Al-Attiyah was dominant as he secured his third World Rally-Raid Championship in as many years.
The 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship officially came to a close Friday with the fifth and final leg of the Rallye du Maroc.
Jean-Loup Lepan had a hard fall during Stage 2 of the Rallye du Maroc, resulting in multiple fractures and haemopneumothorax that required intensive care. He was brought home to France on Friday.
For the second year in a row, the FIA has punished EnergyLandia Taurus Factory Team for an environmental infraction. In this case, two team members were spotted dumping waste water into the desert, netting the team a €15,000 fine.
As Dakar Rally winners Harith Noah and Tobias Ebster led the way on Thursday, Romain Dumontier’s hopes of back-to-back World Raid-Raid Championships in Rally2 grow slimmer.
With Nicolás Cavigliasso missing out on stage points in a crucial Stage 3, Rokas Baciuška has secured the World Rally-Raid Championship in the Challenger category. He is the first person to win a W2RC title in two different classes.
Manuel Andújar was the first car on the scene to attend to Frédéric Baudry after his ultimately fatal accident in Stage #1. On Tuesday, the FIA confirmed the W2RC Quad champion would get 20:09 removed from his time for coming to his aid.
João Ferreira’s SS1 time has been reduced from 3:27:16 to 2:19:52 after a hearing with FIA stewards confirmed he was the victim of two major navigation device malfunctions that dropped him to 33rd in Ultimate.
After briefly leading Stage #2, Mathieu Serradori returned to find he has been disqualified by the FIA for underweight wheel rims and using beadlocks on them.
Taurus T3 Max cars finished 1–2–3–4–5–6–7–8 in Challenger during Tuesday’s stage in Morocco, including a podium sweep by the EnergyLandia Taurus Factory Team courtesy of Michał Goczał, his nephew Eryk, and brother Marek.
Tragedy befell the World Rally-Raid Championship for the second time in 2024 when Rally2 rider Frédéric Baudry died from injuries sustained in a fall on Monday. He was 46.
Ricky Brabec’s crash in Stage #1 has effectively clinched Ross Branch his maiden World Rally-Raid Championship in the RallyGP category (barring Branch doesn’t retire as well).
