João Ferreira, now at South Racing Can-Am for the 2024 Dakar Rally and World Rally-Raid Championship, sat down with The Checkered Flag to discuss his new home and upcoming T4 title pursuit.
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The MD Optimus EVO 5, MD Rallye Sport’s newest T1 challenger, will make its début at this week’s Rallye du Maroc with Simon Vitse.
Century Racing has unveiled the CR7 T1+ car that will enter this weekend’s South African Rally-Raid Championship round Renergon 400 before tackling the Dakar Rally.
Toby Price will continue with Red Bull KTM Factory Racing for the 2024 Dakar Rally and World Rally-Raid Championship.
102 teams make up the five FIA classes—36 in T1, 37 in T3, 19 in T4, 10 in T5—for the Rallye du Maroc while 9 do so for the Open entries.
16 RallyGP, a whopping 97 Rally2, 13 Rally3, and 10 Quad riders form the 136 FIM bike entries for the Rallye du Maroc.
T3 driver Guillaume de Mévius will move up to T1 for the first time at the Rallye du Maroc when he races a Toyota Hilux T1+ from Overdrive Racing.
Guillaume de Mevius: "We should push T3 a bit more, but we also need to find a solution for T1"
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While T1+ is the top rally raid class, Guillaume de Mévius feels the gap between it and the lower T3 should be narrowed so that younger drivers in the latter can better hone their skills before moving up.
Guillaume de Mévius is happy with the FIA European Cup for Cross-Country Bajas, but he’d like to see wrinkles like trophies by age group and enticing drivers to run the full season.
After racing a Yamaha in his Dakar Rally debut, Fabien Domas will compete in the 2024 edition as well as October’s Rallye du Maroc on a GasGas RX 450F.
While T1 is for prototype cross-country rally cars, T1.1 driver Nuno Madeira feels his specific class has not gotten the respect it deserves as the FIA focuses on the higher T1+ subcategory.
One of KAMAZ-master’s race trucks narrowly avoided an accident on the way to the Russian Rally-Raid Championship’s Baja Sibirskiy Trakt.
After last racing it in 2021, Samuel Fremy will return to the Rallye du Maroc in October. He ran his first and only Dakar Rally in 2022.
After departing Husqvarna in June, Skyler Howes will be the fifth Monster Energy Honda factory rider.
Following the devasating earthquake that devastated Morocco, the Rallye du Maroc will continued as planned but will also organise relief campaigns.
French motocross and enduro rider Marshall Méplon will make his World Rally-Raid Championship début at the Rallye du Maroc in October.
