Tobias Ebster, who clinched a spot in the 2024 Dakar Rally by winning the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge’s Rally2 class, will compete in the W2RC season-ending Rallye du Maroc.
Hoping to fulfill his Dakar Rally dream in 2025, French motocross rider and Doctor of Sports Science Romain Bouzigon will enter the Rallye du Maroc in October.
Alexander Gonsul, who lost his left arm and right leg fighting for Ukraine’s Territorial Defence Forces in Dementiivka last year, will be Ivan Barbero’s co-driver at the Rallye TT Cuenca.
Captain Sergey Romanovsky, a Ukrainian paratrooper who lost his right leg in combat in 2014, will serve as Vadim Pritulyak’s co-driver for the Rallye TT Cuenca in Spain.
Xavier Flick will return to two-wheeled rally raid at the Rallye du Maroc as he becomes a factory rider for Kove Moto. He will also race the 2024 Dakar Rally for the Chinese marque.
The Volkswagen Amarok, traditionally a T1 pickup truck, now exists as a Light Prototype SSV capable of racing in the T3 category thanks to Portuguese Rally-Raid Championship driver Nuno Matos.
Taking up the RFEDA’s offer, former Dakar Rally rider Vadim Pritulyak will bring two SKARLAT buggies to race at the Rally TT Cuenca with injured Ukrainian soldiers as navigators.
While they did not run the Desafío Ruta 40, Rokas Baciuška and co-driver Oriol Vidal are far enough in the T4 standings to clinch their second World Rally-Raid Championship.
After a disappointing Desafío Ruta 40, Sebastián Halpern has elected to skip the Rallye du Maroc and 2024 Dakar Rally.
Didn’t follow the 2023 Desafío Ruta 40? The Checkered Flag’s got you covered.
By winning the Desafío Ruta 40’s Road to Dakar in UTV and Moto, Juan José Semino and Juan Santiago Rostan have earned free registration for the 2024 (or 2025) Dakar Rally.
Jeremías Gonzalez Ferioli and Rodrigo Sallum led an attrition-heavy scramble among the non-FIA/FIM competitors at the Desafío Ruta 40.
Manuel Andújar and Francisco Moreno went toe to toe in the Desafío Ruta 40’s Quad category, with the former coming out on top.
Ahead of his maiden Dakar Rally in 2024, Ardit Kurtaj is making the most of his journey there by winning the Rally3 class at the Desafío Ruta 40 to take the W2RC class points lead.
Michael Docherty and Bradley Cox were the stars of the Rally2 show at the Desafío Ruta 40, but Docherty’s Stage 2 retirement was the difference maker.
All three of Gustavo Gallego’s T4 rivals suffered at least one stage retirement or major mechanical issue, while he stayed consistent to win the Desafío Ruta 40 on home soil.
As Seth Quintero and Mattias Ekström’s Can-Ams suffered mechanical failures, Mitch Guthrie’s T3M cruised to the Desafío Ruta 40 victory in the T3 class. He now leads Austin Jones by 3 points in the W2RC.
