To match up with the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Bajas, the FIM Bajas World Cup will move the Dubai International Baja by a day back from 9–11 November.
A T3 Light Prototype car developed by Nicolás Etchamendi, which received FIA approval in the spring, will race for the first time at the Desafío Ruta 40.
Siarhei Viazovich held off a KAMAZ-master onslaught to score MAZ-SPORTauto’s first Silk Way Rally victory. It is only the second time KAMAZ failed to win the race.
Jeremías Pascual, who finished 2nd in the South American Rally Race, hopes to run the Dakar Rally in 2024. To get there, he aims to qualify via the Desafío Ruta 40.
The Desafío Ruta 40 will be sponsored by Argentinian gas company YPF, dubbing it the Desafío Ruta 40 YPF. The race week will also have the amateur navigation-based Desafío Ansenuza.
Alpine reinforces its motorsports ambitions with the appointment of Bruno Famin as VP, leading Alpine’s racing activities across various disciplines.
Carlos Llibre’s 2024 Dakar Rally pursuit, in his brother’s memory, will take him and the seven-man ALL1 Dakar team to Argentina for the Desafío Ruta 40 in August.
Rokas Baciuška, the current World Rally-Raid T4 leader, will race a Toyota Hilux T1+ at the Baja España Aragón for Overdrive Racing.
20-year-old Matías Innocente, a Dakar Rally aspirant following in his family’s footsteps, will race the Desafío Ruta 40 on a quad.
Diego Blas, who won the T3.2 class in the South American Rally Race, will race a Can-Am for GM Motorsport in the Desafío Ruta 40.
After finishing third in his Dakar Rally début, Lucas Moraes will fly Toyota Gazoo Racing Brasil’s colours starting with the upcoming Baja Aragón.
The M-Sport/NWM Ford Ranger T1+, fresh off a comprehensive testing period, will be a two-truck team for the Baja España Aragón and 2024 Dakar Rally as Nani Roma and Gareth Woolridge spearhead the effort.
Spanish Enduro legend Jaume Betriu, who raced the Dakar Rally solo in 2020 and 2021, will ride shotgun to Eduard Pons as his co-driver starting with the Baja Aragón.
In one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory, the FIA’s Cross-Country Commission is investigating Italian Baja Clerk of the Course Marco Fiorillo after mysteriously changing the race start order between stages without good reason.
Martín Franco, who finished second in the 2022 CaNav M2 championship, will enter the Desafio Ruta 40 on his home turf.
Planned FIA regulations for 2024 W2RC include dropping Prologue from overall, no T5 championship
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For the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship, the FIA will further balance T1 classes, give more benefits to T3 and T4 champs, and end the T5 championship for trucks.
After bringing the World Rally-Raid Championship to the Americas for the first time in April, the Sonora Rally will revert to being an independent event in 2024.
