With Sébastien Loeb’s retirement, Nasser Al-Attiyah turned the tables on him to pull ahead in the World Rally-Raid Championship with his Sonora Rally triumph.
Mattias Ekström hoped to break up the Red Bull dominance in T3, but came six minutes shy as Mitch Guthrie took his first World Rally-Raid overall win.
Rokas Baciuška won every stage including the Prologue to extend his World Rally-Raid T4 Championship lead.
Massimo Camurri won nearly every stage in Rally3 en route to the Sonora Rally triumph.
Although skipping Abu Dhabi, Romain Dumontier remains two-for-two in World Rally-Raid starts in 2023 having won the Dakar Rally and sweeping the Sonora Rally.
After missing Abu Dhabi due to injury, Daniel Sanders did not miss a beat in Sonora as he can now call himself a World Rally-Raid Championship race winner.
Laisvydas Kancius battled with Rodolfo Guillioli for the Quad win at the Sonora Rally and came out on top.
The decision to run the Sonora Rally was last minute, but it was more than worth it for Brendan Crow as he won the National Enduro class.
In finishing second overall among National Moto entries at the Sonora Rally, Francisco Alvarez is heading to the 2024 Dakar Rally.
Sara Price will make her Dakar Rally début in 2024 after winning three stages in the Sonora Rally’s National Car/UTV class.
Matt Sutherland will race the Sonora Rally and Mexican 1000 back-to-back on his own, and he got the first out of the way with a blazing performance in National Malle Moto.
Rokas Baciuška and Romain Dumontier closed out the Sonora Rally by winning every stage including the last, while David ZIlle and Ardit Kurtaj played spoiler with their first stage wins.
The roadbook for Stage #4 of the Sonora Rally accidentally sent riders in the wrong direction, while Nasser Al-Attiyah has the FIA win all but locked up pending the fifth and final leg.
FIA overall leader Sébastien Loeb’s Sonora Rally ended with a crash in Stage 3, while Daniel Sanders bolstered his FIM lead on two wheels.
All 4 Prodrive Hunters finished in the top 5 in Stage 2 of the Sonora Rally led by Sébastien Loeb, with brothers Marcos and Cristian Baumgart, and Guerlain Chicherit in tow.
Tosha Schareina, in his first race with Honda, is already a World Rally-Raid stage winner after holding off Daniel Sanders and ally Pablo Quintanilla for the Sonora RallyGP win.
Yazeed Al-Rajhi set the best time among the FIA entrants in the Sonora Rally Prologue stage, while the Rally2 of Bradley Cox beat the RallyGP bikes.
