Due to severe flooding that bogged down Rallye du Maroc competitors heading to the next bivouac in Zagora, race officials have opted to swap the courses for Stages #1 and #2. The “new” Stage #1 will also be reduced from 317 kilometres to 180 km.
Sébastien Loeb’s début stage with Dacia was overshadowed by a broken right suspension arm and his Sandrider in a ditch. At least the Prologue doesn’t count towards the overall.
With Oriol Mena attending to a family matter, Eryk Goczał has enlisted Álex Haro as his navigator for the Rallye du Maroc. Meanwhile, Martin Koloc will be joined by Mirko Brun instead due to medical concerns for David Schovánek.
On Tuesday, the FIM Jury plans to meet with World Rally-Raid Championship teams to discuss creating a title for teams, separate from the current manufacturers’ championship.
After four years of leading the OT3 programme, G Rally Team will début the new G-ECKO Challenger car at the 2025 Dakar Rally.
The 2025 FIA World Baja Cup will span eight races, while the European Baja Cup has nine and the Middle East Baja Cup continues with its four-round calendar.
Due to his wife Erica’s medical concerns, Gerrit Zuurmond has withdrawn from the Rallye du Maroc. In his place, his co-driver Tjeerd van Ballegooij will make his World Rally-Raid Championship driving début in the Rainbow MAN.
Season Four of the World Rally-Raid Championship will retain the Dakar Rally, Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, BP Ultimate Rally-Raid Portugal, and Rallye du Maroc, while replacing the Desafío Ruta 40 with the new South African Safari Rally.
Due to a critical issue in the driveline’s secondary cooling system, an issue that cannot be rectified on site in Morocco, Aleš Loprais and Team de Rooy will not race the Rallye du Maroc.
Eight years after racing the Dakar Rally for the last time, 2013 FIA T1.1 champion Nunzio Coffaro is back as the navigator for Andrea Schiumarini in Morocco with plans of doing the 2025 Dakar afterwards.
Argentine enduro rider Carla Scaglioni will race a Fantic at the Rallye du Maroc next week in her first career cross-country rally.
2022 World Rally-Raid Champion in the Rally3 class Amine Echiguer will not run his home W2RC race due to injury he sustained earlier in the year.
2024 Rallye du Maroc: "All the main tracks, which used to be visible, have disappeared" – Isidre Esteve
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After the catastrophic flooding that hit Morocco in September, Isidre Esteve was quick to notice the impact it had on the dry lake beds and dunes that next week’s Rallye du Maroc will be crossing.
The Rallye du Maroc will be a family affair for the Koloc family when Martin Koloc races a REVO+ GT-R in the Open class while his daughter Aliyyah Koloc returns to the REVO T1+ in Ultimate.
Alexander Chepurkó, the 2023 World Rally-Raid Championship runner-up in the Rally2 category, was in Israel when Iran launched its attack on Tuesday and witnessed the air defence systems at work.
With only enough budget for the 2025 Dakar Rally, Guillaume Chollet will play it safe by not entering the upcoming Rallye du Maroc so he can invest it into January’s race.
Fausto Mota, usually the co-driver for SSV driver Ricardo Ramilo, will slide into the Challenger car of Rokas Baciuška as his navigator in Morocco while Oriol Vidal continues to recover from his back injury.
