Want to run the 2024 Dakar Rally? Showcase yourself at the 2023 Road to Dakar races: Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, Sonora Rally, TGRSA 1000 Desert Race, Desafío Ruta 40, and Rallye du Maroc.
Now recovered from his hand injury, Yasir Seaidan will pursue the 2023 World Rally-Raid Championship in T4. He finished runner-up in the 2021 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Bajas.
In celebration of winning the Rallye du Maroc and Sonora Rally and racing the Dakar Rally, Skyler Howes’ hometown St. George, Utah, has declared 4 November 2022 to be Skyler Howes Day.
Nasser Al-Attiyah, Francisco López Contardo, Rokas Baciuška, Sam Sunderland, Amine Eciguer, and Alexandre Giroud secured their respective World Rally-Raid Championships in Andalucía.
Drama filled Andalucía Rally Stage 3 as W2RC T4 points leader Marek Goczał crashed, Cristina Gutiérrez’s T3 title hopes are all but dashed, and Nasser Al-Attiyah loses the T1 lead to Sébastien Loeb.
The FIM Sand Races World Cup, sanctioned by the Cross-Country Commission, will kick off its inaugural season in 2023 with three rounds.
Inclement weather grounded safety helicopters, preventing Stage 2 of the Andalucía Rally from taking place and ruining a chance to see what was touted as a “WRC-style” leg.
2022 Andalucia Rally: "Complicated" Stage 1B ends with Al-Attiyah T1 win, glitches plague Hunters
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The World Rally-Raid Championship T1 battle between Nasser Al-Attiyah and Sébastien Loeb swung back in the former’s favour as he led Stage 1B of the Andalucía Rally while Loeb battled technical issues.
Seeking to make up lost ground in the W2RC T1 class title battle that he lost in Morocco, Sébastien Loeb topped the category in the Andalucía Rally qualifying stage.
The World Rally-Raid Championship will visit the Americas for the first time in 2023 with the Sonora Rally in Mexico and the Desafío Ruta 40 in Argentina.
Toby Price took a hard lick during Stage 4 of the Rallye du Maroc that resulted in a right wrist injury and two hits to the head, ending his race. Still, he is in high spirits as the Baja 1000 looms.
The final round of the 2022 World Rally-Raid Championship comes down to the Andalucía Rally on 18–23 October.
Mason Klein has 28 points on Romain Dumontier for the Rally2 title entering the World Rally-Raid Championship season finale in Andalucía; with the winner only getting 25 points, Klein is the first FIM W2RC class champion.
Kees Koolen held off Martin Macík Jr. by 26 points to win the T5 category title. He is the first overall FIA class champion under the World Rally-Raid Championship banner.
Gerard Farrés will run the Dakar Rally for the sixteenth time in 2023. Driving for South Racing Can-Am again with Diego Ortega Gil, he will use the Andalucía Rally as a rehearsal.
2022 Rallye du Maroc: Winners include Chicherit in Hunter debut, Quintero as youngest in race history
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In his maiden rally with the Prodrive Hunter, Guerlain Chicherit took the T1 overall while Nasser Al-Attiyah claimed the T1 World Rally-Raid Championship lead from Sébastien Loeb.
Yazeed Al-Rajhi beat overall leader Guerlain Chicherit for the Rallye du Maroc Stage 4 T1 win by less than two minutes, while Sébastien Loeb’s W2RC T1 title hopes took a blow after retiring.
