After a successful first foray into SSVs by winning as a co-driver, W2RC Quad champion Manuel Andújar will now sit in the driver’s seat at the Rally Raid San Rafael in September.
After seven tries, Toyota Gazoo Racing Thailand is finally an Asia Cross Country Rally winner as Mana Pornsiricherd led the way in his Toyota Hilux Revo.
Former Quad rider Juraj Varga made his début as the driver of a side-by-side at last weekend’s Hungarian Baja. Although new to the vehicle and he wasn’t classified, he feels he’s getting comfortable the more he runs.
Buggyra boss Martin Koloc’s cross-country début ended early after he withdrew from the Hungarian Baja, feeling navigation was too dangerous amidst dust and getting lost on the Bakony military training range.
Hoping to expand their factory presence in South America, Fantic has signed Tomás de Gavardo to their rally raid programme. He will make his début at the Rallye du Maroc before racing the Dakar Dakar Rally.
While not classified in the FIA results as it is an Experimental car, M-Sport’s new Ford Raptor T1+ is technically already a race winner after being the fastest at the Hungarian Baja.
FIM mandating FRHPhe-02 helmets starting 2026
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The 2025 Dakar Rally and off-road season will be the last before the FIM requires all bike and quad riders to switch to the newly homologated FRHPhe-02 helmet.
With Aliyyah Koloc recovering from surgery, her father Martin will run a race for the first time in over two decades when he enters the Hungarian Baja in her Red-Lined REVO T1+.
Balázs Molnár will bring the new Can-Am Maverick R to this weekend’s Hungarian Baja. Although not competing in the FIA European Baja Cup, his team made various adjustments so it meets FIA regulation.
From Nasser Al-Attiyah and Luc Alphand to Albert II of Monaco and Adam Małysz, there is quite a pool of people who have both raced the Dakar Rally (or rally raids in general) and competed in the Olympic Games.
Nikita Mazepin, T3 winner of the 2022 Silk Way Rally, finished 2nd in his first rally raid of the year and fourth overall at the Denis Davydov Baja.
After being disqualified while leading the Dakar Rally, Eryk Goczał returned with a vengeance as he held off Ghislain de Mévius and Nasser Al-Attiyah for the Baja España Aragón Challenger win.
2× Dakar Rally winner and the inaugural World Rally-Raid Champion for bikes Sam Sunderland is calling it a career.
With M-Sport’s new Ford Raptor T1+ not set to race until August, Nani Roma will drive its predecessor Ford Ranger at the Baja Aragón in place of the injured Daniel Alonso.
Yasir Seaidan will race a Taurus T3 Max prepared by Nasser Al-Attiyah’s team at this weekend’s Baja Aragón.
Roslyn Shen will race a Suzuki Jimny Sierra built by the Chuoh Technical School at the 2024 Asia Cross Country Rally. The automotive university last built the 2023 AXCR-winning Toyota Fortuner of Takuma Aoki.
The Hungarian Baja, part of both the FIA European and FIM World Baja Cups, mainly takes place at Bakony Combat Training Centre, the largest army shooting range in Central Europe.
