After finishing 10th in 2023, Masanao Nitta’s Toyota Hilux will once again be the only vehicle in the Asia Cross Country Rally with bodywork made from natural fibres at the 2024 edition.
Rallye Breslau, the largest amateur rally raid in Europe, celebrated 30 years with a brutal slog through the Żagań and Drawsko military training areas in Poland.
World Rally-Raid Quad Champion Manuel Andújar is already a race winner in a side-by-side on his first try as he navigated Juan Cruz Yacopini to the Rally Raid San Juan victory.
With Quads heading out the Dakar door, Juraj Varga is the latest rider to make the switch to an FIA category by racing in SSV.
As his Quad career ends with a World Rally-Raid Championship, Manuel Andújar will begin his new life in the SSV category as Juan Cruz Yacopini’s partner in CaNav Rally Raid’s Rally Raid San Juan.
For the 3rd straight year, Toyota Gazoo Racing will bring their Toyota Hilux T1+ to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, doing the hillclimb, rally stage, and off-road arena with Seth Quintero and Lucas Moraes.
After 7 tries, Henk Lategan finally has the South African Rally-Raid Championship’s crown jewel under his belt in Waterberg. Meanwhile, Wors Prinsloo punched his ticket to the 2025 Dakar Rally.
While Chaleco López might be one of the best rally raiders in a Can-Am Maverick these days, he was back on a motorcycle for the Desafío del Desierto where he and Jeremías Israel finished 2nd in class.
Dakar Rally legend Stéphane Peterhansel was back on two wheels in Sardinia and did not miss a beat as he finished third in the 40-year celebration of the first rally raid on the island.
Kevin Benavides: "I'm going to recover, I'm going to come back and keep giving my best day by day"
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Going public about his crash in May, Kevin Benavides said he doesn’t remember much from it as he suffered a diffuse axonal injury and broke his humerus, elbow, and cervical spine, among others.
An accident between a Dakar Rally veteran and a family friend of Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán forced the rest of the Baja Satu Mare in Romania to be cancelled after three stages.
A month before the 2024 Silk Way Rally kicks off, the race’s organisers have been placed under sanction by the United States due to its use as a front for Russia’s military intelligence operations.
Laisvydas Kancius, the 2023 World Rally-Raid Champion in Quads, is the latest rider to switch to an FIA class as he will call the shots for Gintas Petrus at the Rallye du Maroc and 2025 Dakar Rally.
Starting 2025, the World Rally-Raid Championship will have a Power Selective Section akin to WRC Power Stages. The FIA will also allow teams to pick permanent numbers, among other newly approved changes.
The 2024 Rallye du Maroc will span 2,492 kilometres, 1,517 of which are timed Selective Sections, beginning in Marrakesh and running through Zagora before ending in Mengoub.
Missed the Desafío Ruta 40 from Argentina? The Checkered Flag has you covered.
Yazeed Al-Rajhi and Nasser Al-Attiyah’s duel in Argentina came down to the final day, and the Saudi ultimately came out on top.
