Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa will field a trio of Hiluxes at the 2024 Dakar Rally for Giniel de Villiers plus Dakar newcomers Guy Botterill and Sa’ood Variawa. Henk Lategan will miss the race due to injury.
ALL1 Dakar, a team of best friends from Spain led by Carlos Llibre, will compete at the 2024 Dakar Rally together on bikes in the Rally2 class.
Former Extreme E driver and Spanish Cross-Country regular Christine GZ will compete at the Dakar Rally for the first time in 2024, driving in the SSV class.
Feeling she has not fully recovered from her pulmonary embolism, Kirsten Landman will not run the Dakar Rally in 2024.
World Rally-Raid T3 Champion Seth Quintero will move up to the top class in 2024, joining Toyota Gazoo Racing. Lucas Moraes will team up with him.
After testing a Mini JCW Rally Plus at the W2RC Next Gen Tryouts, Pau Navarro will race one for real in the 2024 Dakar Rally.
Fantic Rally Team’s trio of enduro champions Jane Daniels, Jeremy Miroir, and Tommaso Montanari will race the Dakar Rally in 2024. Daniels and Miroir are making their Dakar débuts.
Despite plans of racing in 2024, brothers and 5× Dakar Rally Quad winners riders Alejandro and Marcos Patronelli will delay their return due to funding concerns amid the ongoing Argentine election.
Kove Moto has upgraded the Kove 450 Rally for the 2024 Dakar Rally, designed to be lighter to improve performance.
Lucas del Río will not race the Dakar Rally in 2024 for last-minute personal reasons, per his co-driver Bruno Jacomy. Jacomy is now seeking an open driver for the race.
Due to a recent battle with COVID-19 that she is still recovering from, Mirjam Pol will have to skip the Dakar Rally in 2024.
Joan Barreda will race for a manufacturer that isn’t Honda at the Dakar Rally for the first time in over a decade as he moves to Hero for the 2024 edition.
The Czech trio of Moto Racing Group—Dušan Drdaj, Martin Prokeš, and Jaromír Romančík—completed the Rallye du Maroc to all earn invites to the 2024 Dakar Rally.
After ERTF’s digital roadbook glitched at the Rallye du Maroc, Dakar Rally director David Castera is reassuring amateur riders that any issues will be rectified for 2024 as the transition from paper continues.
Julien Dalbec finished twenty-sixth in Rally2 in his World Rally-Raid Championship début at the Rallye du Maroc, convincing the ASO to overturn their rejection of his 2024 Dakar Rally application.
Despite crashing out of the Rallye du Maroc, Gioele Meoni will follow in his late father Fabrizio’s footsteps and compete in the Dakar Rally in 2024.
Hero MotoSports has become Monster Energy Hero Team Rally for the 2024 Dakar Rally and World Rally-Raid Championship. They are Monster’s second RallyGP factory team alongside Honda.
