Gioele Meoni accepted for 2024 Dakar Rally
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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.
Mathieu Feuvrier is now two-for-two in completing the Rallye du Maroc, giving him all the momentum in the world as he pursues his Dakar Rally début in 2025.
Bruno Leblanc was initially rejected for the 2024 Dakar Rally due to lack of experience, but a 31st in class at the Rallye du Maroc changed the ASO’s mind and he will now take part.
Nasser Al-Attiyah will begin the next chapter of his legendary rally raid career with Prodrive starting at this week’s Baja Portalegre 500.
After his 2023 World Rally-Raid Championship RallyGP rookie season was cut short by a lack of funding, Mason Klein is seeking a ride for 2024, though it is easier said than done.
After skipping 2023, Andrea Schiumarini will make his return to the Dakar Rally in 2024 with TH-Trucks Team and Century Racing.
Due to their Polaris RZR Pro R not meeting FIA regulation, Kamena Rally Team has called off their Dakar Rally début in 2024.
Marcel Schaecht, a career soldier who fought for France in World War II before racing the inaugural Paris–Dakar Rally in 1979, died last Monday just three days before turning 100.
HySE, a research association between Kawasaki, Suzuki, Honda, Toyota, and Yamaha, will enter the 2024 Dakar Rally with a hydrogen vehicle in the Mission 1000 class.
Toby Hederics’ quest to make the 2025 Dakar Rally has already tossed him a major bone in the form of free registration after he and William Grarre won the Rallye du Maroc’s Road to Dakar.
Hino Team Sugawara will once again be Japan’s representative in the truck category at the Dakar Rally in 2024.
François Flick, who raced a bike at the Dakar Rally from 1998 to 2005, was killed in a car accident Monday evening at the age of 59. His son Xavier has withdrawn from the Rallye du Maroc to grieve.
After losing most of his funding following the 2023 Dakar Rally, Vaidotas Žala has picked up title sponsorship from Arijus Group to lock in a return in 2024.
The full transcript for The Checkered Flag’s interview with World Rally-Raid Championship driver and two-time Dakar Rally winner Austin Jones.
From Morocco, twice-reigning Dakar Rally winner Austin Jones had a quick word with The Checkered Flag about his World Rally-Raid Championship T3 pursuit and the 2024 season.
Due to business obligations, Truck team Dakarspeed will make their Dakar Rally return in 2025. The Maurik Van Den Heuvel-led outfit last raced in 2022.
