Rebellion Spierings, a new partnership between Dakar Team Spierings and Rebellion Racing, will race the Taurus T3 Max in the Challenger class at Dakar 2025 with team owners Alexandre Pesci and Paul Spierings.
Good friends Ottavio Missoni and Cesare Zacchetti will join forces again at the 2025 Dakar Rally, racing Kove 450 Rally EX bikes in the Original by Motul class.
Like many of his classmates, Juraj Varga has made the switch from Quads to SSVs after their category’s Dakar Rally demise. Varga hopes to be the first Slovak to race the Dakar in two different classes, but to get there, his focus first will be on European rallies.
Paul Spierings’ Dakar Team Spierings has fomed a partnership with Rebellion Racing for the 2025 Dakar Rally. Rebellion brings their Toyota Hilux into the fold while Spierings will have his two Challenger cars.
After four years of leading the OT3 programme, G Rally Team will début the new G-ECKO Challenger car at the 2025 Dakar Rally.
Malle Moto riders will be allocated six sets of tyres for the 2025 Dakar Rally, and the use of unmarked tyres creates a 10-minute penalty. Repairs must be done inside a designated area while an engine change eliminates them from the class altogether.
Jaromír Romančík has signed with the newly created Cajdašrot Dakar Team, with whom he will race the 2025 Dakar Rally as a solo rider in Original by Motul.
Frantisek Brutovsky on injury recovery: "It's clear I won't make it to this year's Dakar"
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As František Brutovský continues to heal from his fractured vertebra sustained at the Hungarian Baja, he will not be able to make his Dakar Rally début in 2025.
Former Audi driver Mattias Ekström has rounded out M-Sport Ford’s four-car 2025 Dakar Rally programme, where he will drive the new Ford Raptor T1+.
After racing the 2024 Dakar Classic in a Porsche 924, Łukasz Zoll and his twin brother Michał will switch to the main Dakar Rally in 2025, driving a Can-Am Maverick from South Racing.
After a tumultuous 2024 Dakar Classic for their Porsche 924s, P-Rally has opted to replace the 2-litre engine with a 2.5L version without a turbo, among other changes.
After finishing 23rd in Challenger at the 2024 Dakar Rally, Jeffrey Otten will not enter the 2025 edition.
Luciano Benavides and Daniel Sanders have respectively moved from Husqvarna and GasGas to Red Bull KTM Factory Racing, where they will team up with Kevin Benavides starting at the Rallye du Maroc.
Guillaume de Mévius and Guerlain Chicherit surprised the rally world when they opted to leave Overdrive Racing for X-raid Team, but with the unveil of the new Mini JCW Rally 3.0i, they think it’ll give them their best chances at winning.
Like many teams, Buggyra ZM Racing will use the Rallye du Maroc as a dress rehearsal for the 2025 Dakar Rally. Martin Šoltys and Karel Poslední will respectievly drive a Tatra Buggyra EVO3 and Tatra Phoenix.
Continuing his trend of naming his trucks, Martin Macík Jr.’s 2025 Dakar Rally challenger has been dubbed Benny the Big Guy (or Bohouš in Czech). It will make its début at the Rallye du Maroc.
2023 Truck winner Janus van Kasteren will not return to the Dakar Rally in 2025, but plans to do so in a car at the 2026 edition.
