Xavier Flick joins Kove Moto factory programme
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Xavier Flick will return to two-wheeled rally raid at the Rallye du Maroc as he becomes a factory rider for Kove Moto. He will also race the 2024 Dakar Rally for the Chinese marque.
After winning the Dakar Rally’s T4 class on début, Eryk Goczał and his family-run EnergyLandia Rally Team have started testing their new Taurus T3 cars from MCE-5.
Shinji Kazama, the first Japanese racer to run the Paris–Dakar Rally in the 1980s and who reached the North and South Poles on a bike, hopes to return to Dakar in 2026 on four wheels.
For the 2024 Dakar Rally, Team de Rooy’s IVECO PowerStars will be piloted by Anja van Loon, Michiel Becx who last raced with them in 2020, and reigning Dakar T5 champion Janus van Kasteren.
After a disappointing Desafío Ruta 40, Sebastián Halpern has elected to skip the Rallye du Maroc and 2024 Dakar Rally.
By winning the Desafío Ruta 40’s Road to Dakar in UTV and Moto, Juan José Semino and Juan Santiago Rostan have earned free registration for the 2024 (or 2025) Dakar Rally.
Speaking with the High Performance podcast, Fernando Alonso is more than open to racing the Dakar Rally again, considering it such a major goal that he’ll race it for a decade if it means he can win.
Sand racer Maxime Pouponnot hopes to follow in his father’s footsteps and race at the Dakar Rally in 2025. To get there, he plans to run the Rallye du Maroc in October.
Ignacio Corcuera’s Unimog that he’ll race in the 2024 Dakar Classic was previously a snowplow and firefighter training truck. Since buying it, Corcuera has also brought it to Ukraine on humanitarian missions.
TH-Trucks Rally Team and CAP 4 Racing will build five Polaris RZR Pro R cars to compete at the 2024 Dakar Rally in T4. The effort débuted at the Baja Aragón.
Speaking to Auto Hebdo, Nasser Al-Attiyah’s co-driver Mathieu Baumel contextualised their impending Toyota departure as the duo looking to remain competitive in the long run even if the Hilux T1+ is still the top rally raid car today.
After a relatively poor showing at the 2023 Dakar Rally for BFGoodrich, SoyMotor reported the tyre supplier will introduce a slower but more durable compound for the 2024 race.
Newly accepted for the 2024 Dakar Rally, Sébastien Herbet hopes to ride that momentum into the Rallye du Maroc as his final dress rehearsal.
Due to low Quad entries, riders hoping to run the 2024 Dakar Rally must have either raced a Dakar in the past five years or sign up for the W2RC in 2023 or 2024.
From newcomers like Oran O’Kelly and Ronald Venter to returnees like Ashish Raorane, many Dakar Rally dreams will be realised in 2024 as the ASO’s rider acceptance letters make the rounds.
Bahrain Raid Xtreme confirmed to The Checkered Flag that they will skip the Desafío Ruta 40, at the cost of the W2RC, to focus on the Rallye du Maroc and 2024 Dakar Rally. The team will also retain the BRX name amid speculation about withdrawn Bahraini title sponsorship.
After being rejected for the 2024 Dakar Rally due to a lack of desert racing experience, Matthieu Jauffraud will look ahead to the 2025 edition and enter the W2RC races in Abu Dhabi and Morocco.
