Breaking away from diesel engines, the new Mini John Cooper Works Rally 3.0i will use a 6-cylinder in-line petrol motor that produces 263 kW of power and 570 Nm of torque.
Now retired from the Dakar Rally, Erik Van Loon will race the Dakar Classic for the first time in 2025 in an Audi S1. Before that, he will test his new ride in Morocco, then take over South Racing’s new Can-Am Maverick R at the Rallye du Maroc.
After three Dakar Rallies and a Malle Moto win, Charan Moore will be doing something else in 2025.
After running the last nine Dakar Rallies in a car, Vaidotas Žala will make the switch to a truck in 2025 when he races an IVECO for Team de Rooy.
Challenger star Mitch Guthrie will move up to the Ultimate category in 2025 when he teams up with Carlos Sainz and Nani Roma to drive the Ford Raptor T1+ from M-Sport.
MM Technology has pulled the cover back on their latest rally truck, which team owner and defending Dakar Rally winner Martin Macík Jr., Mitchel van den Brink, and a to-be-named third driver will pilot at the 2025 race.
The full transcript of The Checkered Flag’s second interview with Justin Gerlach.
FIM Trial and Enduro star Sandra Gómez has signed with Fantic Rally Team, and will run the Rallye du Maroc and 2025 Dakar Rally on a Fantic XEF 450 Rally.
A year after being rejected for the Dakar Rally, Justin Gerlach sat down with The Checkered Flag for another conversation, this time with his ticket to the 2025 race in hand.
Ten years after his last Dakar Rally, Piotr Beaupre will make his fifth start in the race in an SSV for bike regular DUUST Rally Team.
After racing a Mini at this year’s Dakar Rally, Pau Navarro will pilot a Ford Ranger T1+ from Past-Racing at the 2025 edition as well as next month’s Rallye du Maroc.
After 33 years of racing and eight Dakar Rallies, Jan Brabec is set to hang up his helmet and plans to turn his Strojrent Racing team into a rider development programme.
After spending the last three Dakar Rallies with Team de Rooy, Martin and Mitchel van den Brink has switched to IVECOs from MM Technology for the 2025 edition.
After five years with Praga, Aleš Loprais will race an IVECO PowerStar at the Rallye du Maroc and 2025 Dakar Rally as part of a new alliance with Team de Rooy.
An off-road buggy built by Dakar Rally winner Sergei Kariakin and his SNAG Racing team is now set to be transferred to the Sverdlovsk regional government before being shipped off to Ukraine.
Dakar Rally legend and 2× World Enduro Champion Stéphane Peterhansel showed he still knows his way around an enduro course when he was the best rider at the FIM Enduro Vintage Trophy in Italy on his 1981 Yamaha IT 250.
Fesh Fesh’s new Tatra FF7 truck, a throwback to the cab-over look, finished third in class in its début at Baja Poland last month. The team hopes to continue the momentum at the Rallye du Maroc and 2025 Dakar Rally.
