Dakar

Rider Konrad Dąbrowski has been forced to ditch his 2023 Dakar Rally plans after being hospitalised for appendicitis.

Aliyyah Koloc will make her Dakar Rally début in the T3 category but hopes to race in T1 someday. The first step towards this will be taken in 2023 when she races in the South African Rally-Raid Championship in a T1 for Red-Lined Motorsport.

With Yasmeen Koloc still nursing her wrist injury sustained in a GT crash, Buggyra Racing advisor and two-time Dakar Rally winner Josef Macáček will replace her in the #345 T3 entry.

The new Red Bull Can-Am Factory Team and Junior Team will field Can-Ams for Mitch Guthrie, Austin Jones, and Seth Quintero (Junior Team); plus Rokas Baciuška, Cristina Gutiérrez, and Francisco López Contardo (Factory),

Century Racing will have ten of their CR6 cars in the 2023 Dakar Rally. Two are the new CR6-T model that use an engine typically found in an Audi RS4 and Porsche Cayenne.

X-raid Team will race in the 2023 Dakar Rally’s T1+ category with Jakub Przygonski and Sebastian Halpern in the MINI John Cooper Works Rally Plus.

After racing with IVECO in 2022, Martin Šoltys returns to Buggyra Tatra Racing for the 2023 Dakar Rally.

KH-7 Epsilon Team’s MAN truck for the 2023 Dakar Rally will partly run on hydrogen.

Denis Krotov, Konstantin Zhiltsov, and Alexei Kuzmich agreed to the FIA’s terms condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and will run the 2023 Dakar Rally under the Kyrgyz, Israeli, and FIA flags.

Feryn Dakar Sport’s two 2023 Dakar Rally entries, a pair of Toyota Land Cruisers for Koen Wauters and Tom de Leeuw, have been kicked out by the FIA for non-compliant rollcages.

The 2023 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia runs from the Sea Camp along the Red Sea through Al-‘Ula, Ḥaʼil, Dawadmi, Riyadh, Haradh, Shaybah, the Empty Quarter, Al-Hofuf, and ends in Dammam.

Georges Groine, winner of the Dakar Rally’s Truck category in 1982 and 1983, has passed away at the age of 88.

Heels on Wheels, a Czech team led by Lenka Hlavatá and Gabriela Budínová that hoped to be the first all-female amateur outfit at the Dakar Rally, has postponed their entry to 2024

Hélder Rodrigues has long enjoyed success at the Dakar Rally on a bike, but will return to the race after five years away in a T3 Light Prototype.