Want to run the 2024 Dakar Rally? Showcase yourself at the 2023 Road to Dakar races: Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, Sonora Rally, TGRSA 1000 Desert Race, Desafío Ruta 40, and Rallye du Maroc.
Miguel Angel Arranz Lopez running 2023 Morocco rallies, Baja 1000 to prepare for 2024 Dakar Rally
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To get ready for the 2024 Dakar Rally, Miguel Ángel Arranz Lopez will run a slate of prestigious off-road races in 2023 with the Morocco Desert Challenge, Rallye du Maroc, and Baja 1000.
X-raid Team reveals 7-car stable for Dakar 2023 with newcomers Casale and Ferreira, 5 female pilots
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Of X-raid Team’s 14 racers at the 2023 Dakar Rally, 5 are women like main drivers Annett Fischer, Camelia Liparoti, and Mercé Martí. They’ve also signed 3× Quad champ Ignacio Casale and European Baja champ João Ferreira.
With 72 Cars in the T1/T2 categories, 44 Light Prototypes in T3, 48 SSV in T4, and 54 Trucks in T5, there are 218 four-wheel vehicles racing in the 2023 Dakar Rally.
Krzysztof Hołowczyc commits to 2023 Cross-Country Bajas World Cup to prepare for Dakar 2024
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A decade after his last Dakar Rally start, WRC alumnus Krzysztof Hołowczyc will return in 2024. To prepare for the start, he and X-raid Team will run the full 2023 FIA World Cup for Cross Country Bajas.
After a strong maiden run in the Toyota Hilux T1+ at the Rallye du Maroc, Isidre Esteve will once again race the upgraded truck at the Dakar Rally in 2023.
Astara Team’s 01 Concept car, which will be piloted by Laia Sanz, Carlos Checa, and Óscar Fuertes at the 2023 Dakar Rally, is lighter and faster than the version raced in 2022.
Rally Raid Estonia will make their Dakar Rally début in 2023 with a pair of newcomers as Urvo Männama and Toomas Triisa respectively pilot a Toyota Hilux and Can-Am.
Despite racing the Dakar Rally for much of the last two decades, Josef Macháček will skip the 2023 edition in favour of being an advisor for Buggyra Racing.
91 entries of 187 racers make up the 2023 Dakar Classic grid including defending winners Serge Mogno and Florent Drulhon.
Sergei Kariakin’s letter to FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem asking to lift the Russian invasion condemnation policy went unanswered, and he will skip the 2023 Dakar Rally.
Newly crowned European Cup for Cross-Country Bajas champion João Ferreira will race the Dakar Rally for the first time in 2023, driving a Yamaha for X-raid Team with Filipe Palmeiro as co-driver.
Benediktas Vanagas will once again pilot a Toyota GR Hilux at the 2023 Dakar Rally. This time, however, it will be the upgraded T1+ version and he will move up to that group accordingly.
Sergio Vallejo, winner of the Spanish Rally Championship in 2009 and 2014, will compete in the Dakar Rally for the first time in 2023. He will race a Century CR6.
Team Land Cruiser Toyota Auto Body will field the Land Cruiser 300 GR Sport for Akira Miura and Ronald Basso at the 2023 Dakar Rally. The team has won T2 every year for the past 9 Dakar Rallies.
Despite the emissions controversy plaguing Hino Motors, their factory racing outfit Team Sugawara will race the 2023 Dakar Rally with longtime driver Teruhito Sugawara.
After a delay, James Hillier will make his first Dakar Rally start in 2023. Riding in the Malle Moto class, he will be the first Isle of Man TT winner to challenge Dakar.
