The Real Way to Dakar, a rally that loosely follows the old Dakar Rally route from Europe to Senegal, has been shut down as the organisers’ families are dealing with serious health crises.
After finishing 25th in the SSV category at their maiden Dakar Rally this year, the Grzegorzs of Overlimit will have another shot in 2025.
One-time FIM Bajas World Cup rider Henry Favre will make his Dakar Classic début in 2025 in a 1990 Mitsubishi Pajero shared with Alessandro Iacovelli.
Hoping to expand their factory presence in South America, Fantic has signed Tomás de Gavardo to their rally raid programme. He will make his début at the Rallye du Maroc before racing the Dakar Dakar Rally.
FIM mandating FRHPhe-02 helmets starting 2026
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The 2025 Dakar Rally and off-road season will be the last before the FIM requires all bike and quad riders to switch to the newly homologated FRHPhe-02 helmet.
After racing a Peugeot 504 Coupe at the 2024 Dakar Classic, Patrice Auzet will drive a Renault 30 based on the car that Jean-Pierre Gabreau raced at the 1981 Paris–Dakar Rally.
Dušan Drdaj will race under the new Cajdašrot Dakar Team banner for his second career Dakar Rally in 2025.
Álvaro Cóppola will run the Dakar Rally in 2025, his first time at the event in Saudi Arabia and his first in eight years.
Hino Team Sugawara will go for their 34th consecutive Dakar Rally finish in 2025. To get there, the team and boss/driver Teruhito Sugawara will focus on modifying the engine piping and improving durability.
Rather than running his second Dakar Rally in 2025, Vincent Biau has opted for the ‘other’ Dakar rally as he will enter the Africa Eco Race on his Suzuki V-Strom 800DE adventure bike.
From Nasser Al-Attiyah and Luc Alphand to Albert II of Monaco and Adam Małysz, there is quite a pool of people who have both raced the Dakar Rally (or rally raids in general) and competed in the Olympic Games.
American off-road star Brock Heger will get a taste of the Dakar Rally in 2025 with Polaris Factory colleague Max Eddy Jr. as navigator. He’ll be the team-mate to defending SSV winner Xavier de Soultrait.
Orlando Terranova, who last raced it in 2023, is open to an 18th Dakar Rally in 2026 if he is able to find it in his heart to commit to such an endeavour.
Ottavio Missoni Jr., scion of the legendary Missoni fashion line, will run his second Dakar Rally in 2025. This time, however, he will take it on by himself in Original by Motul.
Jatin Jain will make his Dakar Rally début in 2025 with the backing of Indian businessman and rally promoter Vamcy Merla.
2× Dakar Rally winner and the inaugural World Rally-Raid Champion for bikes Sam Sunderland is calling it a career.
Michel Hardy, who raced the inaugural Paris–Dakar Rally in 1979 before being a pioneer of Tatra’s rally raid excursions in the late 1980s, died 10 July at the age of 68.
