Bruno Santos was supposed to make his Dakar Rally début two years ago but couldn’t due to injury. He finally gets his chance in 2024.
Due to funding and other matters, Lithuanians Agnė Telyčėnaitė, Sandra Rimkė, and Aistė Perminaitė will not race the 2024 Dakar Rally. Their teams were originally going to compete in the SSV class.
Martin Šoltys, Tomáš Šikola, and Petr Schweiner will race the upgraded Tatra Buggyra Evo3 truck at the 2024 Dakar Rally for Tatra Buggyra ZM Racing.
Audi will seek to rebound from their disastrous 2023 Dakar Rally with a revamped RS Q e-tron that focuses on reliability.
After racing the 2023 Dakar Rally in the T3 class, Joan Font will head to the former T4 category (now SSV) for 2024, racing for Scuderia Ramilo Rodamoto.
Wei Han and HanWei Motorsport Team will move up from T1.2 as part of a deal with T1.1 team Red-Lined Motorsport to create a new T1+ car, which they will début at the 2024 Dakar Rally.
Ondřej Martinec has been forced to abandon his 2024 Dakar Rally plans after undergoing heart surgery. He and Olga Roučková were supposed to race a Toyota Land Cruiser in the Dakar Classic.
Despite a 3rd in Quad at the 2023 Dakar Rally, Pablo Copetti will not return in 2024. He considered a switch to SSV but didn’t have the cash and isn’t happy with the ASO’s new rules for Quad riders.
With the 2024 Dakar Rally’s 48-hour Chrono Stage forcing everyone to camp overnight, they will receive rations which includes sardines and leek and potato soup with coffee to wash them down.
After Riwald’s departure, Jongbloed Fiscaal Juristen has become the new title sponsor of Gert Huzink’s Truck team for the 2024 Dakar Rally.
After becoming the first electric bike to race the Dakar Rally in 2020, Tacita will have two Discanto bikes in the 2024 race’s Mission 1000 challenge.
Ecurie Frères d’Armes, who races rallies with French Army veterans piloting restored military vehicles, will return to the Dakar Classic in 2025.
As the FIA drops the T-based structure for rally raid classes for actual terms, manager Jérôme Roussel told Relevo that the process saw much deliberation that even included asking ChatGPT.
Ahmed Alkuwari has abandoned his plans of making his fifth Dakar Rally in 2024 due to low funding. He was supposed to compete in the Challenger class.
Lithuanians Benediktas Vanagas and Vladas Jurkevičius will race Toyota Hiluxes at the 2024 Dakar Rally for Toyota Gazoo Racing Baltics.
KH-7 Epsilon Team, who was barred from racing the 2023 Dakar Rally’s T5 class as their MAN was hydrogen/diesel powered, will instead compete in the 2024 race’s Mission 1000 programme.
The 2024 Dakar Rally, the fifth in Saudi Arabia, is slightly shorter than its 2023 counterpart at 7,891 total km, but the 4,727 in Selective Sections still trumps it.
