Hennie de Klerk and TreasuryONE Motorsport plan to return to the Dakar Rally in 2026, and will hone their skills by adopting a Dakar-style race strategy in the 2024 South African Rally-Raid Championship.
Ted Toleman, who died last Wednesday, is best known for his team that launched Ayrton Senna’s F1 career. After selling the team to Benetton, he went on to tackle the legendary Paris–Dakar Rally three times.
Tacita used lessons learned from racing the 2024 Dakar Rally with the Discanto electric bike to develop their T-Race Enduro, Motard, and Motorally models.
Bournezeau Rallye Aventure will race the 2025 Dakar Rally with a Drakart Scorpion driven by Yannick Grèzes and the Dakar Classic with Julien Bessé in a Mitsubishi Pajero and Tenessy Grèzes in a Toyota HDJ80.
From Juraj Varga intentionally retiring from Portugal to Manuel Andújar’s plea to the FIM, many Quad competitors are unsurprisingly less than pleased about their class being axed from the Dakar Rally for 2025.
With the demise of the Quad category, Pablo Copetti will switch to driving an SSV for the 2025 Dakar Rally as he races a Polaris RZR for TH-Trucks Team.
Fantic will let XEF 450 Rally owners enter amateur rallies as part of the Fantic Rally Xperience, or tackle the 2025 Dakar Rally with factory support and a shot at joining their works team in 2026.
After suffering a spinal cord injury in a European Moto2 crash that ended his bike racing career, Carlos Tatay will drive an SSV at the Baja Aragón with the goal of someday racing the Dakar Rally.
Anja Van Loon will race a truck again at the 2025 Dakar Rally, albeit not with an all-female crew like in 2024. Husband Erik Van Loon will move to the adjacent Dakar Classic in an Audi S1.
After 16 years, the Quad category will no longer be at the Dakar Rally in 2025 due to a lack of manufacturer support.
Jean-Jacques Rey, creator of the 4L Trophy humanitarian rally raid and the women-only Trophée Roses des Sables, died Wednesday at the age of 79.
2007 Dakar Rally Truck winner Hans Stacey is looking to head back to the event in 2025, having recently tested an Audi Quattro for the Dakar Classic. His last Dakar was in 2017.
MING Racing Sports and František Brutovský plan to race their new T1+, a Ford F-150 with some inspiration from Audi, in Bajas like Poland, Hungary and Aragón before culminating in a run at the 2025 Dakar Rally.
Police have arrested 3 officers, 1 for conspiracy, in connection with the search that ended in rally rider Jonathan Savel’s death. Investigators found he and his unit were shot 5 times in unprotected areas.
Undergoing a difficult stretch of his career since the death of brother-in-law Paulo Gonçalves at the 2020 Dakar Rally, Joaquim Rodrigues is walking away from the sport.
Belgian Federal Police Special Units member Jonathan Savel, who raced the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge with the goal of making the 2025 Dakar Rally, died in a shootout on Monday. He was 36.
After ten years and two Dakar Rally wins, Red Bull KTM Factory Racing opted not to renew Toby Price’s contract following the 2024 Dakar in January. His focus for the rest of the year will be on SCORE.
