Short course added to 2025 Mint 400 programme
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Primm will once again play host to short course off-road racing as part of the Mint 400’s support card in 2025.
Former Quad rider Juraj Varga made his début as the driver of a side-by-side at last weekend’s Hungarian Baja. Although new to the vehicle and he wasn’t classified, he feels he’s getting comfortable the more he runs.
The full transcript of The Checkered Flag’s interview with 2025 Dakar Rally-bound Polaris driver Brock Heger.
Françoise Elby, an artist and 5× Paris–Dakar Rally competitor who was the highest finishing woman in 1983, died earlier this week at the age of 85.
Alain Cournil, who ran the Cournil 4×4 marque and sponsored its drivers in the early Paris–Dakar Rallies before it became the modern UMM, died earlier this week at the age of 74.
Brock Heger, an American off-road star who has won in virtually everything he’s touched, sat down with The Checkered Flag to discuss heading to the Dakar Rally for the first time in 2025.
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.
Buggyra boss Martin Koloc’s cross-country début ended early after he withdrew from the Hungarian Baja, feeling navigation was too dangerous amidst dust and getting lost on the Bakony military training range.
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.
When Bark River hosted an unprecedented 3-race weekend to make up for the rained out Crandon Saturday in June, Mickey Thomas and Jordan Bernloehr answered the call by winning all of them in Pro 2 and Pro Buggy.
While not classified in the FIA results as it is an Experimental car, M-Sport’s new Ford Raptor T1+ is technically already a race winner after being the fastest at the Hungarian Baja.
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.
Off-Road Motorsports Hall of Famer Bill Savage aims to use his new role as NORRA’s technical director to emphasise competitor safety while ensuring vintage cars that race maintain their historic luster.
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.
