Fesh Fesh to field FF7 at 2025 Dakar Rally
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Tomáš Vrátný will race the 2025 Dakar Rally in a new truck dubbed the Tatra FF7 prepared by Fesh Fesh team.
Alexey Shmottev on Maverick R's marathon rally raid debut: "The best part is operating the gearbox"
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The Can-Am Maverick R faced its biggest test yet when Sergei Kariakin and Alexey Shmottev raced it at the 2-week Silk Way Rally. While it didn’t go as they hoped, Shmottev had praise for it.
Willem Avenant, Justin Gerlach, Robbie Wallace and many more will finally realise their Dakar Rally dreams in 2025 after their applications were accepted by race organisers.
After Championship Off-Road’s points-paying Saturday at Crandon in June got rained out, Bark River will let everyone make up their lost race day on Friday before the Off-Road Rumble in the UP.
The 2025 SCORE International season will be more of the same with the usual four dates: San Felipe 250, Baja 500, Baja 400, and Baja 1000.
T5.2 trucks, which are assistance vehicles unlike the racing T5.1 ones, will have a different route for the Chrono Stage at the 2025 Dakar Rally along with their own race director.
For the remainder of the 2024 rally raid season, Guillaume de Mévius is entrusting his navigator’s seat to the great Mathieu Baumel.
Ken Block, Marlin Czajkowski, Johnny Greaves, Jimmy Lewis, Rod Millen, Jon Nelson, Mike Pearlman, John Rettie, Pete Sohren, Scott Steinberger and Evelyn Tallman-Duceshi comprise the ORMHOF’s 2024 class.
With his first race for Dacia looming, Nasser Al-Attiyah will drop down to the Challenger class in the meantime by driving a Taurus T3 Max at the Baja Aragón.
WRC2 drivers Pierre-Louis Loubet and Julien Saunier will make their FIA Baja débuts at the Baja Aragón, which in turn marks the first race for the T3.U subcategory for electric/hybrid Challenger cars.
Dakar bike racer Charlie Herbst has created Challenger Racing Team, hoping to provide logistical and marketing support for fellow riders.
Thierry Vladikine, a paratrooper who served in the French 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment in the 1980s and raced the Paris–Dakar Rally twice during the decade, died Sunday at the age of 62.
The new Ford Raptor T1+, the Toyota GR DKR Hilux EVO T1U piloted by both driver and navigator, and the 2025 Dakar Classic-bound Audi Quattro all got to tear up Goodwood House.
Joey Evans, who was paralysed in a 2007 accident but went on to race the Dakar Rally a decade later, now plans to challenge the equally legendary Baja 1000 in November as an Ironman rider.
2015 FIA LMP2 World Endurance Champion Roman Rusinov can now add a rally raid title to his résumé after topping the T3 class at the Silk Way Rally.
Shinsuke Umeda: "FIA is using Dakar as bait to forcibly unify [rally raids], which is causing problems"
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2023 World Rally-Raid Championship SSV runner-up Shinsuke Umeda feels the series has struggled to draw interest due to a combination of high transport costs and poor marketing.
The ERX Off-Road National was a wild affair in the Pro classes, from Dylan Parsons and Chris Van Den Elzen’s Pro SPEC battle to Ryan Beat overcoming broken bones to win Pro 2.
