Veloce completes Hydro X Prix sweep
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Veloce Racing is the second team evere to win both Grand Finals in an Extreme E weekend after dominating in Scotland again.
Adrien Van Beveren has signed a two-year contract extension with Monster Energy Honda Rally Team, keeping him with the red and black for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
Kevin Hansen and Molly Taylor swept Saturday’s Hydro X Prix action en route to Veloce’s first win of the 2024 Extreme E season.
Ford and M-Sport have pulled back the cover on the new Ford Raptor T1+ that Carlos Sainz and Nani Roma, plus 2 others, will race in Hungary, Morocco, and the 2025 Dakar Rally.
W2RC Challenger leader Rokas Baciuška will make his third start in the Toyota Hilux at the Baja Aragón, the site of his début in the truck last year.
Extreme E’s Scotland round will use a somewhat similar track design to what was raced in 2023, albeit slightly longer with some modifications.
Portuguese cross-country champion Gonçalo Guerreiro, who impressed in his World Rally-Raid début in April, will tackle deserts for the first time in Morocco in September.
2× Hungarian Baja winner Nani Roma will give M-Sport’s new Ford Raptor T1+ a whirl in August, though it won’t be classified in the final ranking.
After finishing 26th in class in his début this January, Juan Santiago Rostan will have another go at the Dakar Rally next year.
The new Dacia Sandrider needs to survive in hot deserts for the 2025 Dakar Rally. Sébastien Loeb feels the car performs well so far, at least until the air conditioning malfunctions.
After coming up short in 2023, Team Mitsubishi Ralliart’s quartet of Sakchai Hantrakul, Kazuto Koide, Katsuhiko Taguchi and Chayapon Yotha will race a more durable Triton at the 2024 Asia Cross Country Rally.
Tibau Team will field an IVECO for Helena Tarruell Tibau, Jaqueline Ricci, and Rebeca Aramburu at the Baja Aragón, with hopes of eventually racing the Dakar Rally.
Only 14 of the 28 FIA European Baja Cup drivers, including 4 of the 10 Ultimates and half of the SSVs, finished the Italian Baja.
Honda’s American rally raiders Skyler Howes and Ricky Brabec will once again team up in their home country when they share a bike at the Vegas to Reno in August.
Like 2023, Tamara Molinaro and Tommi Hallman will be be reserve and test drivers for Extreme E when the series hits Scotland this weekend.
Former Ganassi driver Amanda Sorensen will return to Extreme E in Scotland with JBXE.
Johan Kristoffersson has laid down the gauntlet, leaving the first weekend of the 2024 World Rallycross Championship with a 22 point lead.
