Despite a transmission problem that sank him to a last-place finish in class, former Moto2 rider Carlos Tatay was pleased with how his first cross-country rally went at the Baja Lorca.
Bryce Menzies and Arturo Salas will look to repeat their Baja 500 victories as summer approaches.
Sylvio de Barros, 3× Porsche Cup Brasil champion who raced the Dakar Rally and was the reigning South American Rally Race winner, died Monday after slipping on a waterfall and hitting his head on a rock.
Kim Vatanen, son of Dakar and WRC legend Ari Vatanen and the manager for drivers like Sébastien Ogier and Craig Breen, died at age 51 after a battle with cancer.
Eduard Pons topped the Baja Greece outright for his first cross-country win, while Land Cruiser-turned-Hilux driver Akira Miura clinched the Ultimate victory in his category début.
29 FIA cars, 54 FIM bikes,17 Open vehicles, and 15 Desafío Ansenuza entries comrpise the grid for the Desafío Ruta 40 YPF INFINIA.
Vincent Biau, who finished 15th in the Original by Motul/Malle Moto class at his maiden Dakar Rally in January, will not return to the race for 2025.
The 2024 Championship Off-Road season began by really putting the “Mayhem” in “Mayhem at the Motorplex”.
Jean-Luc Léran, who explored the Sahara for nearly 5 decades and finished 8th in the 1991 Paris–Dakar Rally, passed away last Saturday at the age of 75.
The Stadium Super Trucks will race in Australia for the first time since 2021 when they appear at the Adelaide 500 weekend in November.
Nandu Jubany, a Michelin Star-awarded chef, plans to race the Dakar Rally in 2025 with MD Rallye Sport.
The Dakar Classic will increase its list of participating vehicles for 2025. After the first 4 editions limited racers to cars/trucks built before 1999, those from 2000–2005 may now also take part.
The 2025 Dakar Rally will run from Bisha to Shubaytah with 3 stages in the Empty Quarter, 5 with separate routes for cars and bikes, and even a mass start like the old days on the final leg.
Due to “safety reasons” reportedly pertaining to the border, the Asia Cross Country Rally will remain exclusively in Thailand for 2024 instead of crossing into Malaysia as planned.
With the death of the Quad class for the 2025 Dakar Rally, defending winner Manuel Andújar will not take part in another category, though he is interested in racing an SSV in the future.
Gert Duson: 2024 Morocco Desert Challenge "a total difference from last year's unfortunate edition"
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After the 2023 Morocco Desert Challenge was marred by tragedy, a swath of safety requirements for the 2024 edition proved to be the right call, and director Gert Duson couldn’t have asked for anything else.
The top Latin American rider at the Desafío Ruta 40 will be crowned the inaugural Ibero-American Cross Country Rally Champion.
