Portugal came out to play on their home soil as their countrymen swept the BP Ultimate Rally-Raid’s Challenger and SSV classes in the Prologue.
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.
Turkmenistan, one of the most closed countries in the world, will try their hand at hosting another rally raid in September in partnership with Russia’s Silk Way Rally.
After 16 years, the Quad category will no longer be at the Dakar Rally in 2025 due to a lack of manufacturer support.
KTM rally director Andreas Hölzl told Speedweek not entering the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship was long planned. Still, their Dakar Rally programme continues and will race Argentina and Morocco.
Dakar winner Ricky Brabec is not making the trip to Portugal with his Honda team-mates as he stays behind in America for a team sponsor function.
The Silk Way Rally’s Russia–Mongolia–China route for 2024 has been abandoned, and the race will now begin in Tomsk, Russia, and end in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar.
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.
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Nearly 900 people and 155 teams will congregate in Agadir for the ninth Morocco Desert Challenge in April.
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.
The Hansen brothers stay as drivers for the Hansen World RX Team’s all-electric effort for 2024.
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.
A frightening accident in the National Hare & Hound Pro race on Sunday has left reigning Pro 250 champion Clayton Roberts with a severe spinal cord injury, among others, and fears he may not walk again.
105 cars (35 Ultimate, 1 Stock, 32 Challenger, 19 SSV, 17 National, 1 Open) and 64 bikes (9 RallyGP, 35 Rally2, 9 Rally3, 11 Quad) comprise the grid for the inaugural BP UItimate Rally-Raid in Portugal.
Alan Ampudia is finally a San Felipe 250 winner after winning a wild duel with Toby Price, though the latter and Paul Weel might need to find an exorcist for their Baja misfortunes.
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.
