Rosendo Tourinan, 1950–2024
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Rosendo Touriñan, who called the shots as a Dakar Rally co-driver in the 1980s through 2000s, died Wednesday at the age of 74.
Yasir Seaidan will have a new Metge brother by his side for the rest of the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship as Michaël Metge takes over the co-driver’s seat from younger brother Adrien.
Chip Ganassi has pulled the plug on his Extreme E programme after racing since the inaugural season, but a return could happen when the series becomes Extreme H in 2025.
With Mattias Ekström off to McLaren and his X44 team shut down, Fraser McConnell will partner up with Laia Sanz at ACCIONA | Sainz XE Team for the 2024 Extreme E season.
1985 Paris–Dakar Rally racer Philippe Moustelou, who went on to organise rallies in Morocco and even dabbled as an actor on local film sets, died Sunday at the age of 64.
JBXE is the latest Extreme E team to dip into the rally raid pool as they have signed Dania Akeel to be Andreas Bakkerud’s team-mate.
Lewis Hamilton’s 2022 Extreme E championship-winning Team X44 is exiting the series.
The Dacia Sandrider will undergo testing with Nasser Al-Attiyah, Cristina Gutiérrez, and Sébastien Loeb after the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in March. It débuts at the Rallye du Maroc in October.
The Budapest–Bamako Rally, the largest amateur rally raid going from Hungary to Sierra Leone, had to adjust its route in Senegal as protests over the presidential election’s postponement continue.
After 12 years and three Dakar Rally wins, Gustavo Gugelmin is walking away from navigating to spend time with his family. He was recently the co-driver for Austin Jones.
With his wrist healed after breaking it in last month’s Dakar Rally, Tosha Schareina will spend the buildup to the next World Rally-Raid Championship race by entering the FIM E-Xplorer World Cup.
Kyle Chaney had a wild week at King of the Hammers as he won the UTV Hammers Championship and nearly claimed the Race of Kings, but JP Gomez’s frantic charge from starting 99th propelled him to the top.
After making his Dakar Rally début in the SSV category, Eduard Pons plans to race in the higher Challenger class at the 2025 race. To prepare him, he will run the Saudi Baja in a Taurus T3 Max.
South Africa wants to host the World Rally-Raid Championship in 2025. To hopefully achieve this, the South African Rally-Raid Championship has turned the Waterberg 400 into a three-day event for 2024.
Matthias Walkner missed the Dakar Rally after a severe fracture in testing that rendered his left ankle little more than dust, but 33 hours of surgeries and 2 months of hospital stays later, he’s going home.
McLaren will have a pair of rally raiders for the 2024 Extreme E lineup as they sign Mattias Ekström and newly crowned Dakar Rally Challenger winner Cristina Gutiérrez.
Sergei Kariakin: "(Dakar) organisers are working hard to find ways for Russian teams to participate"
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On the heels of being allowed to race the Abu Dhabi Baja Challenge, Dakar Rally alumnus Sergei Kariakin believes the ASO is trying to get Russians like him and KAMAZ-master back on the Dakar grid.
