The FIA’s rulebook for the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship and Baja Cups were finalised last week, with other major changes including permitting the use of rubber for tyre repair and updated time intervals for EoT.
After a successful début in Spain, SKARLAT-XTRM Team hopes to run the 2024 FIA World Baja Cup and other European rallies with more wounded Ukrainian troops while also bussing veterans out to races.
WRC veteran Kris Meeke will run his second Dakar Rally in 2024, driving an OT3 for GRallyTeam in the Challenger (formerly T3) class.
23 RallyGP, 113 Rally2, and 10 Quad riders make up the 146 bikes and ATVs that will tackle the 2024 Dakar Rally.
WRC driver Pierre-Louis Loubet will run the 2024 Africa Eco Race in the new Apache APH-01, serving as a team-mate to ex-motocross ace Gautier Paulin.
After racing every edition since 2019 and finishing 14th in class in 2023, Team Los Amigos and Éric Abel will not take part in the 2024 Dakar Rally.
Guerlain Chicherit and Guillaume de Mévius will become stuntmen/bounty hunters for the 2024 Dakar Rally onwards as they design their Toyota Hiluxes after Colt Seavers’ GMC in The Fall Guy.
82-year-old Yoshimasa Sugawara, who ran the Dakar Rally a record 36 times from 1983 to 2019, will return to the driver’s seat in a Suzuki Jimny at the Africa Eco Race in 2024.
Gautier Paulin moves from motocross to rally raid, driving Apache in 2024 Africa Eco Race
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Former FIM MXGP rider and 5× Motocross des Nations winner Gautier Paulin will make the jump to rally raid by driving the new Apache APH-01 hybrid car in the 2024 Africa Eco Race.
Philippe Boutron suffered severe leg injuries after his truck exploded before the 2022 Dakar Rally. Two years later, he is back in the driver’s seat for the 2024 race.
After his frightening Baja 1000 crash that resulted in a traumatic brain injury, Kade Walker has since awakened in hospital, is openly communicating, and has returned home to Canada to begin intensive therapy.
Maximilian and Laurence Loder will race a Puch 230GE in the 2024 Dakar Classic modified and designed to resemble their dad’s G-Wagen that he raced in the 1985 Paris–Dakar Rally.
The Yamaha Desert Challenge, created by Yamaha Motor Europe on the heels of their successful YXZ1000R spec rally raid series, will run alongside the Carta Rallye in 2024.
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing revs up for 2024, revealing a bold matte black livery blending “Speed” and “Prototype” concepts. The dual assault spans WRC, WEC, and beyond, embodying the team’s passion for victory and continuous motorsport innovation.
Toyota Gazoo Racing will field the Toyota GR DKR Hilux EVO T1U for Seth Quintero and Lucas Moraes in the 2024 Dakar Rally and World Rally-Raid Championship.
Oliver Eriksson and Robin Larsson topped Nitrocross’ Group E classes during this weekend’s Glen Helen Raceway round.
It was an inevitability when he joined Prodrive for 2024 and is now a reality: two-time World Rally-Raid Champion Nasser Al-Attiyah will race for Dacia starting in 2025.
