With the 2024 Dakar Rally’s 48-hour Chrono Stage forcing everyone to camp overnight, they will receive rations which includes sardines and leek and potato soup with coffee to wash them down.
After Riwald’s departure, Jongbloed Fiscaal Juristen has become the new title sponsor of Gert Huzink’s Truck team for the 2024 Dakar Rally.
A frightening accident and lengthy extraction process overshadowed last week’s Baja 1000 as Kade Walker remains unconscious in hospital with a traumatic brain injury.
Juan Cruz Yacopini is now an FIA Platinum driver for the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship, while others like T3 champion Seth Quintero have been promoted to Gold.
After becoming the first electric bike to race the Dakar Rally in 2020, Tacita will have two Discanto bikes in the 2024 race’s Mission 1000 challenge.
Ecurie Frères d’Armes, who races rallies with French Army veterans piloting restored military vehicles, will return to the Dakar Classic in 2025.
After over three decades as the premier ice racing series, the Andros Trophy will begin its final season in December.
As the FIA drops the T-based structure for rally raid classes for actual terms, manager Jérôme Roussel told Relevo that the process saw much deliberation that even included asking ChatGPT.
Tamara Molinaro will team up with fellow former Championship Driver Andreas Bakkerud at JBXE for the Copper X Prix as JBXE’s Hedda Hosås heads to McLaren.
Ahmed Alkuwari has abandoned his plans of making his fifth Dakar Rally in 2024 due to low funding. He was supposed to compete in the Challenger class.
After racing for JBXE for much of the 2023 Extreme E calendar, Hedda Hosås will take over for the injured Emma Gilmour at McLaren at the season-ending Copper X Prix.
Lithuanians Benediktas Vanagas and Vladas Jurkevičius will race Toyota Hiluxes at the 2024 Dakar Rally for Toyota Gazoo Racing Baltics.
KH-7 Epsilon Team, who was barred from racing the 2023 Dakar Rally’s T5 class as their MAN was hydrogen/diesel powered, will instead compete in the 2024 race’s Mission 1000 programme.
For the first time since 2019, the 2024 Silk Way Rally will depart Russia as it begins in Tomsk, heads through Khovd, Mongolia, and ends in Khorgos, China.
American Outdoor Events will not proceed with their Pro Series short course championship in 2024.
The 2024 Dakar Rally, the fifth in Saudi Arabia, is slightly shorter than its 2023 counterpart at 7,891 total km, but the 4,727 in Selective Sections still trumps it.
Astara Team will have double girl power in the driver’s seats of their 02 Concept T1.2 cars for the 2024 Dakar Rally in Laia Sanz and Patricia Pita.
