2024 Baja Cup schedules released
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The newly renamed FIA World Baja Cup, European Baja Cup, and Middle East Baja Cups will respectively run eight, five, and four races in 2024.
The FIA has dropped the formula-style naming system for World Rally-Raid Championship classes (e.g., T1 is now Ultimate) while the 3 Cross-Country Bajas Cups are now simply Baja Cups.
Want to race for the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship? Registration is now open, running from 19 October through 15 December.
Season 2 of the World Rally-Raid Championship is officially in the books with the fifth and final stage of the Rallye du Maroc.
Eryk Goczał and co-driver Oriol Mena have received a reprimand from the FIA for lighting a bush fire, illegal under Moroccan law, to signal for help during the Rallye du Maroc.
Patrick O’Donovan will step to the top level of world rallycross as part of Hansen World RX Team.
Hino Team Sugawara will once again be Japan’s representative in the truck category at the Dakar Rally in 2024.
Martin Macík Jr. has been disqualified from the Rallye du Maroc as his truck’s engine restrictor did not meet regulation, opening the door to Janus van Kasteren winning the World Rally-Raid Championship.
Sébastien Loeb, Nasser Al-Attiyah, and Carlos Sainz were among the many victims of Stage 4 at the Rallye du Maroc, ruining their overall victory hopes with just one day left.
François Flick, who raced a bike at the Dakar Rally from 1998 to 2005, was killed in a car accident Monday evening at the age of 59. His son Xavier has withdrawn from the Rallye du Maroc to grieve.
After losing most of his funding following the 2023 Dakar Rally, Vaidotas Žala has picked up title sponsorship from Arijus Group to lock in a return in 2024.
The full transcript for The Checkered Flag’s interview with World Rally-Raid Championship driver and two-time Dakar Rally winner Austin Jones.
T3 drivers Dania Akeel, Rokas Baciuška, Mitch Guthrie, Cristina Gutiérrez, and Seth Quintero will get to try out T1+ cars on Wednesday after the World Rally-Raid Championship season ends.
Stage 3 of the Rallye du Maroc was a duelling tale of two similarly named contenders as Mattias Ekström beat Nasser Al-Attiyah for the FIA win while Matthias Walkner fell just moments after starting the stage.
Pau Navarro, already impressing in his début in the top-flight T1 category at the Rallye du Maroc, was quick to point out that even his T1.1 subcategory pales in comparison to the monsters of the even higher T1+.
From Morocco, twice-reigning Dakar Rally winner Austin Jones had a quick word with The Checkered Flag about his World Rally-Raid Championship T3 pursuit and the 2024 season.
Nasser Al-Attiyah’s 2023 dominance meant he had already won his second World Rally-Raid Championship before the Rallye du Maroc was even halfway done.
