The new Can-Am Maverick R is already a race winner after just one event when Dustin Jones won the Silver State 300. It is the first time a UTV won a Best In The Desert overall.
Michel Anglade, the Dakar Rally’s first search/rescue helicopter pilot and later a flight trainer for the likes of Jacky Ickx and Ari Vatanen, died Wednesday in a helicopter crash.
Gilles Gard, who overcame two cancer battles to compete in the Dakar Rally thrice, passed away Saturday after another bout. He was 56.
After racing a Yamaha in his Dakar Rally debut, Fabien Domas will compete in the 2024 edition as well as October’s Rallye du Maroc on a GasGas RX 450F.
Ford’s new 2024 Mustang Mach-E Rally, designed to be the off-road variant in the Mach-E electric family, will make its racing début at the Rebelle Rally.
The Gotland Grand National, the world’s largest enduro race, will no longer be held at Tofta shooting range after 2023 as the Swedish military increases exercises there amid the current global climate.
After racing a KTM at his first five Dakar Rallies, Charlie Herbst will switch to a GasGas RX 450F for the 2024 edition.
While T1 is for prototype cross-country rally cars, T1.1 driver Nuno Madeira feels his specific class has not gotten the respect it deserves as the FIA focuses on the higher T1+ subcategory.
One of KAMAZ-master’s race trucks narrowly avoided an accident on the way to the Russian Rally-Raid Championship’s Baja Sibirskiy Trakt.
After last racing it in 2021, Samuel Fremy will return to the Rallye du Maroc in October. He ran his first and only Dakar Rally in 2022.
After departing Husqvarna in June, Skyler Howes will be the fifth Monster Energy Honda factory rider.
Gaston Vasquez fractured multiple vertebrae with spinal injuries in a frightening crash at the Baja 400 on Saturday. A GoFundMe has been launched to help pay his hospital fees.
Following the devasating earthquake that devastated Morocco, the Rallye du Maroc will continued as planned but will also organise relief campaigns.
French motocross and enduro rider Marshall Méplon will make his World Rally-Raid Championship début at the Rallye du Maroc in October.
Tobias Ebster, who clinched a spot in the 2024 Dakar Rally by winning the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge’s Rally2 class, will compete in the W2RC season-ending Rallye du Maroc.
It is probably easier to name Baja 400 competitors who were not penalised, such as Four-Wheeler overall winner Bryce Menzies.
Zach Sizelove will race a new Honda Talon, based on the 2-seater Talon 1000R, courtesy of Honda Off-Road Factory Racing at the 2023 Baja 1000 in November.
