X44 closes Island X Prix II with Sunday victory
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X44 beat Rosberg X Racing to wrap up the second Island X Prix with a win.
The second Island X Prix’s first Grand Final ended with nearly everyone suffering damage, which ACCIONA | Sainz took advantage of to seal the win.
Hoping to fulfill his Dakar Rally dream in 2025, French motocross rider and Doctor of Sports Science Romain Bouzigon will enter the Rallye du Maroc in October.
After suffering a rib fracture in FP1, Emma Gilmour will not race the Island X Prix 2. Extreme E’s reserve driver Tamara Molinaro will fill in at McLaren XE.
Team Australia is now two-for-two in SCORE qualifying this year, but Toby Price and Paul Weel hope to finally turn that momentum into actually finishing the race.
Alexander Gonsul, who lost his left arm and right leg fighting for Ukraine’s Territorial Defence Forces in Dementiivka last year, will be Ivan Barbero’s co-driver at the Rallye TT Cuenca.
Extreme E’s return to Sardinia will feature a new course layout from the one used in July.
Captain Sergey Romanovsky, a Ukrainian paratrooper who lost his right leg in combat in 2014, will serve as Vadim Pritulyak’s co-driver for the Rallye TT Cuenca in Spain.
Xavier Flick will return to two-wheeled rally raid at the Rallye du Maroc as he becomes a factory rider for Kove Moto. He will also race the 2024 Dakar Rally for the Chinese marque.
After filling in for Nasser Al-Attiyah at ABT CUPRA for the first Island X Prix in July, Sébastien Loeb will do it again for the second this weekend.
The 4th Baja 400 will set the starting order for the SCORE season-ending Baja 1000 in November.
The Volkswagen Amarok, traditionally a T1 pickup truck, now exists as a Light Prototype SSV capable of racing in the T3 category thanks to Portuguese Rally-Raid Championship driver Nuno Matos.
Bike racer Juan Sebastián Castro was found dead after going missing while competing in the Colombian Darién Rally Raid Championship on Saturday. He was 30 years old.
After winning the Dakar Rally’s T4 class on début, Eryk Goczał and his family-run EnergyLandia Rally Team have started testing their new Taurus T3 cars from MCE-5.
Shinji Kazama, the first Japanese racer to run the Paris–Dakar Rally in the 1980s and who reached the North and South Poles on a bike, hopes to return to Dakar in 2026 on four wheels.
Taking up the RFEDA’s offer, former Dakar Rally rider Vadim Pritulyak will bring two SKARLAT buggies to race at the Rally TT Cuenca with injured Ukrainian soldiers as navigators.
For the 2024 Dakar Rally, Team de Rooy’s IVECO PowerStars will be piloted by Anja van Loon, Michiel Becx who last raced with them in 2020, and reigning Dakar T5 champion Janus van Kasteren.
