Nasser Al-Attiyah’s contract with Toyota exprires after the Desafío Ruta 40, while Sébastien Loeb’s Prodrive deal ends after 2023 and that team’s future is unknown with rumoured lost sponsorship.
For its third season onwards, Nitro Rallycross has become Nitrocross. The 2023/24 campaign begins at MidAmerica Outdoors in June.
The full transcript of The Checkered Flag’s interview with Sonora Rally winner and 2024 Dakar Rally-bound Sara Price.
Nasser Al-Attiyah plans FIA President campaign
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5× Dakar Rally champion and current World Rally-Raid points leader Nasser Al-Attiyah intends to run for the FIA presidency when the next election rolls around.
Veloce Racing’s Kevin Hansen and Molly Taylor dominated the Sunday Hydro X Prix to score their second win of 2023.
Sara Price, set for her Dakar Rally début in 2024, spoke with The Checkered Flag about qualifying by winning her class at the Sonora Rally, followed by running two more races immediately after.
Defending Extreme E champion X44 injected themselves right back into the points battle by taking the first Hydro X Prix after Andretti received a 15-second penalty.
Tim Marklund, a snowmobile racer and SxS Nordic driver who ran the W2RC’s Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, was killed in a crossing accident.
Extreme E’s inaugural Hydro X Prix in Scotland will be on a 2.67-kilometre track laden with rock, water, and mud traps. The 2.67 km is the shortest in series history.
Team Raceco Honda, a new short course side-by-side team with factory backing from Honda, will race the 2023 Championship Off-Road season with Dave Mason Jr. in a Talon.
After running the 2023 Dakar Rally as a co-driver, Manuel Lucchese hoped to return for 2024 on a bike but surgery for a leg injury and its rehab will keep him out.
E.ON has stepped up backing of Veloce Racing for the Hydro X Prix, switching their car from neon green to red and increasing the logo presence on Kevin Hansen and Molly Taylor’s suits.
Despite suffering multiple shoulder fractures in his Stage 2 crash at the Sonora Rally, Skyler Howes’ rehabilitation is proceeding well such that he will likely not require surgery.
Extreme E has signed Nitro Rallycross NEXT champion Tommi Hallman as the male reserve driver starting at this weekend’s Hydro X Prix.
Rallycross star and reserve driver Andreas Bakkerud will make his Extreme E début at this weekend’s Hydro X Prix and run the rest of the 2023 season for JBXE, replacing Heikki Kovalainen.
The full transcript of The Checkered Flag’s interview with Championship Off-Road driver Dylan Parsons.
Anatoly Kuzmin, who called the shots as co-driver for Viktor Moskovskikh en route to the 1996 Dakar Rally victory, has died.
