Baumanis Wins EuroRX Opener
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Jānis Baumanis wins the opening round of the 2023 FIA European Rallycross Championship after a tumultuous weekend.
The decision to run the Sonora Rally was last minute, but it was more than worth it for Brendan Crow as he won the National Enduro class.
In finishing second overall among National Moto entries at the Sonora Rally, Francisco Alvarez is heading to the 2024 Dakar Rally.
Sara Price will make her Dakar Rally début in 2024 after winning three stages in the Sonora Rally’s National Car/UTV class.
Anton Marklund carries through his superior form from 2022 into the first round of the 2023 FIA European Rallycross Championship.
Matt Sutherland will race the Sonora Rally and Mexican 1000 back-to-back on his own, and he got the first out of the way with a blazing performance in National Malle Moto.
Rokas Baciuška and Romain Dumontier closed out the Sonora Rally by winning every stage including the last, while David ZIlle and Ardit Kurtaj played spoiler with their first stage wins.
The roadbook for Stage #4 of the Sonora Rally accidentally sent riders in the wrong direction, while Nasser Al-Attiyah has the FIA win all but locked up pending the fifth and final leg.
After completing the Baja 1000 in its début in November, Ford Performance’s Ranger Raptor will return home to Australia to compete in the Finke Desert Race in partnership with Walkinshaw Performance.
Tragedy once again struck the Morocco Desert Challenge as Malle Moto rider Bram van der Wouden died from the heat and exhaustion. He was 48.
After racing a T4 at the 2023 edition, brothers Frédéric and Stéphane Chesnau will move up to T1 for the 2024 Dakar Rally in a Century Racing CR6.
After seventeen years in a truck, Brandon Walsh will trade his Toyota Tacoma for a Polaris RZR Pro R starting at the Baja 500. HE will compete in the Pro UTV Open class.
FIA overall leader Sébastien Loeb’s Sonora Rally ended with a crash in Stage 3, while Daniel Sanders bolstered his FIM lead on two wheels.
Laurent Lichtleuchter, a 3× Dakar Rally T2-winning navigator, died instantly in Wednesday’s Morocco Desert Challenge stage when his and Patrice Garrouste’s car was T-boned and caught fire.
Roman Rusinov’s G-Drive Racing might be known as an LMP2 powerhouse at Le Mans, but they have now added off-road to their plate by running Russian Rally-Raid events including the Silk Way Rally.
All 4 Prodrive Hunters finished in the top 5 in Stage 2 of the Sonora Rally led by Sébastien Loeb, with brothers Marcos and Cristian Baumgart, and Guerlain Chicherit in tow.
With a review of rule changes, the calendar, and the lowdown on key competitors, here is your preview of the 2023 FIA European Rallycross Championship.
