Joshua Thomas of Brisbane, Australia, spent Thursday testing a Stadium Super Truck with plans of making his series début in the 2023 opener at Long Beach.
Robert Parker, the highest finishing rookie at the King of the Hammers’ Can-Am Championship and a GNCC Racing ATV rider, passed away last Wednesday in an accident. He was 38.
The 2023 Sonora Rally, the first W2RC leg in the Americas, will run from 23–28 April from Hermosillo up to San Luis Río Colorado.
Perhaps putting the “raid” in “rally raid”, reigning Russian Rally-Raid Champion Anton Melnikov, Dakar Rally veteran Anton Nikolaev, and 2011 FIM Quad World Cup Dmitry Pavlov have donated supplies like socks and spare parts to occupying Russian forces in Kherson.
Under his “Sport e Solidarietà” project, Italian racer Michele Bini hopes to enter the 2024 Dakar Rally while also supporting medical programmes in Vicopisano.
KAMAZ's Anton Shibalov: "Even those not in [T5] say, 'It's not so interesting without you.'"
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Anton Shibalov claimed fellow Dakar Rally competitors told him the race isn’t as interesting with KAMAZ-master barred from taking part, though he doesn’t fault others for capitalising on their absence.
For 2023, SODA will visit Tigerton MX and the Sunnyview Expo Center, the latter last hosting racing in 2011, while also teaming up with the Monster Truck Nitro Tour.
After an impressive Dakar Rally début in which all three riders completed the race, Kove Moto intends to make their second World Rally-Raid Championship start in April at the Sonora Rally.
After winning the 2023 Dakar Classic in a Toyota Land Cruiser HDJ80, Juan Morera will return in 2024 with a car modelled on Jacky Ickx’s 1986 Porsche 959, using the base of a Porsche 964.
Hallspeed, behind the Toyota GR DKR Hilux T1+ that won the last two Dakar Rallies, is now under the ownership of South African Rally-Raid champion Shameer Variawa.
Eduard Pons, rally and cross-country competitor, plans to run all four World Rally-Raid Championship rounds in 2023 ahead of racing the 2024 Dakar Rally. He finished twelfth in T3 in the first W2RC leg at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge.
The 2023 Desafío Ruta 40, the penultimate stage of the World Rally-Raid Championship, will run for five stages and 4,440 km from La Rioja, through Belén, and end in Salta.
As much as he would love another shot at it full-time, Davey Hamilton Jr. told fellow driver Bill Hynes on his podcast that there is “no chance” of a return to Stadium Super Trucks due to his injury history.
Occasional World Rally Championship driver and twice PWRC champion Armindo Araújo is embarking on a rally raid programme in 2023 alongside his usual rally schedule with the hopes of competing in the Dakar Rally by next year.
Polaris Factory Racing has pulled the cover off of their first motorsport-specific UTV that Brock Heger, Cayden MacCachren, and Austin Weiland will pilot in the 2023 SCORE World Desert Championship and Vegas to Reno: the RZR Pro R Factory.
After becoming the youngest winner in Dakar Rally history when he claimed the T4 overall, Eryk Goczał will move up to T3 for the 2024 edition.
Javier Campos became eligible for the 2024 Dakar Rally thanks to the 2022 Rallye du Maroc effort, and has two major European rallies and a potential return to Morocco planned for 2023 to prepare.
