The 2023 Dakar Classic, a side event to the Dakar Rally that uses pre-2000 vehicles, was claimed by Juan Morera and wife Lidia Ruba Cuartero in their 1990s Toyota HDJ80.
Two weeks after setting Dakar Rally stage records, Sébastien Loeb will hope to break the Race of Champions win record. He will team up with reigning ETCR champion Adrien Tambay to create Team France for the Nations Cup.
As the official off-road vehicle supplier of the Race of Champions, Polaris Sweden will produce the RZR Pro XP side-by-side cars for the 2023 edition, renewing their partnership with the event. Other Polaris vehicles will also be present for track work.
Nitro Rallycross returns after a holiday break to resume its second season in the icy tundra of Quebec, Canada as the series heads to Trois-Rivieres for round seven of the championship.
With KAMAZ-master not taking part, Dakar Rally T5 became a battle of IVECOs as Janus van Kasteren held off Martin Macík Jr. and the van den Brink father/son duo.
At just 18 years of age, Eryk Goczał is the youngest driver to win a Dakar Rally stage and a class overall, holding off reigning World Rally-Raid Champion Rokas Baciuška for the T4 victory.
Austin Jones, the reigning Dakar Rally T4 champion, graduated to T3 and is already a winner as he and fellow American Red Bull racer Seth Quintero held the top two.
Alexandre Giroud is the second rider to win the Dakar Rally’s Quad category in two straight years since its introduction as an official class in 2009.
The Malle Moto class, for riders with no help from teams and very few supplies provided by Dakar Rally organisers, was claimed by Charan Moore in his second try.
After being in Mason Klein’s shadow in 2022, Rally2 rider Romain Dumontier found daylight in the Dakar Rally to open 2023.
Renault Sport launched the new Renault Clio Rally3 in Andorra on Sunday which becomes the brand´s first four-wheel-drive car
Ronald Basso defeated team-mate Akira Miura for the honour of being responsible for Team Land Cruiser Toyota Auto Body’s tenth consecutive Dakar Rally victory in the T2 category.
Between the FIFA World Cup and Dakar Rally, it’s been a good two months for Argentinian RallyGP rider Kevin Benavides, who won the final stage to claim his second Dakar victory.
The longest Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia, metaphorically and literally, ended Sunday after fourteen gruelling stages.
Upon returning to Spain, Carlos Sainz revealed his Dakar Rally crash in Stage 9 has left him with fractured T5 and T6 vertebrae. He did not give a timetable for his recovery.
Nasser Al-Attiyah is now a 5× Dakar Rally Cars overall winner. While Sébastien Loeb won seven stages to Al-Attiyah’s three, the latter’s consistency and the field’s misfortunes boosted him to the top of T1.
The entry list for next month´s Rally Sweden is now officially out
