Sandra Gomez becomes Fantic factory rally rider
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FIM Trial and Enduro star Sandra Gómez has signed with Fantic Rally Team, and will run the Rallye du Maroc and 2025 Dakar Rally on a Fantic XEF 450 Rally.
With severe and deadly flooding in Central Europe and their native Czech Republic, Tomáš Vrátný and the new Tatra FF7 truck will not race in Morocco. Fesh Fesh will still be at the rally to support their bike rider Adam Peschel.
Saood Variawa has been sidelined for the World Rally-Raid Championship’s season finale due to a concussion he sustained during testing for the Phakisa 400.
A year after being rejected for the Dakar Rally, Justin Gerlach sat down with The Checkered Flag for another conversation, this time with his ticket to the 2025 race in hand.
Ten years after his last Dakar Rally, Piotr Beaupre will make his fifth start in the race in an SSV for bike regular DUUST Rally Team.
Fidel Castillo Ruiz’s 2024 FIA European Baja Cup hopes are basically over as he will skip the Baja TT Sharish Gin due to the broken collarbone he sustained in Hungary, though he expects to be in the car again soon.
Bryce Menzies has won every Baja 400 since 2021, and his latest win has him in a 3-man battle with Tavo Vildósola and Alan Ampudia in the SCORE World Desert Championship with the Baja 1000 remaining.
After racing a Mini at this year’s Dakar Rally, Pau Navarro will pilot a Ford Ranger T1+ from Past-Racing at the 2025 edition as well as next month’s Rallye du Maroc.
Secção de Motorismo had been receiving reports from landowners about drivers cutting their fences and knocking down gates while illegally doing course reconnaissance for the FIA European Baja Cup’s penultimate round.
After 33 years of racing and eight Dakar Rallies, Jan Brabec is set to hang up his helmet and plans to turn his Strojrent Racing team into a rider development programme.
After spending the last three Dakar Rallies with Team de Rooy, Martin and Mitchel van den Brink has switched to IVECOs from MM Technology for the 2025 edition.
Portuguese Cross-Country Champion Gonçalo Guerreiro will trade in his Polaris RZR Pro R for a Taurus T3 Max prepared by BBR Motorsport at the Baja Morocco, which will be his first desert rally.
Amidst historic flooding that has resulted in multiple deaths, the Baja Morocco later this month will go on as planned, though organisers expect tweaks to the route to accommodate.
Fresh off winning the Championship Off-Road Pro Lite title, Trey Gibbs’ first foray into SCORE is already off to a good start as he was the fastest in Trophy Truck Spec qualifying.
When the American sports world stopped in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks, SCORE opted to proceed with their penultimate race of the season in Nevada just four days later.
Mitchell deJong did not have much rust to shake off in his first real-life races since 2017, finishing first and second in NEXT EVO in Nitrocross’ season opener at Richmond.
After five years with Praga, Aleš Loprais will race an IVECO PowerStar at the Rallye du Maroc and 2025 Dakar Rally as part of a new alliance with Team de Rooy.
