Barbora Holická’s 1979 Citroën 2CV, nicknamed “Duckar” for the large rubber duck on the side and programme to support duck raising programmes, will return to the Dakar Classic next January with Lucie Engová.
The Ultimate Rally Classic by TL’O for vehicles built between 1976 and 2000 will run from late October to early November 2025, starting in France and ending in Morocco.
After making her Dakar Rally début in January, Christine GZ does not have enough funding to return to the race in 2025.
After finishing 4th in SSV in her début this year, Sara Price will return to the Dakar Rally in 2025, racing a Can-Am Maverick R with 2020 winner Sean Berriman as her co-driver.
Carlos Tatay slams FIM for not covering insurance, citing rallies as proof he isn't disabled
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Carlos Tatay, who switched from pavement bike racing to cross-country rally in an SSV due to his spinal cord injury, said the FIM refuses to provide disability insurance because his rallies are evidence that he is healthy.
Had a police raid in March not ended in tragedy, Jonathan Savel would be making his Dakar Rally début in 2025 as a Malle Moto rider, race director David Castera wrote in an email to his family.
After six Dakar Rallies together, Javi Vega’s factory deal with Yamaha has come to an end. He was the only Yamaha in the Rally2 class at the 2024 race.
Kuldar Sikk broke his spine and underwent emergency surgery after an accident while supporting Ott Tänak’s gravel crew during last Friday’s Central European Rally. It is unknown if he can heal up in time to be Benediktas Vanagas’ co-driver for the 2025 Dakar Rally.
Franck Lagorce, an Andros Trophy regular who finished 2nd in LMP1 at the 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans and has a pair of F1 starts to his name, will work alongside Africa Eco Race organisers at the 2025 edition.
Toby Price and Sam Sunderland will bring a combined four Dakar Rally bike victories to the 2025 edition, where they will share a Toyota Hilux Overdrive in their 4-wheel Dakar début.
Maria Luís Gameiro, a regular in the FIA World and European Baja Cups, will be the first Portuguese woman to race the Dakar Rally since 2009 when she enters the 2025 edition in a Yamaha from X-raid Team.
Ali Oubassidi, the first Moroccan to win the Rallye du Maroc in a 4-wheel category when he dominated the Open SSV class, hopes to take his skills to Saudi Arabia for the Dakar Rally in 2026.
Souad Mouktadiri, who has competed in a variety of races from the Africa Eco Race to those on the World Rally-Raid Championship, will enter the Dakar Rally in 2025. She will be the first Moroccan to race the event in a side-by-side.
Fresh off completing the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship, Juan Cruz Yacopini will race a Toyota Hilux fielded by Puma Energy Rally Team at his fifth Dakar Rally in 2025.
Longtime rally driver Sanjay Takale will be the first Indian to compete at the Dakar in a car when he makes his Dakar Classic début in 2025, driving a Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ78 for Compagnie Saharienne.
Rokas Baciuška, the newly crowned World Rally-Raid Challenger Champion, heard some rumours suggesting the 2025 Dakar won’t take place due to the wars in the Middle East. It’s the first time fellow Lithuanians Benediktas Vanagas, Antanas Juknevičius and Vaidotas Žala heard the chatter; sentiment holds that while not impossible, it’s just hearsay for now.
Three years after his début, Ukrainian and world land speed record holder Serhii Malyk is looking to race the Dakar Classic again in 2025 with his Renault Kerax D-50. His team will be dubbed Spirit of Ukraine after the electric bike he built for the Bonneville Salt Flats in 2019.
