After winning the Sonora Rally's Dakar Dreams challenge, Ryan Nariño will technically run his first W2RC race since 2023 as he enters the Desafío Ruta 40 to earn more points on the Road to Dakar.
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A change of plans means instead of running the Desafío Ruta 40, Justin Jumet and Matthew Ransom will use the Rallye du Maroc as their Dakar qualifying race.
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Edward Ruszczyc, who did the Rallye Breslau and Fenix Rally in 2025, will now run the Morocco Desert Challenge as part of his project to get to the 2027 Dakar Rally.
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#MDC2026 #MoroccoDesertChallenge #Dakar2027 #DakarRally
CPTT regular Paulo Rodrigues wants to race the Dakar Rally in 2028, and to get there has been doing desert races like the Addax Rally and upcoming Morocco Desert Challenge.
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#MDC2026 #MoroccoDesertChallenge #Dakar2028 #DakarRally
After winning Rally3 in Portugal, Gonçalo Amaral and his brother Salvador hope to be accepted for the 2027 Dakar Rally. To get there, they also plan to run the Rallye du Maroc.
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Stepping in line with its owners, all members of MAZ-SPORTauto, the rally raid arm of the state-run Minsk Automobile Plant, have joined the dominant Belaya Rus party together.
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#RAFRR #SilkWayRally #Belarus #Беларусь #DakarRally
Aleš Loprais isn't sure if he'll race the 2027 Dakar Rally at the moment as it depends on sponsors. He's also unsure if it'll be in Saudi Arabia due to the war in the region.
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A Land Rover 110 driven by Theo van de Rijt to support Jan de Rooy's DAF TurboTwin at the 1986 Paris–Dakar Rally will be on display at the DAF Museum in Eindhoven until September.
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KTM's new 890 Adventure R Rally bike takes pages from the Dakar Rally-winning KTM 450 Rally, such as the livery and Akrapovič exhaust.
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#KTM #DakarRally
All love for Williams and the "Dandadan" collab, but that's far from the "first time ever" that "motorsport meets anime". Even the Dakar Rally beat you to it with Gerard Farrés' "Dragon Ball" SSV in 2024.
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#DakarRally #DragonBall #ドラゴンボール
With KTM X-Bow now owned by the de Mévius family, the plan is to rebrand G Rally Team into KTM X-Bow Off-Road and build production UTVs to race in the SSV category.
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Jacques Frumholtz, who raced the Paris–Dakar Rally in 1980 and 1983, died March 16 at the age of 88.
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After a frustrating Dakar Rally with X-raid in an obsolete and underdeveloped Mini, rejoining Overdrive Racing isn't out of the question for Guillaume de Mévius.,
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#DakarRally #W2RC
Luís Cidade was routinely the fastest of the five Road to Dakar entrants in Portugal, but a Stage 2 DNF opened the door for Andréa Deldossi to punch his 2027 Dakar Rally ticket.
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#RallyRaidPortugal #W2RC #Dakar2027 #DakarRally
After racing the Dakar Rally in 2013 and 2015, reigning South African Rally-Raid T1 champ Johan van Staden has bought a Red-Lined REVO+ with hopes of returning to Dakar.
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#Dakar2027 #DakarRally #SARRC #SARallyRaid #SouthAfricanRallyRaid
It wouldn't be until 1985 that the Iron Curtain raced the Dakar Rally and 1990 for the first Soviet team, but the USSR's Communist Party organ "Pravda" had already been covering it as early as 1982.
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#DakarRally #Дакар #Правда
Robbie Wallace, who finished 32nd in Rally2 at January's Dakar Rally, got a shout from former British PM Rishi Sunak in the form of a letter praising his determination.
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Enrique Carreño hopes to make his Dakar Rally debut in 2027, while navigator Diego Freire is going for his second Dakar after last racing in 2014.
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Juraj Varga plans to return to the Dakar Rally in 2027 as an SSV driver. He last raced Dakar in 2024 before the Quad class was dropped.
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#Dakar2027 #DakarRally
Jan Brabec saw MIM-104 Patriot systems aimed at Iran while returning to the bivouac during the 2024 Dakar Rally. 2 years later, amid the ongoing war in the region, he now gets why they were there.
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#DakarRally #DakarInSaudi #SaudiArabia #Iran
For January's Dakar Rally and Classic, X-raid Team and delta4×4 built a special kit for use on their MAN TGE service vans. The setup is now available for the public.
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#Dakar2026 #DakarRally #DakarClassic #MAN #MANTGE
The ASO has closed its workshop in Louviers, which had been used to work on the organization's Dakar Rally vehicles for over 40 years.
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Guy Albaret, who ran four of the first five Dakar Rallies and finished fourth in 1982, has passed away.
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Lithuanian prime minister Inga Ruginienė and her cabinet welcomed their country's Dakar racers on Wednesday, including Stock and Classic winners Rokas Baciuška and Karolis Raišys.
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#Dakar2026 #DakarRally #DakarClassic #Lithuania #Lietuva
While visiting the site of his dad's fatal Dakar Rally accident in 2005, Gioele Meoni found a remnant of the fairing from Fabrizio's KTM 660 that came off in the crash and stayed there for 20 years.
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On Tuesday, Gioele Meoni showed off the 22 motorcycles that his family's raced over the years, such as his father Fabrizio's Dakar Rally machines and his upcoming Italian Motorally bike.
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2026 marks the 40th anniversary of Tatra's Dakar Rally debut. The manufacturer plans to host special events in May to celebrate.
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#DakarRally #Tatra #TatraTrucks
Bernadette Sacy, a rally and raid driver who won the 1981 Paris–Dakar's Ladies Trophy alongside Monique Delannoy, has passed away. She was 74 years old.
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With February 24 marking the 4-year mark of Russia's full-scale invasion, Dakar veteran and Ukraine supporter Benedikas Vanagas urged for Europe to be cognizant of future developments.
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#DakarRally #Lithuania #Lietuva #Ukraine #України
