The first day of October brought more pain and suffering for a lot of people (including Dacia despite the stage win). So many, in fact, that helicopters couldn’t accommodate everyone such tha…

Due to the ongoing war in the Middle East, K Motorsport is replacing the Dakar Classic with the Africa Eco Race Historic on its 2027 calendar.

Between Sébastien Loeb’s DNF on Tuesday and Nasser Al-Attiyah’s mechanical issues on Wednesday, wake Dacia up when September ends.

Tuesday’s Rallye du Maroc stage fell on the 22-year anniversary of Dakar legend Richard Sainct’s fatal crash. His son Noa is carrying his flame, hoping to “continue this story tha…

While the FIA cars didn’t race the Prologue alongside their 2-wheeled counterparts, the inaugural Rallye du Maroc Classic brought the 4-wheel action on Monday in its maiden stage.

Sam Sunderland’s motorcycle circumnavigation world record attempt has come to an end due to damage in the Australian outback.

Defender Rally is skipping the season-ending Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, meaning the W2RC’s Stock title battle will be decided this week in Morocco.

The return of the South African Safari Rally in 2027 will also see the race cross over into Botswana for the first time.

In contrast to the the FIA lifting its ban in August, the FIM’s Board of Directors confirmed this weekend that riders and officials from Russia and Belarus will remain barred from FIM-sanctio…

It took 7 years for Hailie Deegan to win a NASCAR-sanctioned race again, a dry spell that brought her to her off-road roots like Nitrocross and the Mint 400, but the wait finally ended Saturday.

Lou Peralta, 1989 Baja 1000 Class 10 winner and promoter for both desert racing and skateboarding, passed away Wednesday at the age of 84.

Ecurie Frères d’Armes, the French Army team fielding Dakar Classic cars for disabled veterans, will return to the Classic in 2028 with the Peugeot P4.

Buggyra will begin racing a Mercedes-Benz Zetros rally truck on a multi-year deal, competing in the 2027 Dakar Rally and Africa Eco Race.

Nasser Al-Attiyah’s W2RC pursuit resumes at the Rallye du Maroc, fresh off his third Asian Games gold medal in Men’s Skeet Team. He hopes the medal will give him momentum to qualify for…

If SJMade Fest at History Park in May and the second annual Let’s Glow! BART Anime Fest last Saturday are any proof, you really can host anime conventions anywhere.

ZXMOTO Joyride Factory Rally Team’s debut at the Rallye du Maroc will be a learning process, especially with the engine which Skyler Howes warns “needs a lot of improvement.”

A training accident means Ross Branch will not be able to run the Rallye du Maroc.

Although Tavo Vildósola’s recovery is going well, he won’t be able to heal up in time to race the Baja 1000 in November. Thus, his focus is on the Baja 250 next year.

Since equipment will be shipped on November 15, Red Bull KTM can’t just sit until December for the ASO to decide whether the Dakar Rally will be held in Saudi Arabia as planned and wants a de…

As the company prepares to build UTVs for the SSV class, G Rally Team has officially become the KTM X-Bow Lab Team. Puck Klaassen will debut the new identity at the Rallye du Maroc.

It’s been a heckuva two weeks for João Ferreira, winning the Baja Aragón and then the Baja TT Sharish Gin seven days later.

Whether you think Montreal ’07 counts, Sheldon Creed leapfrogged Robby for the 3rd most wins by an SST driver in NASCAR’s 2nd tier and most by a Dakar alum. Fitting it came at a one-off…

At last weekend’s 24 Heures Tout-Terrain de France, Juan Porcar reunited with his Range Rover V8 from the 1987 Paris–Dakar Rally after 39 years apart.

Kay and Gert Huzink’s Kuipers-Jongbloed Hybrid has rebranded to Huzink Rally Sport and formed an alliance with Team de Rooy.

To celebrate the 100th International Six Days Enduro in October, the Racing Motorcycle Museum has introduced a temporary exhibition about the historic enduro.

The 2026 Freddie March Spirit of Aviation, part of the Goodwood Revival, will honor the 90th anniversary of the Supermarine Spitfire’s maiden flight and the de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk…

271 teams—112 FIA, 132 FIM, 3 Open, and 24 in the new Classic category—are signed up for the upcoming Rallye du Maroc.

This year’s Baja Aragón differed from usual as it was moved from July due to wildfires, but it still had the same overall winners as last year in João Ferreira and Lorenzo Santolino.

After leaving Honda, Skyler Howes has linked up with ZXMOTO Joyride Factory Rally Team. He’ll make his debut at the Rallye du Maroc.

For someone who mainly races a Yamaha Ténéré in hard enduros and African rally raids, Pol Tarrés held his own in a go-kart in Max vs. 100. He was one of the last survivors until Max Verstappen got …

After just one year, snowmobiles will not return to the Winter X Games in 2027 as the organizers want to focus on skiing and snowboarding as part of the new X Games League.

October’s MotoGP round at Motegi will feature signage for the acclaimed franchise “Umamusume”, while Oguri Cap’s VA Tomoyo Takayanagi will wave the checkered flag at the Mot…

The ASO confirmed to Dakar Classic team TimeOut Racing that the 2027 Dakar Rally will still proceed as planned, but the organizers are monitoring the situation in the region.

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Flats and mechanicals plagued the Trophy Trucks in the Baja 400; Luke McMillin ran into brake problems himself, but remains undefeated in 2026. Meanwhile, Cayden MacCachren was DQ’d for reckl…

On this 25th anniversary of 9/11, let’s take a look back at when SCORE made the decision to race the Primm 300 just 4 days after the attacks.

The Racing Motorcycle Museum by FIM headquarters now has a showcase of Marelli’s electronic control units. One such ECU is the REX-120 used in motocross and Dakar.

Christopher Polvoorde put on a heater as the only driver to set a qualifying time below 3 minutes and 50 seconds, earning him his second straight pole.

Enduro star Billy Bolt and rally raider Pol Tarrés are trading in their bikes to be among the 100 drivers who Max Verstappen will try to pass in Red Bull’s new challenge next Wednesday.

Amnay Hajji wants to race the Rallye du Maroc in Rally3, but the French–Moroccan dual national has been struggling for 3 years to get a rally license from the Fédération Royale Marocaine de Motocyc…

Noa Sainct will be a Dakarian, like his father before him.

The 18th Africa Eco Race will start in Tangier and span 13 stages all the way down to Lac Rose in Dakar.

With how recognizable the Subaru Impreza WRC is, it makes sense Hot Wheels would release a bunch of them over the years. 2026 is one of those years.

UTVs are the rage in North American sports lately. The Vikings and Timberwolves signed deals with CFMOTO ahead of the NFL and NBA seasons, while the Montreal Canadiens have one with BRP Inc. brands…

After being postponed due to fires, the Hungarian Baja will now take place on November 12–15. While circumstantial, it’s a return to the fall much like the inaugural race in 2004 being held i…

At this weekend’s Baja Aragón, Andrei Halabarodzka will be the first driver to run an FIA-sanctioned international cross-country rally under the Belarusian flag since the FIA lifted its restr…

With Dacia on its way out, Cristina Gutiérrez has landed back on her feet at Santana Motor, at least for the Baja Aragón and Rallye du Maroc.

Jimmy Henderson’s NASCAR and ARCA career in the early 2000s wasn’t exactly one to write home about. Two decades later, he’s on top of the short course world as the Red Bull Crando…