You can find anything these days, including the claim Thierry Sabine’s helicopter accident at the 1986 Paris–Dakar Rally was a French government shootdown. Actual Dakarians, of course, think …

The Rallye Sirocco, a new regularity rally in Morocco to help students in M’Hamid El Ghizlane and Aït Benhaddou, will be held on December 18–23. Only 15 teams will be invited to tackle the 1,…

“Punk rock and off-road racing make perfect sense together.” – NOFX lead singer and 2026 Laughlin Desert Classic grand marshal Fat Mike

To streamline logistics and the learning experience for rally raid newcomers, the 2027 Sonora Rally will be just three days long on February 11–14. It’s expected to remain on the Road to Daka…

NORRA and the Legacy Racing Association are joining forces in 2027 with a 6-race calendar, forming a desert series that races on both sides of the US/Mexico border.

As rumors ponder if the 2027 Dakar Rally will be held in northern Saudi Arabia or even be replaced by an 8-stage event in Morocco, we can at least say the Dakar Classic will follow along and be the…

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After dominating the Open class for the past few years, Ali Oubassidi can now add victory in the inaugural Rallye du Maroc Classic.

With Rally2 removing your worst result if you run all 5 races, Toni Mulec maxes out at 90 points if he wins Abu Dhabi and drops Morocco or Portugal. Martim Ventura’s Moroccan dominance gives …

Seth Quintero’s best stage finish was only third, but attrition earned him his second straight W2RC win in a Toyota Gazoo podium sweep of the Rallye du Maroc.

It’s been an up-and-down RallyGP rookie season, but Edgar Canet is officially a World Rally-Raid Championship overall race winner.

Puck Klaassen’s Stage 1 crash opened the door for Alexandre Pinto to take the W2RC Challenger points lead in Morocco, leaving him 44 points ahead with one race to go.

After winning Challenger in Argentina, Matthias Walkner added an SSV crown in Morocco.

Mitchel van den Brink looked back at home in the cabin of a Team de Rooy IVECO, winning four of five stages to claim the Rallye du Maroc’s Truck category.

Although Stéphane Peterhansel secured his third consecutive W2RC Stock victory, his dismal Dakar Rally means he comes up short in the championship battle to Rokas Baciuška.

Christian Lavieille, back with Team Land Cruiser Toyota Auto Body for the first time since 2020, was the top driver in the Rallye du Maroc’s Open category for non-FIA classified vehicles.

Albert Martín showed up to the Rallye du Maroc on a Triumph TF 450 and dominated the Rally3 class, beating the KTM 450 EXC-Fs with ease.

Only two of three Quad riders reached the Rallye du Maroc finish, with Antanas Kanopkinas leading the way as he notched stage wins every day.

Defender Rally has dominated the Stock class all year, but Team Land Cruiser Toyota Auto Body and Yasir Seaidan wrapped up the Rallye du Maroc by beating the Defenders for the Stage 5 win.

Despite needing a brand-new clutch overnight, Axel Berrier was clutch on Friday as the Porsche 964 driver secured his first stage win of the Rallye du Maroc Classic.

Czech president and Dakar photographer Petr Pavel is in Morocco on a private trip to check out the Rallye du Maroc.

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.