Dakar News Toyota unveils new car and driver lineup for Dakar Toyota Gazoo Racing has unveiled a heavily upgraded DKR GR Hilux, as well as a new driver lineup, for its World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC) title… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon November 19, 2025 2 min
Dakar News M-Sport’s Dakar priority the reverse of WRC When, you might wonder, was M-Sport’s finest hour? Not that difficult, is it. It has to be 2017 and a historic clean sweep of the… Read more by David Evans November 14, 2025 3 min
Dakar News World Rally-Raid champion leaves Toyota for Dacia World Rally-Raid champion Lucas Moraes has moved from Toyota to Dacia to defend his title in 2026. The Brazilian became the first driver other than… Read more by Luke Barry October 21, 2025 2 min
Dakar News Al-Attiyah loses W2RC title due to 1hr10min penalty Nasser Al-Attiyah has officially lost his World Rally-Raid Championship title to Lucas Moraes, with an appeal into the result of Rallye du Moroc formally rejected. Dacia… Read more by Luke Barry October 18, 2025 2 min
WRC News Loeb’s take on Rovanperä’s circuit racing switch If Kalle Rovanperä’s new career in single-seater racing goes perfectly, he’ll manage what fellow World Rally champion Sébastien Loeb so nearly did and race in… Read more by Luke Barry October 15, 2025 5 min
Dakar Features The brand transforming itself through off-road motorsport I want an honest answer. I want you to think back two years and tell me the first thing that came to your mind when… Read more by Colin Clark October 14, 2025 2 min
Off-Road News World Rally-Raid set for Morocco showdown This year’s World Rally-Raid Championship will come to a thrilling conclusion in Morocco this week, as Toyota drivers Henk Lategan and Lucas Moraes look to… Read more by David Evans October 11, 2025 3 min
Dakar Features Inside Defender’s game-changing rally program It’s late. Maybe it’s early. Either way, an advancing fleet of Defender 110s make for an impressive – if slightly gangster – sight. Sweeping up… Read more by David Evans October 1, 2025 5 min
Dakar News Loeb and Al-Attiyah swap navigators Dacia World Rally-Raid drivers Sébastien Loeb and Nasser Al-Attiyah have swapped navigators for the remainder of the 2025 season, as well as the 2026 Dakar… Read more by Luke Barry September 17, 2025 2 min
Dakar Features A new W2RC rival for Loeb and Al-Attiyah? The World Rally-Raid Championship title battle breathed new life last weekend as Dakar Rally runner-up Henk Lategan stormed to his maiden W2RC victory on home… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon May 28, 2025 5 min
Dakar Features Why none of M-Sport’s drivers are pursuing W2RC glory The 2025 World Rally-Raid Championship resumes in just over a week for the third round of the season, the inaugural South African Safari Rally (May… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon May 8, 2025 5 min
Dakar News Wilson: What the WRC should learn from W2RC It wasn’t so long ago that the World Rally Championship seemed to be entering a new golden age. The regulation change ahead of the 2017… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon May 6, 2025 3 min
Dakar News The debate at the center of Dacia’s start to rally-raid World Rally-Raid Championship newcomer Dacia has been riding the crest of a wave since its competitive debut in Morocco last season. Two wins from three… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon April 15, 2025 5 min
Dakar Features Slaying Dakar demons by making rally-raid history Dania Akeel was not going to make the same mistake again. This time it would be a different outcome. Having hit the lowest of the… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon March 10, 2025 3 min
Dakar News Loeb crashes again, new young star emerges on W2RC Abu Dhabi Barely four weeks after the completion of the Dakar Rally, the World Rally-Raid Championship returned to action for round two of the 2025 season, the… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon February 28, 2025 5 min
Off-Road News Sainz on sidelines as W2RC heads to Abu Dhabi Four-time Dakar Rally winner Carlos Sainz will sit out the second round of the 2025 World Rally-Raid Championship in Abu Dhabi as M-Sport Ford carries… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon February 20, 2025 5 min
Dakar Features Understanding Toyota’s confusing Dakar structure As true as the saying ‘calm seas never make a good sailor’ goes, Toyota Gazoo Racing will be hoping January’s Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon December 18, 2024
Dakar Features The national champion targeting Dakar success despite major surgery The last year has been something of a roller coaster for Toyota Gazoo Racing’s Henk Lategan. A fourth South African Rally Raid Championship this year… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon December 4, 2024 5 min