After five rounds, the third season of the World Rally-Raid Championship has reached its conclusion in Morocco.
Missed The Checkered Flag‘s live coverage of the Rallye du Maroc? We’ve got you covered with the archive below.
Pre-race stories
- 22 October 2023: TCF‘s 2023 Rallye du Maroc newsroom
- 9 October 2023: Road to Dakar returns for 2024
- 26 January: TCF‘s 2024 Dakar Rally newsroom
- 5 March: TCF‘s 2024 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge newsroom
- 1 April: TCF‘s 2024 BP Ultimate Rally-Raid newsroom
- 11 June: 2,492 kilometres from Marrakesh to Mengoub
- 11 June: TCF‘s Desafío Ruta 40 newsroom
- 13 June: Laisvydas Kancius to navigate for Gintas Petrus at 2025 Dakar Rally
- 11 July: Sébastien Loeb on Sandrider Morocco test: “Everything is going well in the car except temperature management”
- 12 July: Ford, M-Sport unveil Ford Raptor T1+
- 1 August: Sam Sunderland retiring from racing
- 12 August: Tomás de Gavardo joins Fantic Rally Team
- 22 August: Manuel Andújar to race Morocco, 2025 Dakar Rally in SSV
- 28 August: EnergyLandia Taurus Factory Team formed
- 28 August: Route distance tweaked down to 2,468 km
- 7 September: Tomáš Vrátný on Tatra FF7: “I believe the ‘Seven’ in the name will bring us good luck”
- 10 September: Aleš Loprais partners with Team de Rooy, to race IVECO
- 14 September: Despite flooding, Baja Morocco to proceed as scheduled
- 17 September: Pau Navarro to race Ford Ranger T1+ at Morocco, 2025 Dakar Rally
- 19 September: Concussion forces Saood Variawa to miss Rallye du Maroc
- 19 September: Fesh Fesh’s Tatra FF7 skipping Rallye du Maroc due to flooding
- 20 September: Sandra Gómez becomes Fantic factory rally rider
- 20 September: Carter Klein to make W2RC debut in Morocco
- 24 September: Oriol Vidal sidelined by back injury again
- 24 September: MM Technology reveals EVO 4 truck
- 25 September: Guillaume de Mévius switching to Mini
- 25 September: Erik Van Loon set to début Audi S1, Maverick R in Morocco
- 25 September: X-raid reveals petrol-powered Mini JCW Rally 3.0i
- 25 September: Alexandre Giroud, Charan Moore join GRallyTeam, to race OT3s
- 26 September: Ndoki Racing Team set to be first Congolese W2RC team
- 27 September: 271 on entry list
- 28 September: Organisers working to prepare route following floods
- 28 September: Martin Macík Jr. christens EVO 4 truck “Benny the Big Guy”
- 28 September: “Conditions at Dakar are very specific and cannot be simulated in Czech Republic” – Martin Šoltys
- 28 September: Guillaume de Mévius on Mini switch: “I was never an official Toyota driver”
- 28 September: Rainbow Truck Team tweaks end of the rainbow
- 29 September: Luciano Benavides, Daniel Sanders migrate to KTM
- 30 September: Kees Koolen to race MM EVO 4, dubbed “Tony”
- 30 September: Nicolás Cavigliasso wins Baja Morocco ahead of Rallye du Maroc
- 30 September: Guayasamín, Seaidan set for SSV final showdown
- 1 October: Fausto Mota to serve as Baciuška’s navigator
- 1 October: Mattias Ekström joins Ford for 2025 Dakar Rally
- 1 October: Guillaume Chollet withdraws due to funding
- 2 October: Aliyyah and Martin Koloc to race together for first time
- 2 October: “All the main tracks, which used to be visible, have disappeared” – Isidre Esteve
- 2 October: Amine Echiguer sidelined by injury
- 3 October: Carla Scaglioni to make rally raid debut in Morocco
- 3 October: Nunzio Coffaro returns to rally raid
- 4 October: Cooling system failure forces Loprais, de Rooy withdrawal
- 4 October: Tjeerd van Ballegooij filling in for Gerrit Zuurmond
- 5 October: G Rally Team reveals G-ECKO
- 6 October: FIM to deliberate on adding W2RC team trophy
- 6 October: Álex Haro, Mirko Brun step up for co-driver relief duties
Mid-race stories
- 7 October: Flooding forces Stage 1, 2 route swap
- 7 October: Frédéric Baudry dies in Stage 1 crash
- 8 October: Mathieu Serradori disqualified for wheel infractions
- 9 October: João Ferreira gets time restored after GPS failures in Stage 1
- 9 October: Manuel Andújar gets 20 minutes slashed for assisting Baudry
- 10 October: EnergyLandia Team fined for liquid waste dumping
- 11 October: Jean-Loup Lepan undergoing treatment for haemopneumothorax
Stage winners
| Stage | Date | Overall Cars Winner | Overall Bikes Winner | Recap |
| Prologue | 6 October | Guerlain Chicherit | Tosha Schareina | Recap |
| Stage #1 | 7 October | Nasser Al-Attiyah | Ross Branch | Recap |
| Stage #2 | 8 October | Lucas Moraes | Tosha Schareina | Recap |
| Stage #3 | 9 October | Sébastien Loeb* | Daniel Sanders | Recap |
| Stage #4 | 10 October | Carlos Sainz* | Daniel Sanders | Recap |
| Stage #5 | 11 October | Sébastien Loeb* | Tosha Schareina | Recap |
Overall winners
| Class | Number | Competitor | Team | Time | Recap |
| Ultimate | 200 | Nasser Al-Attiyah | Dacia Sandriders | 14:26:34 | Recap |
| Challenger | 307 | Eryk Goczał | EnergyLandia Taurus Factory Team | 15:14:11 | Recap |
| SSV | 401 | Yasir Seaidan | Race World Team | 17:19:00 | Recap |
| Stock | 500 | Ronald Basso* | Team Land Cruiser Toyota Auto Body | 21:34:10 | Recap |
| Truck | 600 | Martin Macík Jr.* | MM Technology | 16:28:25 | Recap |
| Experimental Car | N/A | No Finishers | N/A | N/A | Recap |
| Experimental UTV | 406 | Francisco López Contardo* | Can-Am Factory Team | 16:05:07 | Recap |
| RallyGP | 5 | Daniel Sanders* | Red Bull KTM Factory Racing | 15:45:06 | Recap |
| Rally2 | 18 | Bradley Cox | BAS World KTM Racing Team | 16:30:11 | Recap |
| Junior Trophy | 37 | Edgar Canet* | BAS World KTM Racing Team | 16:34:13 | Recap |
| Veteran Trophy | 32 | David Casteu* | Team Casteu Trophy | 18:28:36 | Recap |
| Women Trophy | 62 | Sandra Gómez* | Fantic Rally Team | 21:17:26 | Recap |
| Rally3 | 163 | Souleymane Addahri | Africa Rallye Team | 21:25:42 | Recap |
| Quad | 182 | Antanas Kanopkinas | CFMOTO Thunder Racing Team | 22:44:50 | Recap |
| Open Car | 701 | Akira Miura* | Team Land Cruiser Toyota Auto Body | 21:00:37 | Recap |
| Open SSV | 723 | Ali Oubassidi* | Africa Rally Team | 22:29:39 | Recap |
| Open Truck | 752 | Kay Huzink* | Jongbloed Dakar Team | 21:47:45 | Recap |
