Motor Sports

Alexander Chepurkó, the 2023 World Rally-Raid Championship runner-up in the Rally2 category, was in Israel when Iran launched its attack on Tuesday and witnessed the air defence systems at work.

With only enough budget for the 2025 Dakar Rally, Guillaume Chollet will play it safe by not entering the upcoming Rallye du Maroc so he can invest it into January’s race.

The 57th SCORE Baja 1000 will be an 869.13-mile loop starting and ending in Ensenada, a layout fairly reminiscent of that used in 2015.

Former Audi driver Mattias Ekström has rounded out M-Sport Ford’s four-car 2025 Dakar Rally programme, where he will drive the new Ford Raptor T1+.

As František Brutovský continues to heal from his fractured vertebra sustained at the Hungarian Baja, he will not be able to make his Dakar Rally début in 2025.