After five Dakar Rally wins in the Stock class, Akira Miura will depart Toyota Auto Body following January's race and join Toyota Gazoo Racing in Ultimate for the rest of the W2RC season. 131offroad.com/2025/12/18/a... #W2RC

Gioele Meoni and his friend Andy Winkler, whose fathers Fabrizio and Aldo did the Dakar Rally, decided to try following the path of the 2003 race's SS5. Gioele rode his dad's 2002-winning KTM 950. 131offroad.com/2025/12/18/g... #DakarRally

Baltic, now the official timekeeper for the Africa Eco Race, has created La Cap 180°, a commemorative watch to celebrate the rally. 131offroad.com/2025/12/18/b... #AER2026 #AfricaEcoRace

NASCAR great Greg Biffle, who dabbled in the Stadium Super Trucks with success and created the Sand Outlaw Series, died in a plane crash on Thursday. He was 55. 131offroad.com/2025/12/18/g... #StadiumSuperTrucks #SST #NASCAR

72 Ultimate, 36 Challenger, 41 SSV, 8 Stock, and 45 Truck crews make up the 202 FIA teams signed up for January's Dakar Rally. 131offroad.com/2025/12/18/2... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally

Gilles Girousse founded L'Oasis L'Original Classic partly because he was unhappy with the lack of respect for history that other vintage rally raids had. 131offroad.com/2025/12/18/g... #LoasisLoriginalClassic

RZR Factory Racing and its partners pitched a perfect campaign in 2025 as the top UTV at the Dakar Rally, King of the Hammers, Mint 400, Vegas to Reno and all 4 SCORE races. 131offroad.com/2025/12/17/p... #DakarRally #KingOfTheHammers #Mint400 #SanFelipe250 #Baja500 #Baja400 #Baja1000 #VegasToReno

Rear-facing blue lights are required for bike riders in SCORE races to illuminate them at night. Mason Klein is bringing one to the Dakar Rally in January, and he supports it being the norm there too. 131offroad.com/2025/12/17/m... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally #SCOREInternational #SCORE

November's Fenek Rally boasted arguably the most stacked field in race history, featuring the likes of Dakar veteran and eventual bike winner Tomás de Gavardo as well as reigning Pionniers Classic champ Rémy Chapot. 131offroad.com/2025/12/16/2... #FenekRally

WRC regular Grégoire Munster will team up with Jourdan Serderidis as his navigator for the Dakar Rally. 131offroad.com/2025/12/16/g... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally #WRC

With BRP Inc.'s president and CEO José Boisjoli set to retire, Dacia CEO Denis Le Vot will take over starting February 1, 2026. 131offroad.com/2025/12/16/d... #BRP #BRPInc #Bombardier #CanAm #SkiDoo #SeaDoo

On request by the Cross-Country Rally Commission, the FIA's World Motor Sport Council has approved the use of bolt-on deflector bars to protect windshields starting in 2026. 131offroad.com/2025/12/15/f... #W2RC

Due to issues with securing permits stemming from the government shutdown, the BLM asked for the Parker 400 to be moved up a week to January 14–18. 131offroad.com/2025/12/15/2... #Parker400 #AmericanOffRoadChampionship #AORC

Despite his successes at Dakar, Romain Dumontier will not run the 2026 race because he doesn't have a factory ride or the budget to compete as a privateer. 131offroad.com/2025/12/15/l... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally

The Dakar Rally no longer has quads but that's no problem for Senegal native Alexis Varagne, who'll do the Africa Eco Race that ends in his nation's capital before pursuing the World Rally-Raid Championship. 131offroad.com/2025/12/15/a... #AER2026 #AfricaEcoRace #W2RC

Vintage rally raider Gilles Girousse and his team will bring a loaded effort to the Africa Eco Race that includes those like the Metge siblings and 2022 Dakar Classic winner Serge Mogno. 131offroad.com/2025/12/15/a... #AER2026 #AfricaEcoRace

Since 2024, the ASO has forbidden national flags from appearing beside the competitor's name on their vehicles, ostensibly for safety reasons. That rule will remain in place for 2026. 131offroad.com/2025/12/14/n... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally

Pro UTV FI titlist Kaden Wells scored the most points of every class champion in 2025 with 530, joining Wayne Matlock (2018) and Phil Blurton (2021) as UTV drivers who won the SCORE overall title. 131offroad.com/2025/12/14/u... #SCOREInternational #SCORE #SanFelipe250 #Baja500 #Baja400 #Baja1000

Among the Ukrainian units that received a set of former Dakar Rally tires for their vehicles from Benediktas Vanagas is the 17th Brigade fighting in Kupiansk. 131offroad.com/2025/12/13/b... #DakarRally #Ukraine #України #BFGoodrich #BuiltOnBFG

A World War I-era Trailmobile ambulance wagon and supply trailer went for $9,600 at auction on Bring a Trailer on Tuesday. 131offroad.com/2025/12/13/1... #WorldWarI #WorldWar1 #WWI #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #GreatWar #Army #Trailmobile

Petr Pavel, who moonlights as a racing photographer when he isn't the president of the Czech Republic, is auctioning off photos he took at races he attended in 2025 like the Dakar Rally. 131offroad.com/2025/12/12/p... #Dakar2025 #DakarRally #WorldSBK #MotoGP #FIAETRC #NASCAR #S1GP #FMX

We turn one year old today! 131offroad.com/2025/12/12/h...

Madpanda Motorsport, who's competed in GT3 as well as vintage rallies like the last two Dakar Classics, will make their Africa Eco Race debut in January. 131offroad.com/2025/12/12/m... #AER2026 #AfricaEcoRace

For his 8th Dakar Rally, Joan Font's goal is to mentor Saudi Next Gen drivers Hamza Bakhashab and Abudllah Al-Shegawi in their Dakar debuts. 131offroad.com/2025/12/12/f... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally #SaudiNextGen

After a tumultuous election trail that included Nasser Al-Attiyah and Carlos Sainz considering joining the race, Mohammed Ben Sulayem ran unopposed and was re-elected as FIA president with 91.5% of the vote. 131offroad.com/2025/12/12/m... #FIA #FIAGA25

Maxi Schek's grandfather Herbert raced the Dakar Rally in the 1980s and '90s, while his aunt Patricia Watson-Miller was one of the top women riders. In 2026, he'll make his debut as a Malle Moto rider. 131offroad.com/2025/12/11/m... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally

Nearly 25 years after the last "Star Wars" racing game, the franchise will return to the genre in 2026 with "Galactic Racer" by the former minds behind "Burnout" and "Need for Speed". 131offroad.com/2025/12/11/s... #StarWars

With Sandra Gómez unable to make it, the 2026 Dakar Rally will be the first in history with no women racing on bikes. 131offroad.com/2025/12/11/2... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally

Fesh Fesh won't race the 2026 Dakar Rally. Instead, the plan is to build a new Tatra FF8 for the 2027 race and compete in that year's Dakar Classic with four Tatra 815s and a Porsche 911. 131offroad.com/2025/12/11/f... #Dakar2026 #Dakar2027 #DakarRally #DakarClassic

Turkmenistan's rally raid series usually only runs twice a year on holidays. Nine months after racing to celebrate Nowruz, the championship returned to commemorate the 30-year anniversary of Neutrality Day. 131offroad.com/2025/12/11/t... #Turkmenistan #RallyRaid

9× winner Toby Price thought about joining the 50th Finke Desert Race in 2026, but the Baja 500 takes place that same weekend so it "counts me out". 131offroad.com/2025/12/11/t... #Finke2026 #FinkeDesertRace #Baja500 #SCORE #SCOREInternational

15 RallyGP, 76 Rally2, and 26 Original by Motul (Malle Moto) riders comprise the FIM field for the 2026 Dakar Rally. 131offroad.com/2025/12/10/2... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally

After their SCORE Pro Moto Unlimited title defense ended with a runner-up finish, Arturo Salas and Shane Logan have parted ways with HERO Racing. The team will keep Ciaran Naran. 131offroad.com/2025/12/10/a... #SCORE #SCOREInternational

The 2026 Africa Eco Race will span 5,863 kilometers with 3,817 km in timed Selective Sections. 131offroad.com/2025/11/25/2... #AER2026 #AfricaEcoRace

Manuel Lucchese will miss the Dakar Rally in January after an accident on Monday that broke four of his vertebrae. 131offroad.com/2025/12/10/m... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally

The FIA has added a limit on how many spare turbos, gearboxes, transfer cases, and differentials that the Stock class can use in a race. Exceed that cap and you get a penalty. 131offroad.com/2025/12/10/f... #W2RC #Dakar2026 #DakarRally

Hoping to "streamline" the 1-week race format, the FIA World Motor Sport Council has voted to remove the Prologue and Power Selective Section from W2RC races in 2026. The Dakar Rally will still use it. 131offroad.com/2025/12/10/p... #W2RC

Besides the RallyGP division, Monster Energy will sponsor Honda HRC's Rally2 team of Preston Campbell and Martim Ventura for the 2026 W2RC season. 131offroad.com/2025/12/10/m... #W2RC

The new Minotor hybrid T3 will not race the Dakar Rally in January as development continues. It was supposed to compete with Stéphane Sarrazin and Luís Portela Morais behind the wheel. 131offroad.com/2025/12/08/m... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally

Daniel Sanders and his fellow FIM world champions were among the first attendees of the newly opened Racing Motorcycle Museum at the old FIM headquarters in Mies. 131offroad.com/2025/12/07/r... #FIM #DakarRally #W2RC #EnduroGP #TrialGP #MXGP

With the Saudi sun beating down on everyone, the FIA will allow drivers and navigators to wear sunglasses under their helmets when "used solely to improve visibility". 131offroad.com/2025/12/06/f... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally

With Arnas Paliukėnas resigning from the post since his son is acing, Jan Seinen has been appointed as the FIA Chair of the Stewards for the Dakar Rally. 131offroad.com/2025/12/06/j... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally #FIA

It's not often Bring a Trailer has an auction for something from the Great War, but there's a 1917 U.S. Army horse-drawn Trailmobile ambulance wagon up for grabs. 131offroad.com/2025/12/06/w... #WorldWarI #WorldWar1 #WWI #WW1 #FirstWorldWar #GreatWar #Army #Trailmobile

Wednesday marked the start of Season 1 for "Call of Duty: Warzone", and with it the return of the Polaris RZR Pro R 4 and the Sportsman XP 1000 as rideable vehicles. 131offroad.com/2025/12/05/a... #Polaris #CallofDuty #COD #Warzone #BlackOps7

75 cars and 22 trucks comprise the field for the 2026 Dakar Classic. 131offroad.com/2025/12/05/2... #Dakar2026 #DakarClassic

For 2026, the Baja Rally will award a Kove 450 Rally to the highest finishing amateur rider while Pro riders will contend for a prize money pool. 131offroad.com/2025/12/05/b... #BajaRally

7 bikes and a truck comprise the entry list for the 2026 Dakar Rally's Mission 1000. 131offroad.com/2025/12/05/2... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally #DakarFuture #Mission1000

After skipping 2025, 3× Dakar Rally Quad winner Ignacio Casale will return in 2026 behind the wheel of a Taurus T3 Max for BBR Motorsport. 131offroad.com/2025/12/05/i... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally

For their third Mission 1000 in January, KH-7 Ecovergy Team has upgraded their truck to operate on both hydrogen and electric power. 131offroad.com/2025/12/05/k... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally #DakarFuture #Mission1000

Tomáš Ouredníček wanted to race both the Dakar Rally and Africa Eco Race in 2026, but business obligations forced him to choose one race. Thus, he'll be back in Africa next month. 131offroad.com/2025/12/05/t... #Dakar2026 #DakarRally #AER2026 #AfricaEcoRace