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2024 Desafio Ruta 40: From The Checkered Flag’s Newsroom
Round 4 of the World Rally-Raid Championship took place in Argentina with the Desafío Ruta 40 YPF INFINIA.
Didn’t follow The Checkered Flag‘s daily coverage? Here’s an archive of our stories just for you.
Pre-race stories
4 September 2023: TCF‘s 2023 Desafío Ruta 40 newsroom 9 October 2023: Road to Dakar returns for 2024 26 January: TCF‘s 2024 Dakar Rally newsroom 14 February: Desafío Ruta 40 bumped up a day 5 March: TCF‘s 2024 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge newsroom 14 March: 3,213 km through Cordoba, San Juan, La Rioja 20 March: Funding woes prevent Sara Price from racing rest of W2RC, to return in Morocco 1 April: TCF‘s 2024 BP Ultimate Rally-Raid newsroom 23 April: José Ignacio Cornejo joins Hero MotoSports 11 May: Michael Docherty skipping Argentina, hopes to return for Morocco 13 May: Injuries sideline Kevin Benavides for Desafío Ruta 40 again 16 May: Ibero-American Cross Country Rally Championship to be awarded at DR 40 28 May: 115 on entry list 30 May: Route tweaked, now 1,792 km timed 31 May: Oriol Vidal sidelined with back injury 31 May: Jerome Roussel: FIA interested in South American Baja Cup, updating Stock and SSV regulationsMid-race stories
4 June: Luciano Benavides suffers partial femur fractureStage winners
| Stage | Date | Overall Cars Winner | Overall Bikes Winner | Recap |
| Prologue | 2 June | Nasser Al-Attiyah | Tosha Schareina | Recap |
| Stage #1 | 3 June | Yazeed Al-Rajhi | Ricky Brabec | Recap |
| Stage #2 | 4 June | Lucas Moraes | Adrien Van Beveren | Recap |
| Stage #3 | 5 June | Seth Quintero | Ricky Brabec | Recap |
| Stage #4 | 6 June | Nasser Al-Attiyah | Tosha Schareina | Recap |
| Stage #5 | 7 June | Yazeed Al-Rajhi | Tosha Schareina | Recap |
Overall winners
| Class | Number | Competitor | Team | Time | Recap |
| Ultimate | 202 | Yazeed Al-Rajhi | Overdrive Racing | 17:38:21 | Recap |
| Challenger | 300 | Rokas Baciuška | Can-Am Factory Team | 18:54:59 | Recap |
| SSV | 402 | Ricardo Ramilo | Scuderia Ramilo | 20:35:43 | Recap |
| RallyGP | 9 | Ricky Brabec | Monster Energy Honda Rally Team | 18:08:37 | Recap |
| Rally2 | 16 | Romain Dumontier | Team Dumontier Racing | 18:57:19 | Recap |
| Junior Trophy | 69 | Edgar Canet* | Xraids Experience | 19:10:36 | Recap |
| Veteran Trophy | 32 | David Casteu* | Xraids Experience | 20:33:03 | Recap |
| Rally3 | 67 | John Medina | Xraids Experience | 24:15:07 | Recap |
| Quad | 174 | Manuel Andújar | 7240 Team | 20:56:19 | Recap |
| Open Bike | 603 | Julián Sánchez Dabin* | Max Clean Rally Team | 25:21:08 | Recap |
| Open Cars | 650 | Jeremías González Ferioli* | Ferioli Racing Team | 20:20:41 | Recap |
| Road to Dakar | 657 | Leandro López* | HV Racing | 22:37:03 | Recap |
| Ansenuza Moto | 703 | Ariel Budassi* | Ariel Budassi | 22:34:26 | Recap |
| Ansenuza Quad | 721 | Juan José Alcorta* | Juan José Alcorta | 22:07:09 | Recap |
| Ansenuza Auto | 742 | Nicolas Stratico* | Nicolas Stratico | 243:43:04 | Recap |
| Ansenuza UTV | 741 | Jonatan Palomba* | Jonatan Palomba | 18:29:13 | Recap |
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