2024 Rallye du Maroc: From The Checkered Flag’s Newsroom

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

* – Not competing for World Rally-Raid Championship points

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