43 drivers, 37 riders signed up for 2024 W2RC

Eighty teams will duke it out across six classes for the 2024 World Rally-Raid Championship, forty-three of which comprise the FIA categories while the other thirty-seven are in the FIM.

Twenty cars will vie for the Ultimate (formerly T1) title headlined by twice reigning champion Nasser Al-Attiyah, now at Prodrive. Al-Attiyah’s departure means Toyota’s W2RC leader is Yazeed Al-Rajhi, who finished runner-up to Al-Attiyah in 2023, and fellow Hilux driver Juan Cruz Yacopini who placed third. Toyota Gazoo Racing, the defending manufacturer’s champion, will now be represented by Seth Quintero and Lucas Moraes.

Team Audi Sport has also committed to the manufacturer’s title fight with a triumvirate of Mattias Ekström, Stéphane Peterhansel, and Carlos Sainz. With their final season under their current contract set to begin, they hope to go out on top should they ultimately not renew at season’s end. X-raid Team will pitch two Minis piloted by reigning FIA European Baja Cup champion Krzysztof Hołowczyc and Ultimate newcomer Pau Navarro.

Al-Attiyah’s new team-mate and 2022 runner-up Sébastien Loeb, along with his Bahrain Raid Xtreme team, are notably missing from the picture. Loeb has not announced his other plans for 2024 while Prodrive plans to transition to Dacia with Loeb and Al-Attiyah in 2025. Even if they do not sign up for the championship, they will at least take part in the Dakar Rally while Al-Attiyah still has other registered Prodrive allies in Cristian and Marcos Baumgart of X Rally Team.

As he moves to Ultimate, Quintero leaves behind a twelve-person toss-up for the Challenger (formerly T3) title. His fellow Americans Mitch Guthrie and Austin Jones hope to finally claim the championship after losing to Quintero at the final round in 2023. However, they face stiff competition from SSV (T4) graduates Rokas Baciuška and the Goczał family; Baciuška is the twice defending T4 champion, while Eryk Goczał won the Dakar Rally in his début in 2023 and his father Marek Goczał won in the family’s maiden T3 race in Morocco.

João Ferreira figures to be the favourite in SSV as the former T3 driver won his first start in the class at Morocco. Most of the eleven SSV entrants like Ferreira are in Can-Am Mavericks, though Michele Cinotto is in a Polaris RZR Pro R.

RallyGP, the top flight of bike racing, has ten riders registered for points. However, champion Luciano Benavides does not appear to be one of them nor is his brother and reigning Dakar winner Kevin Benavides; the former will still race with #1 in 2024. Neither Red Bull factory team at GasGas or KTM have signed up either, which excludes W2RC runner-up Toby Price, Matthias Walkner (out for Dakar due to injury), Sam Sunderland, and Daniel Sanders.

On the other hand, Monster Energy-sponsored riders comprise the entire RallyGP W2RC field via the six members of Monster Energy Honda Rally Team and four from Hero MotoSports. Tosha Schareina will now race for the title after an impressive 2023 as a Honda privateer.

Seventeen riders make up the Rally2 class headlined by 2023 winner Romain Dumontier. Tobias Ebster, the 2023 Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge victor, is the only rider of those signed up to compete solo without a team as part of the Malle Moto subcategory.

All ten Quad riders entered at Dakar, including last year’s champion Laisvydas Kancius, have signed up for the championship.

Registration for the championship closed on 13 December, though one does not have to be a points-eligible competitor to run a W2RC round. The five-race 2024 season begins with the Dakar Rally on 5 January.

FIA

Ultimate (T1)

Number	Driver	Co-Driver	Team	Vehicle	Class
200	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Mathieu Baumel	Nasser Racing	Prodrive Hunter	T1+
201	Yazeed Al-Rajhi	Timo Gottschalk	Overdrive Racing	Toyota Hilux Overdrive	T1+
202	Stéphane Peterhansel	Édouard Boulanger	Team Audi Sport	Audi RS Q e-tron E2	T1.U
204	Carlos Sainz	Lucas Cruz	Team Audi Sport	Audi RS Q e-tron E2	T1.U
205	Juan Cruz Yacopini	Daniel Oliveiras	Overdrive Racing	Toyota Hilux Overdrive	T1+
206	Lucas Moraes	Armand Monleón	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota GR DKR Hilux	T1+
207	Mattias Ekström	Emil Bergkvist	Team Audi Sport	Audi RS Q e-tron E2	T1.U
208	Martin Prokop	Viktor Chytka	ORLEN Jipocar Team	Ford Raptor	T1+
211	Guerlain Chicherit	Alex Winocq	Overdrive Racing	Toyota Hilux Overdrive	T1+
215	Denis Krotov	Konstantin Zhiltsov	Overdrive Racing	Toyota Hilux Overdrive	T1+
216	Seth Quintero	Dennis Zenz	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota GR DKR Hilux	T1+
217	Krzysztof Hołowczyc	Łukasz Kurzeja	X-raid Mini JCW Team	Mini John Cooper Works Rally Plus	T1+
221	Guillaume de Mévius	Xavier Panseri	Overdrive Racing	Toyota Hilux Overdrive	T1+
226	Saood Variawa	François Cazalet	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota GR DKR Hilux	T1+
229	Lionel Baud	Lucie Baud	Overdrive Racing	Toyota Hilux Overdrive	T1+
230	Pau Navarro	Gonçalo Reis	X-raid Mini JCW Team	Mini John Cooper Works Rally Plus	T1+
239	Aliyyah Koloc	Sébastien Delaunay	Buggyra ZM Racing	Red-Lined REVO	T1+
241	Jean-Lul Ceccaldi	Thomas Gaidella	JLC Racing	MD Optimus	T1.2
242	Marcos Baumgart	Kleber Kincea	X Rally Team	Prodrive Hunter	T1+
245	Cristian Baumgart	Alberto Andreotti	X Rally Team	Prodrive Hunter	T+

Challenger (T3)

Number	Driver	Co-Driver	Team	Vehicle
300	Rokas Baciuška	Oriol Vidal	Red Bull Can-Am Factory Racing	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
302	Eryk Goczał	Oriol Mena	EnergyLandia Rally Team	MCE-5 Taurus T3 Max
303	Mitch Guthrie	Kellon Walch	Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team	MCE-5 Taurus T3 Max
304	Marek Goczał	Maciej Marton	EnergyLandia Rally Team	MCE-5 Taurus T3 Max
305	Austin Jones	Gustavo Gugelmin	Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
308	David Zille	Sebastian Cesana	South Racing Can-Am	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
310	Michał Goczał	Szymon Gospodarczyk	EnergyLandia Rally Team	MCE-5 Taurus T3 Max
312	Nicolás Cavigliasso	Valentina Pertegarini	Wevers Sport	MCE-5 Taurus T3 Max
315	Ricardo Porém	Augusto Sanz	MMP Compétition	MMP Can-Am T3
317	Mário Franco	Daniel Jordão	Franco Sport	Yamaha YXZ1000R
318	Marcelo Gastaldi	Carlos Sachs	BBR Motorsport	MCE-5 Taurus T3 Max
329	Dania Akeel	Stéphane Duple	Wevers Sport	MCE-5 Taurus T3 Max

SSV (T4)

Number	Driver	Co-Driver	Team	Vehicle
400	João Ferreira	Filipe Palmeiro	South Racing Can-Am	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
404	Claude Fournier	Serge Gounon	BBR Motorsport	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
406	Rebecca Busi	Sergio Lafuente	FN Speed Team	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
407	Eduard Pons	Jaume Betriu	South Racing Can-Am	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
408	Yasir Seaidan	Adrien Metge	MMP Compétition	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
409	Sebastián Guayasamín	Fernando Matias Acosta	FN Speed Team	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
410	Michele Cinotto	Alberto Bertoldi	Xtremeplus	Polaris RZR Pro R
414	Cristiano de Sousa Batista	Fausto Mota	South Racing Can-Am	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
419	Sara Price	Jeremy Gray	South Racing Can-Am	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
440	André Thewessen	Dmytro Tsyro	ATS Rally	Can-Am Maverick XRS Turbo
442	Enrico Gaspari	Aku Facundo Jaton	TH-Trucks Team	Polaris RZR Pro R

FIM

RallyGP

Number	Rider	Team	Bike
7	Pablo Quintanilla	Monster Energy Honda Rally Team	Honda CRF 450 Rally
9	Ricky Brabec	Monster Energy Honda Rally Team	Honda CRF 450 Rally
10	Skyler Howes	Monster Energy Honda Rally Team	Honda CRF 450 Rally
11	José Ignacio Cornejo	Monster Energy Honda Rally Team	Honda CRF 450
14	Sebastian Bühler	Hero MotoSports	Hero 450 Rally
27	Joaquim Rodrigues	Hero MotoSports	Hero 450 Rally
42	Adrien Van Beveren	Monster Energy Honda Rally Team	Honda CRF 450 Rally
46	Ross Branch	Hero MotoSports	Hero 450 Rally
68	Tosha Schareina	Monster Energy Honda Rally Team	Honda CRF 450 Rally
88	Joan Barreda	Hero MotoSports	Hero 450 Rally

Rally2

Number	Rider	Team	Bike
16	Romain Dumontier	Team Dumontier Racing	Husqvarna 450 Rally Replica
17	Paolo Lucci	BAS World KTM Racing Team	KTM 450 Rally Replica
18	Bradley Cox	BAS World KTM Racing Team	KTM 450 Rally Replica
22	Michael Docherty	BAS World KTM Racing Team	KTM 450 Rally Replica
24	Toni Mulec	BAS World KTM Racing Team	KTM 450 Rally Replica
26	Konrad Dąbrowski	DUUST Rally Team	KTM 450 Rally Replica
28	Mathieu Dovèze	BAS World KTM Racing Team	KTM 450 Rally Replica
33	Jan Brabec	Strojrent Racing	KTM 450 Rally Replica
41	Diego Llanos	Xraids Experience	KTM 450 Rally Replica
51	Rachid Al-Lal Lahadil	Melilla Ciudad del Deporte	Husqvarna 450 Rally Replica
59	Francisco Arredondo	BAS World KTM Racing Team	KTM 450 Rally Replica
73	Charan Moore	HT Rally Raid Husqvarna Racing	Husqvarna 450 Rally Replica
76	Jean-Loup Lepan	DUUST Rally Team	KTM 450 Rally Replica
86	Charlie Herbst	Team All Tracks	GasGas 450 Rally Replica
96	Tobias Ebster	Kini Rally Racing Team	KTM 450 Rally Replica
113	Sebastián Urquía	Xraids Experience	KTM 450 Rally Replica
124	Kerim Fitz-Gerald	BAS World KTM Racing Team	KTM 450 Rally Replica

Bold – Junior Trophy
Italics – Veteran Trophy
Underscore – Malle Moto

Quad

Number	Rider	Team	Quad
170	Laisvydas Kancius	Story Racing SRO	Yamaha Raptor 700
171	Juraj Varga	Varga Motorsport	Yamaha Raptor 700
172	Alexandre Giroud	Drag’on Rally Team	Yamaha Raptor 700
173	Francisco Moreno	Drag’on Rally Team	Yamaha Raptor 700
174	Manuel Andújar	7240 Team	Yamaha Raptor 700
175	Antanas Kanopkinas	CFMOTO Thunder Racing Team	CFMOTO CFORCE 1000
176	Toni Vingut	Visit Sant Antoni – Ibiza	Yamaha Raptor 700
177	Marcelo Medeiros	Taguatur Racing Team	Yamaha Raptor 700
178	Samuel Desbuisson	Drag’on Rally Team	Yamaha Raptor 700
179	Hani Al-Noumesi	Hani Al-Noumesi	Yamaha Raptor 700