2025 World Rally-Raid Championship

2025 World Rally-Raid Championship
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The 2025 World Rally-Raid Championship is the fourth season of the annual competition for rally raid events sanctioned by both the FIA and FIM. The Amaury Sport Organization is in the fourth of a five-year contract to promote the championship.[1][2]

Calendar

The calendar for the 2025 season features five rally-raid events. Like the previous seasons, the Dakar Rally will once again host the opening event, while the South Africa Safari Rally was added to the calendar, replacing Desafío Ruta 40.[3][4]

Round Dates Rally name Format
1 3 January–17 January Saudi Arabia Dakar Rally Marathon
2 21–27 February United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge Rally
3 2–7 April South Africa South Africa Safari Rally Rally
4 22–28 September Portugal BP Ultimate Rally-Raid Portugal Rally
5 10–17 October Morocco Rallye du Maroc Rally

FIA World Rally-Raid Championship

  • Entrants competing in the Ultimate, Challenger, and SSV classes are eligible for the overall World Championship.[5]

World Drivers' championship

The driver who records a points-scoring classification would be taken into account for the championship regardless of the categories.

Pos. Driver DAK
Saudi Arabia 		ABU
United Arab Emirates 		ZAF
South Africa 		PRT
Portugal 		MOR
Morocco 		Points
Qatar Nasser Al-Attiyah
Saudi Arabia Yazeed Al-Rajhi
Brazil Lucas Moraes
United States Seth Quintero
France Jean-Luc Ceccaldi
France Mathieu Serradori
Lithuania Rokas Baciuška
South Africa Henk Lategan
Spain Cristina Gutiérrez
China Guoyu Zhang
Argentina Juan Cruz Yacopini
Kyrgyzstan Denis Krotov
South Africa Saood Variawa
France Sébastien Loeb Ret
Czech Republic Martin Prokop
Belgium Guillaume De Mévius
France Lionel Baud
Sweden Mattias Ekström
Spain Nani Roma
United States Mitchell Guthrie
Portugal João Ferreira
Germany Daniel Schröder
Netherlands Dave Klaassen
Spain Carlos Sainz Sr. Ret
Drivers ineligible for championship points
France Guerlain Chicherit
South Africa Guy David Botterill
South Africa Giniel de Villiers
Lithuania Benediktas Vanagas
France Christian Lavieille
South Africa Brian Baragwanath
China Wei Han
Spain Isidre Esteve
Brazil Marcelo Tiglia Gastaldi
Australia Toby Price
France Simon Vitse
Seychelles Aliyyah Koloc
Estonia Urvo Männama
Netherlands Tim Coronel
Lithuania Gintas Petrus
South Africa Mark Corbett
Lithuania Vladas Jurkevičius
France Pascal Thomasse
Netherlands Maik Willems
Belgium Stefan Carmans
France Jean Remy Bergounhe
Brazil Marcos Moraes
Czech Republic Karel Trneny
France Jerome Cambier
France Hugues Moilet
Zimbabwe William Battershill
Spain Ferran Jubany
Italy Agostino Rizzardi
France Francis Balocchi
France Ludovic Gherardi
Netherlands Rik Van Den Brink
Netherlands Ronald Van Loon
China Min Lei Wang
Andrei Halabarodzka
France Pierre Lachaume
Japan Akira Miura
France Ronald Basso
China Po Tian Ret
Italy Eugenio Amos Ret
Germany Markus Walcher Ret
Spain Laia Sanz Ret
Pos. Driver DAK
Saudi Arabia 		ABU
United Arab Emirates 		ZAF
South Africa 		PRT
Portugal 		MOR
Morocco 		Points

FIM World Rally-Raid Championship

  • Only riders competing in the RallyGP category are eligible for the FIM Rally-Raid World Championship. World Cup titles are available for champions of the Rally2, Rally3, and Quad categories.[6]

References

  1. ^ "FIA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP STATUS FOR CROSS-COUNTRY RALLYING, WITH DAKAR RALLY AS ITS CORNERSTONE; A.S.O. APPOINTED GLOBAL PROMOTER". World Rally-Raid Championship.
  2. ^ "A.S.O. ANNOUNCED AS THE FIRST EVER FIM WORLD RALLY-RAID CHAMPIONSHIP PROMOTER". World Rally-Raid Championship.
  3. ^ "2025 World Rally-Raid Championship calendar announced – Safari Rally in South Africa added". enduro21.com. 7 October 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  4. ^ "2025 FIA-FIM World Rally-Raid Championships Calendar". Cycle News. 6 October 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  5. ^ "W2RC - Dakar set to kick-start 2024 FIA World Rally-Raid Championship in January with spectacular entry". Federation Internationale de l'Automobile. 2023-12-21. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  6. ^ "FIM Documents". fim-moto.com. Retrieved 4 January 2022.