Dakar 2023 Cars, Prototypes, SSVs, Trucks total 218

When the 2023 Dakar Rally begins on 31 December 2022, 218 autos will comprise the 5 FIA courses. The quantity is a lower from the 260 in 2022.

Seventy-two are within the T1 and T2 classes for automobiles, with the latter being for manufacturing autos just like the Toyota Land Cruiser duo of Akira Miura and Ronald Basso fielded by Toyota Auto Body that has gained T2 for the final 9 years. Because the defending total winner, Nasser Al-Attiyah will sport #200. T1 and T2’s quantity assignments vary from 200 to 299.

The Gentle Prototypes of T3 boast forty-four entries led by Francisco López Contardo. T3’s automobile numbers are within the 300s.

Forming the 400s are the SSVs in T4, with Rokas Baciuškas holding #400. Whereas the bottom quantity is often run by the reigning class victor, Austin Jones has moved as much as T3. Baciuškas completed third in T4 on the 2022 Rally earlier than profitable the class’s World Rally-Raid Championship.

Vehicles in T5 have numbers that vary within the 500s. Final yr’s winner Dmitry Sotnikov isn’t participating as his KAMAZ-master group is barred as a consequence of their involvement with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Kees Koolen completed thirteenth in 2022, however he’ll maintain #500 because the defending class W2RC winner.

The Russo-Ukrainian Struggle prompted a number of Russian entries to again out as they refused to signal the FIA’s emergency measures to sentence it. In addition to KAMAZ-master, Sergei Kariakin and Anastasiya Nifontova have additionally publicly declared their absences. However, Denis Krotov and Konstantin Zhiltosv will race in T1 underneath Israeli licences. Kariakin’s team-mate Nikita Mazepin, under sanction because the full-scale invasion started, has lengthy maintained hope of being permitted however isn’t included on the entry record.

Jones is amongst a handful of Dakar entrants who contested the Baja 1000, additionally one of many largest off-road races on the earth, this previous weekend. Toby Price and Tomás de Gavardo are competing within the Bikes. After teaming up for the 1000, Gerard Farrés and António Marmolejo will race in opposition to one another in T4, and the latter is joined by fellow Baja companion Ariel Jatón.

Others are newcomers to Dakar reminiscent of Spanish Rally Champion Sergio Vallejo, FIA European Cup for Cross-Nation Bajas champion João Ferreira, Eurol Rally Sport mechanic-turned-driver Nico Stijnen, 17-year-old Polish drifting champion Eryk Goczał, and twins Aliyyah and Yasmeen Koloc. Rally Raid Estonia, a brand new group to the rally, has a pair of débutants in Urvo Männama and Toomas Triisa. Triisa and Luis Diaz Soza certified by way of the Highway to Dakar programme that rewards excellent rookies in choose races with invites.

Mixed with the 144 riders in the Bike and Quad classes and the 91 entries in the Dakar Classic, there are 453 whole contributors.

Entries

T1/T2 (Automotive)

T3 (Gentle Prototype)

T4 (SSV)

T5 (Truck)