・Guy Botterill crowned as leading Rookie for Dakar 202
・Saood Variawa completes Dakar Rally at 18 years of age
・Three TGR crews in overall Top 10
・Stage victory for Lucas Moraes and Armand Monleon
・16th on stage for Giniel de Villiers and Dennis Murphy
・17th on stage for Seth Quintero and Dennis Zenz
・21st on stage for Saood Variawa and Francois Cazalet
・32nd on stage for Guy Botterill and Brett Cummings
・Lucas and Armand up into 4th overall
･New Toyota GR DKR Hilux EVO T1U ready for Dakar action
･Five-car factory team fully prepared
･Shakedown, technical checks and Prologue await
On January 19, the final stage of the 2024 Dakar Rally was held on a 174 km loop course SS (competition section) from Yanbu in Saudi Arabia. After the loop course, cars travelled on a 99 km liaison (transfer section) to the bivouac in Yanbu and finished. At this same location, the Goal Ceremony was held, bringing the 15-day rally to an end.
From January 11 to 12, the Dakar Rally 2024 proceeded with a new undertaking called “THE 48H CHRONO STAGE” near Shubaytah in southeastern Saudi Arabia. Running over two days with a 547 km SS (competition section) set in the Rub' al Khali Desert known as the "Empty Quarter", most of the road surface is soft sand. The stage includes a series of complex sand dunes that must be crossed, a serious task for a production car - this was literally the ultimate challenge of the rally.
On January 5, a 27km prologue run was held for the 2024 Dakar Rally near AlUla, a town in northwestern Saudi Arabia.
