The fifth leg of the 2024 Rallye du Maroc was the ultimate shot for these contending for World Rally-Raid Championships. For some who trailed getting into Friday like Yazeed Al-Rajhi, it was too little, too late. For others like Yasir Seaidan, it was sufficient to go away Morocco with as champion.
Al-Rajhi entered the ultimate stage with maybe an impossibly tall order as he wanted to make up 21:21 on Nasser Al-Attiyah. Though Al-Attiyah had his worst outing of the rally in eighth, so did Al-Rajhi as he completed fifteenth.
Romain Dumontier‘s Rally2 title defence additionally got here up quick. After getting into Morocco because the factors chief, he had little reply for Bradley Cox and a disastrous Stage #4 doomed his probabilities. Even beating Cox for third on Friday and the category stage win amongst points-eligible riders was not sufficient to make up the hole.
In distinction, Seaidan stepped up his sport to formally leapfrog Sebastián Guayasamín for the SSV title. As Fidel Castillo Ruiz gained the stage in his return to racing after his damaged collarbone in August, Seaidan trailed by thirty-eight seconds to high the W2RC drivers. Guayasamín was seventh outright (second for factors drivers) and eleven minutes again of Seaidan.
Rokas Baciuška “celebrated” his Challenger championship, which he clinched after Stage #3, by having a mechanical failure simply fifty-three kilometres into the stage. Within the meantime, Tauruses concluded a dominant rally with their second 1–2–3–4–5–6–7–8 end led by Michał and Eryk Goczał. Baciuška’s retirement meant no Can-Am Mavericks completed within the high ten on the final day as João Dias and Lionel Baud rounded out the order of their G Rally OT3s.
Ross Department completed fifth to safe the RallyGP title. Tosha Schareina gained the leg whereas Daniel Sanders was sixth, nevertheless it was not sufficient to move Sanders for the rally win.
The Quad championship was already wrapped up in Argentina, leaving the rally to be a duel between Kamil Wiśniewski and Antanas Kanopkinas for bragging rights. Wiśniewski suffered an early drawback on his quad that allowed Kanopkinas to dominate the remainder of the best way and move him for the general.
Edgar Canet scored the Rally2 stage win forward of Thursday’s winner Harith Noah. Carter Klein, a W2RC newcomer who’s the present SCORE Worldwide Professional Moto Limitless factors chief and youthful brother of 2022 Rally2 champion Mason Klein, impressed with a sixth.
Coming off being the quickest automobile on Thursday, Carlos Sainz set the fifth quickest time amongst everybody in his Experimental-class Ford Raptor T1+. Crew-mate Mattias Ekström retired after hitting a gap, prompting co-driver Emil Bergkvist to go to a hospital for analysis.
“I nonetheless really feel very sore, however fortunately, Mattias and I are okay,” commented Bergkvist.
