Aliyyah Koloc would possibly solely be nineteen however she already has a really numerous racing portfolio that spans a number of disciplines and surfaces. This can proceed in 2024 when she pursues the World Rally-Raid Championship and FIA Center East Baja Cup within the off-road realm in addition to the 24H Collection on pavement.
“It’s not straightforward to alternate between off-road rallying and circuits, however I get used to it,” Koloc commented. “It turns into simpler every time to rapidly change and adapt to a really totally different automobile that I’m about to race in. It’s all a matter of not transferring dangerous habits from the terrain to the circuits and vice versa.”
Her calendar started with the W2RC’s Dakar Rally in January, the place she ran her maiden Dakar within the top-level Final class after making her début in 2023 in a side-by-side. Racing a Purple-Lined REVO T1+, she suffered a entrance axle failure in Stage #2 that dropped her down the order early on, however managed to complete twenty-fifth in Final with a finest stage outing of twenty-fourth in Stage #5.
This weekend, a month after the Dakar, Koloc entered the Center East Baja Cup’s season-opening Saudi Baja and positioned fifth in Final. She will likely be going for her second championship within the four-race sequence after profitable in 2022.
In two weeks, she returns to the W2RC for the Abu Dhabi Desert Problem. She scored a category podium on the 2023 version when she completed third in T3 (now Challenger). The W2RC consists of 5 rounds whole.
The 24H Collection season opener and Koloc’s first pavement race of the yr will happen on 23/24 March on the 12 Hours of Mugello, as soon as once more sharing a Mercedes GT4 with Adam Lacko and David Vršecký. The trio completed runner-up within the GT4 championship final yr with a category win on the 12 Hours of Spa.
In whole, she may have run over eleven thousand kilometres in 2024.
“The extra racing kilometres she will get below her belt, the higher she is going to familiarize yourself with the automobile, which ought to enhance her outcomes,” mentioned her father Martin Koloc, whose Buggyra ZM Racing workforce is fielding Koloc’s automobiles in all three sequence. “Beginning within the Center East championship is a vital preparation for the following Dakar, as that is the form of terrain the occasion is run on. After which there are the circuits the place Aliyyah has additionally already established herself as an excellent racer. She has an especially busy season forward of her, however simply taking part within the races will carry additional profession development.”
Koloc boasts a résumé that additionally contains the FIA European Truck Racing Championship and the NASCAR Whelen Euro Collection.