Neil Woolridge Motorsport and M-Sport are wanting to unleash their new Ford Ranger T1+ within the 2024 Dakar Rally, and Previous-Racing is raring to let others have a shot at doing so themselves. The Spanish group has a fleet of the car and can put them up for rental to those that hope to run the World Rally-Raid Championship or the FIA World Baja Cup in 2024, adopted by the Dakar Rally beginning 2025.
The Ford Ranger T1+ started growth in 2022 with plans of débuting on the 2023 Dakar Rally earlier than it was pushed again a 12 months by provide chain issues. It ran its first race on the Baja España Aragón in July, the place Nani Roma and Gareth Woolridge respectively completed sixth and eleventh total. Roma then entered the W2RC’s Rallye du Maroc in October and impressed with a third-place run.
Roma and Woolridge will proceed to race the Rangers on the 2024 Dakar Rally, which begins 5 January. The previous is a two-time Dakar Rally champion whereas Woolridge is coming into his maiden Dakar on the heels of clinching the 2023 South African Rally-Raid Championship.
NWM, owned by Woolridge’s father Neil, has produced forty-five Ford Rangers for each T1 and T1+ competitors since 2013. T1+ automobiles are extra highly effective than their T1 counterparts, boasting benefits like bigger wheels and extra suspension journey that make them the highest subcategory within the now-Final class.
Previous-Racing joined NWM on the SARRC season-ending Waterberg 400 in November, the place Daniel Alonso and Alejandro Lopez retired.
“We’re delighted to see rising curiosity from world wide for our T1+ Ranger, and we’re assured that our South African championship success, our strong outcomes internationally main as much as the Dakar Rally, in addition to our participation at this significant occasion in January, will spur on additional demand from world wide,” stated Neil Woolridge.
Moreover Previous-Racing, NWM additionally helps Wors Prinsloo‘s privateer group within the SARRC and X Rally Group within the Brazilian championship. The latter claimed the T1 FIA and T1 nationwide titles with Gunther Hinkelmann and Rodrigo Aché, respectively.
For 2024, the W2RC is 5 rounds lengthy together with the Dakar Rally whereas the World Baja Cup has eight races together with the Baja Aragón in Spain.
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