Dakar Group Spierings has fashioned a partnership with Rebel Racing for the 2025 Dakar Rally, each events introduced Sunday. Their collaboration, referred to as Rebel Spierings, will entail fielding Rebel’s Toyota Hilux in addition to two automobiles within the Challenger class from Spierings.
Spierings beforehand teamed up with Roger Grouwels to create Dakar Group Spierings RaceArt for the 2024 Dakar, the place the previous completed tenth in Challenger and the latter bowed out after midway. Grouwels has since moved on to concentrate on the Final class alongside Janus van Kasteren in 2026.
January’s Dakar was Spierings’ sixth total, third on 4 wheels, and first in Challenger. He raced on a motorcycle from 2019 to 2021 earlier than switching to an SSV out of security concern. Rebel Timepieces, the guardian firm of Rebel Racing and the official watchmaker of the Dakar Rally, has lengthy sponsored his automobiles.
“We proudly picked up our new buggies final week, and they’re now being made fully in our new type at Vughts Reclame,” reads a press release from Spierings.
Rebel Racing is primarily identified for his or her successes within the FIA World Endurance Championship, profitable six championships throughout LMP1 and LMP2 throughout the 2010s in addition to the LMp1-L class on the 2014 24 Hours of Le Mans. Regardless of plans of changing into Peugeot’s Hypercar manufacturing unit workforce, the programme was shut down after the 2020 Le Mans 24.
Group principal and Rebel Timepieces president Alexandre Pesci has saved the Rebel Racing identify alive since then by racing the Dakar. Pesci and former Rebel LMP1 driver Romain Dumas respectively completed thirty-second and fourteenth within the Final class on the newest Dakar.
The 2025 Dakar Rally is scheduled for 3–17 January.
