TH-Vehicles Rally Workforce and CAP 4 Racing plan to construct 5 Polaris RZR Professional R automobiles that can compete within the Dakar Rally‘s T4 class in 2024. The three way partnership made its racing début eventually week’s Baja España Aragón with Domingo Román driving the #634 and Óscar Bravo as navigator.
As their title suggests, TH-Vehicles primarily specialises in fielding vehicles. Within the 2023 Dakar Rally, the group introduced a pair of Scania vehicles for Rafael Tibau Maynou and Alberto Herrero that raced within the T5 class; additionally they ready Toyota Land Cruisers that raced within the Dakar Basic, with Dirk van Rompuy being the best general finisher there in sixth. CAP 4 Racing oversaw the EBRO electrical automobile venture that ran Dakar in 2022 and has designed automobiles able to competing within the T3.U class for prototype electrical SSVs.
Though Roman didn’t full the Baja Aragon, the venture discovered the automobile’s efficiency passable, describing it as displaying “wonderful leads to the primary kilometres of the race” whereas Roman and Bravo have been “extraordinarily glad with the simple driving and fast adaptation” to driving it. Herrero, who drove his truck in Aragon, examined the automobile on Monday.
The automobile is an upgraded 2022 Polaris RZR Professional R. It incorporates a redesigned chassis, is lighter than the usual mannequin by 100 kilograms, and boasts a bigger gasoline tank. The modifications additionally lower the chance of the automobile rolling. Donerre Suspension, Braid Wheels, Berpellet, and OMFB IBERTEC are among the many corporations concerned with the venture.
The trouble has not revealed who else will race the automobile at Dakar.
The T4 class for manufacturing SSVs has usually been dominated by Can-Am Mavericks, which received the inaugural World Rally-Raid Championship in 2022 and the Dakar Rally’s SSV class yearly since 2018. Polaris was the Dakar SSV winner in 2017, whereas Florent Vayssade was the one RZR Professional R to complete prime ten at school on the 2023 version in tenth; the producer final appeared on a podium with Patrice Garrouste and Claude Fournier ending second and third in 2018.
The 2024 Dakar Rally begins on 5 January.
