Two-time Dakar Rally winners Toby Value and Sam Sunderland will swap from the motorbike class to make their T1+ automobile debuts on the 2025 version in January, becoming a member of forces on the wheel of an Overdrive Racing Toyota Hilux.
Value, who has been left and not using a trip within the basic rally raid following the choice from KTM to not renew his contract for 2025, has lengthy been linked to a transfer into the automobile class, having contested the well-known Finke Desert Race in his native Australia.
Value additionally gained the Baja 400 earlier this 12 months, alongside former Supercars driver Paul Weel in a Mason.
In a put up on social media, Value – who gained the Dakar in 2016 and 2019 – mentioned: “I’m tremendous excited to announce that we’re going to Dakar in January with Overdrive Racing and going to leap in a T1+ automobile and see what we are able to do.
“The opposite excellent news is that I’ll be teaming up with a very good mate of mine, Sammy Sunderland, who will sit alongside me and we’ll see what we are able to provide you with. It’s going to be tremendous thrilling and a number of arduous work for us.
