{"id":4802,"date":"2024-02-23T14:58:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T14:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/?p=4802"},"modified":"2024-02-23T14:58:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T14:58:57","slug":"cfmoto-will-compete-in-the-2024-dakar-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/?p=4802","title":{"rendered":"CFMOTO Will Compete in the 2024 Dakar Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 8, CFMOTO officially claimed\u00a0that it will compete in the Dakar Rally on January 5, 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4804\" src=\"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"795\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z1-327x218.jpg 327w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z1-100x68.jpg 100w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After five years of development,\u00a0<strong><b>CFMOTO Thunder Racing Team<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0will finally make their\u00a0<strong><b>Dakar Rally<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0debut in 2024 as part of a programme that will take them across nearly the entire\u00a0<strong><b>World Rally-Raid Championship<\/b><\/strong>. Team manager\u00a0<strong><b>Antanas Kanopkinas<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0will race at Dakar on his CFMOTO CFORCE 1000 in the Quad category.<\/p>\n<p>CFMOTO C-Force 1000\u00a0features a V-type\u00a0two-cylinder four-stroke 963cc water-cooled engine producing 79 horsepower at 7000 RPM, a CVT transmission and manual switching of two\/four-wheel drive modes.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4805\" src=\"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z2-327x218.jpg 327w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z2-100x68.jpg 100w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Quad bikes will follow exactly the same course and route as two-wheelers, cars, trucks, etc. However, quad\u00a0bikes\u00a0are a niche category in any rally, including the Dakar Rally, with only 10 quad riders registered for the 2024 Dakar. And except for a\u00a0CFMOTO model, the remaining nine models\u00a0are\u00a0YAMAHA\u00a0Raptor 700s. The Dakar Rally set up its first quad bike class after moving from North Africa to South America in 2009, and the YAMAHA Raptor 700 dominated all 15 quad bike champions since the first quad bike\u00a0match, and the CFMOTO\u00a0really\u00a0independently\u00a0compete with\u00a0YAMAHA\u00a0this time.<\/p>\n<p>Four-wheelers will follow exactly the same course and route as two-wheelers and cars and trucks. But four-wheelers are a niche category in any rally, including the Dakar Rally, and only 10 quads have registered for Dakar 2024. In addition to one Spring breeze, the remaining nine cars are Raptor 700 from Yamaha. With the Dakar Rally having its first quad division since it moved from North Africa to South America in 2009, the Yamaha Raptor 700 has dominated all 15 quad races since its inception, and the Spring Breeze is truly challenging Yamaha\u2019s dominance this time around.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from\u00a0the Dakar Rally from January 5 to 19, CFMOTO\u00a0is expected to compete in four of the five W2RC sub-races in 2024, namely the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge in February, the Rally Across the Iberian Peninsula in April and the Rally Morocco in October.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-4806\" src=\"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"797\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z3-327x218.jpg 327w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z3-100x68.jpg 100w, https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/z3.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 8, CFMOTO officially claimed\u00a0that it will compete in the Dakar Rally on January 5, 2024. After five years of development,\u00a0CFMOTO Thunder Racing Team\u00a0will finally make their\u00a0Dakar Rally\u00a0debut in 2024 as part of a programme that will take them across nearly the entire\u00a0World Rally-Raid Championship. Team manager\u00a0Antanas Kanopkinas\u00a0will race at Dakar on his CFMOTO&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,179],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4807,"href":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4802\/revisions\/4807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalautosources.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}