Tosha Schareina has dominated the Baja Aragón in recent times, winning the bike overall every year since 2022. However, he will not be going for a fourth consecutive victory in 2025 as he’ll instead be competing in the Rally dos Sertões for the first time.

He plans to be back in Aragón for 2026.

With a four-month break between World Rally-Raid Championship events, Schareina decided to spend the summer trying out a different rally from his usual stomping grounds back home. The Sertões Rally is the biggest rally raid in Brazil, where Honda also operates a regional factory team.

Honda Racing Brasil has six riders entered for the 2025 race including Schareina. He’s also joined on the team by 2023 W2RC Rally2 champ Romain Dumontier and Martin Duplessis in the Rally Moto 1 class, Bruno Crivilin in Rally Moto 2, Tiago Luiz Wernersbach in Moto 3, and Alexandre Valadars in Moto Brasil. Former W2RC rider Mason Klein and Gabriel Soares put two of the team’s bikes on the overall podium in the 2024 rally.

“Many people from Spain are asking me if I will finally be in the Baja Aragon. You know it’s one of my favourite races but this year we go to Brazil,” wrote Schareina on Wednesday. “It hurts me a lot not to be with you all for the weekend but next year I will be back.”

By forgoing Aragón, Schareina certainly misses out on a chance to four-peat but his 2024 victory had already set the record for most consecutive bike wins in race history.

The Rally dos Sertões begins with the Prologue on Saturday, while the Baja Aragón’s first day of racing is Friday.

After Sertões, Schareina will finally return to his native Spain when he competes in the W2RC’s BP Ultimate Rally-Raid in September; he won the inaugural edition last year. Three races into the 2025 championship, Schareina sits fifth in points. He crashed out of the most recent event in South Africa in May, resulting in a hand injury that’s healed in time for Sertões. The Spaniard finished second at the Dakar Rally and third at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge.

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