LOEB FrayMédia Motorsport, in partnership with RZR Factory Racing, will be a five-car effort as they go for their third straight Dakar Rally SSV win in 2026. The same trio from 2025 of winner Brock Heger, 2024 champion Xavier de Soultrait, and Florent Vayssade are back while Gonçalo Guerreiro and Johan Kristoffersson come aboard.

Kristoffersson is arguably the greatest rallycross driver of all time, having won eight FIA World Rallycross Championships including every year since 2017. He also claimed the Extreme E title in 2021 and 2023, while winning one of the Extreme E Final Lap races in October.

Come January, he’ll see if his skills can translate to rally raid in his Dakar debut. Kristoffersson is a Polaris-sponsored athlete who’s done events with the manufacturer. Ola Fløene will serve as his navigator.

Guerreiro moves from the Challenger class to SSV. The CPTT star finished second in Challenger at his maiden Dakar in January, driving a Taurus T3 Max for Red Bull Off-Road Junior Team. Since then, he’s continued in the Portuguese championship while making sporadic starts in the W2RC and FIA Baja Cups for Nasser Racing. He won the BP Ultimate Rally-Raid Portugal for Challenger in September. Maykel Justo will be his co-driver for Dakar.

Soultrait and Vayssade have been with the Loeb team since it was known as Sébastien Loeb Racing in 2022. The former won the 2024 Dakar in SSV while his 2025 race was overshadowed by mechanical issues that relegated him to 21st despite a stage win. Vayssade finished 26th.

Heger has been Polaris’ darling since entering the UTV racing world. Competing for RZR Factory Racing in American desert racing, he enjoyed a legendary seven-race win UTV streak that included the 2024 Baja 1000, 2025 Dakar Rally, King of the Hammers’ Toyo Tires Desert Challenge and Can-Am UTV Hammers Championship, Mint 400, San Felipe 250, and Baja 500. The run came to an end at the Vegas to Reno in August, though he hopes to start another streak after claiming the Baja 400 in September and carrying momentum into the Baja 1000 later this month.

Martin Bonnet, Nicolas Rey, and Max Eddy Jr. respectively return as navigators for Soultrait, Vayssade, and Heger. Eddy also drives for RZR Factory Racing in SCORE.

SLR rebranded to LOEB FrayMédia Motorsport in July. RZR Factory Racing is Polaris’ works racing division that mainly operates in North America but maintains close relations with the Loeb camp.

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