It’s not a rally raid version of the vehicle (yet), but the KTM X-Bow name will be used for G Rally Team’s newest program. On Wednesday, the team announced the creation of “KTM X-Bow powered by G Rally Team”, which will make its debut at the 2026 Dakar Rally before running the full World Rally-Raid Championship.

Puck Klaassen and Charles Munster will race under the X-Bow name in the Challenger class, though they’ll be in the team’s G-ECKO T3 cars.

Klaassen is doing her second Dakar Rally and third Dakar as a whole after making her debut in the 2024 Dakar Classic, and her usual navigator Augusto Sanz will accompany her. A WRC2 regular, Munster is running his first Dakar after winning the Challenger class at the Baja Aragón; Xavier Panseri will be his navigator.

The X-Bow was KTM’s attempt to produce a four-wheeled sports car, a break from their usual motorcycle production. After over a year of financial turmoil, KTM’s new co-owner Bajaj Auto decided to sell off the X-Bow to solely focus on bikes. The de Mévius family, who runs G Rally Team, is part of a consortium that bought the X-Bow in August.

G Rally Team announced a partnership with X-Bow in September, but left details vague. Guillaume de Mévius, who will race an X-raid Mini at Dakar, has been open about possibly building a rally raid vehicle with the X-Bow name. Until that becomes reality, the new project will race G Rally’s G-ECKO; introduce in 2024, the G-ECKO is the successor to their OT3.

“From the very first discussions about this project, our ambition was to line up talented drivers at the start, focusing on the next generation,” de Mévius stated. “We couldn’t have hoped for better than Puck and Charles to carry our colors from the Dakar Rally onwards. This is only the first step for KTM X-Bow and the G Rally Team, and we are already working hard on the next steps, which we will reveal during the 2026 season.”

The team will also field the G-ECKO for Kees Koolen and Lex Peters at Dakar. The former will have Jurgen van den Goorbergh, who last raced Dakar in 2021, as his co-driver while Peters is joined by Mark Salomons.

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