Adrien Van Beveren has agreed to a two-year contract with Monster Vitality Honda Rally Group, retaining him on a Honda CRF450 Rally for the 2025 and 2026 World Rally-Raid Championships and Dakar Rallies. He introduced the information on Saturday.
Van Beveren is at present third within the W2RC RallyGP standings with one race remaining. He kicked off the season with a career-best end of third on the Dakar Rally, notching two stage wins and at last breaking onto the rostrum after arising quick in his earlier eight tries. Honda skipped the Abu Dhabi Desert Problem earlier than returning for the BP Final Rally-Raid, the place he gained the ultimate stage however narrowly missed the rostrum in fourth (although he was third amongst points-eligible riders), adopted by one other third on the Desafío Ruta 40.
He trails factors chief Ross Department by sixteen factors and Honda team-mate Ricky Brabec by seven going into the season-ending Rallye du Maroc. Van Beveren completed seventh on the 2023 version.
The Frenchman joined Honda in June 2022 after Yamaha shuttered their manufacturing unit rally raid programme following that 12 months’s Dakar Rally. He completed fourth general in his maiden W2RC begin on the Rallye du Maroc earlier than profitable the season-ending Andalucía Rally. 2023 noticed him win at Abu Dhabi en path to a 3rd within the championship, the best ending Honda rider.
Honda at present fields 5 bikes in RallyGP for Van Beveren, Brabec, Skyler Howes, Pablo Quintanilla, and Tosha Schareina. Save for his or her absence at Abu Dhabi, the marque has gained all three of their entered rounds in 2024 together with a 1–2–3–4 on the DR 40 led by Brabec; Brabec additionally gained the Dakar Rally whereas Schareina claimed the BP Final Rally-Raid. Enetering Morocco, Honda leads Hero within the producer’s standings by twenty-two factors.
