Results from the 2025 Rallye Du Maroc, the final World Rally-Raid Championship round of the season – Monster Energy Honda HRC Rally Team claim a one-two as Ricky Brabec goes fastest from Tosha Schareina.  

The 26th edition of the Rallye du Maroc began with a prologue just outside Fez, Marocco, giving the fastest competitors the opportunity to choose their starting positions for Stage 1.

American Ricky Brabec left California over a month ago to compete in the last two rounds of the world championship and took victory in the 19km prologue, three years after his last success in the race on stage 4 in 2022 but in a rally which has seen just two Honda-mounted winners in the modern 450-era of the sport.

Brabec has never won the Rallye du Maroc, but the Californian has already secured two podium finishes (2018, 2022), finishing in the top five a total of four times, including in 2019 and 2021.

Ricky Brabec: “First day in Morocco is good, got the win of the prologue so it’s really nice. Got good confidence for the bike with the team moving forward. We’re happy and I think we have a good spot for tomorrow to choose from, so let the racing begin.”

The factory Honda rider clocked 12'48” and finished ahead of the prologue specialist, his teammate Tosha Schareina by just +1”. The two factory KTM riders, Daniel Sanders (+5”) and Luciano Benavides (+10”), finished narrowly behind the two Hondas on this opening test which gives all-important start position choices for the stage ahead.

With the choice being anywhere in the top 14, Brabec starts day one in 14th with his rivals in results order in front of him – Schareina 13th, Sanders 12th etc.

Rally 2

In Rally2, Michael Docherty also returned to winning ways, having not won a stage in Morocco since 2023 (stages 2 and 4). The South African set the fifth fastest time (13'03”), also one second ahead of his closest rival, KTM rider Edgar Canet. Tobias Ebster (Hero MotoSports) completed the day's podium (+21'‘).

In Rally3, Thomas Zoldos (Aub'Moto), the category winner in Portugal, took the win (14'33”) ahead of Noa Sainct (Nomade Racing, +8”) and Carlo Cabini (RS Moto, +1'48”). All three are new to the Rallye du Maroc.

Stage 1, between Fez and Erfoud, will be like a Dakar day with a distance (779 km, including 298 km of special stage) and its location in the Oriental province, which was also used during the last Dakar rallies in Africa.

Results, Prologue (moto category):

Photo Credit: Honda HRC Rally Team | DPPI + Edo Photo