Ready for a new season

Team de Rooy will participate in the upcoming Dakar Rally with a strong line-up and renewed Powerstars!

✋🏼 Introducing our racing drivers 🤚🏼

Announcing racing drivers for our new team setup, and we will later introduce the entire crew and setup for this season in more detail.

Ales Loprais

Ales Loprais will (re-) join the team and is an extremely experienced pilot who has competed many times successfully in the Dakar Rally.

Ales will participate this year in Rallye du Maroc as preparation for the upcoming rally in Saudi Arabia.

Vaidotas Žala

New to the team is Vaidotas Žala, he is a well known Lithuanian rally and rally raid pilot who will try his luck in the truck category.

During testing Vaidotas has proven to be a great pilot and instantly got the right feeling for the rally truck. He impressed us with his driving skills and techniques.

Anja van Loon

Last but surely not least: Anja van Loon. She doesn’t need any further introduction after her first class performance during the Dakar in 2024.

Anja will join Team de Rooy for the upcoming rally in Saudi Arabia.

IVECO Powerstar

Team de Rooy will race with the well known IVECO Powerstar model year 2024.

We have designed a complete new chassis, increasing its strength while reducing overall weight.

Furthermore, the truck’s new cooling system for both engine and gearbox have been optimized by integration of the gearbox radiator into the system.

Thus improving the overall cooling capacity while reducing even more weight.

The Powerstars are powered by the FPT Industrial’s CURSOR 13 engine which enjoys the latest technical updates. FPT Industrial will continue to support Team de Rooy during the 2024 season and Dakar Rally 2025. This will mark the successful and long-lasting partnership with FPT Industrial.

Our longstanding partnerships with Goodyear tires, IVECO Schouten, Allison Transmission and Sisu Axles are ongoing for the 2025 season.