History and highlights of our team throughout time 📝
from new to old…
2026
2025
2023
Becx wins Rallye du Maroc
🥇 Becx Competition Team de Rooy FPT 🥇
Michiel Becx, Edwin Kuijpers and Wuf van Ginkel win the 2023 edition of Rallye du Maroc 💪🏼
First Ladies team at Dakar
Ladies team de Rooy FPT is started, for the first time in history we will compete with a-full-womens’-equipe.
Janus van Kasteren
wins Dakar!
Equipe Boss Machinery Team de Rooy IVECO; Janus van Kasteren, Darek Rodewald & Marcel Snijders win Dakar 2023. Read more…
2021
August 26, 2021
Ton van Genugten
This shocking news hit us very, very hard and we still remember Ton daily in our wWorkshop and hearts.
2016
januari 15, 2016
Second Dakar win
driver Gerard de Rooy
mechanic Darek Rodewald
navigator Tom Coulsoul
Ranking: 1st place
time:
2012
januari 12, 2012
First Dakar win
driver Gerard de Rooy
mechanic Darek Rodewald
navigator Tom Coulsoul
Ranking: 1st place
time:
2001
december 30, 2001
First time
Le Dakar 2002
Arras to Madrid
driver Jan de Rooy
mechanic Gerard de Rooy
navigator Tom Coulsoul
truck DAF FAV CF85 4×4
ranking 6th place
time 79h42m65s
July 5, 2001
Team de Rooy 2.0
Gerard de Rooy wants to learn from his fathers’ experiences and to race in a truck of his own (build). All year they’ve worked to prepare a new DAF CF ready to race…
Classics, before 2000 & Present
DAF de Rooy Classics
We’ve decided to split up the entire Classics-Team into a separate entity.
Check our Classics website