Defender’s Showroom-Based Race Truck Heads to Morocco, Where Stock Parts Usually Give Up

Defender Rally is finally racing in Africa. The team has entered three Defender D7X-Rs in the Rallye OLA Energy du Maroc, running 26 September through 3 October, which puts the fourth round of the FIA World Rally-Raid Championship in the Moroccan desert and puts a production-derived race truck on the continent that invented this entire genre of motorsport. The driver list is the one that has been quietly taking the Stock class apart all season. Rokas Bačiuška and Oriol Vidal arrive leading the s

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