Eurol Rally Sport will be racing different IVECO trucks at the 2025 Dakar Rally. Martin van den Brink and his son Mitchel van den Brink announced their alliance with MM Technology on Saturday, parting ways with Team de Rooy after three years together. Both drivers will be in identically prepared IVECO PowerStars.
MM Technology, led by Martin Macík Jr. who won the Truck category in the latest Dakar, has expanded their operations by selling the winning IVECO to Firemen Dakarteam and building two trucks for the van den Brinks. Eurol Rally Sport will handle the preparation of the vehicles in-house once they are delivered from MM’s shop in the Czech Republic.
While both MM and de Rooy use the PowerStar, Martin noted that they are “otherwise incomparable” with MM Technology having different concepts. Mitchel mentioned that the Macík truck is “1000 kilograms lighter but also highly reliable.”
Mitchel finished third at the 2024 Dakar in his PowerStar, standing on the class podium with Macík. It was his fourth Dakar as a driver after starting in 2021. Martin, with sixteen Dakars under his belt, will return to an automatic PowerStar for the 2025 rally after issues with a manual transmission in 2024.
The team’s trucks were put up for sale in March as they prepare for the 2025 Dakar Rally in January. Eurol Rally Sport, previously Mammoet Rallysport, became sponsored by Eurol Lubricants in 2022 and switched to IVECOs from Team de Rooy for the 2022 Dakar.
Testing for the 2025 Dakar Rally will begin in Morocco in early October as the team aims to compete for victory with their top equipment. The team is excited for the challenge ahead and proud of their amateur status among factory teams.
