Can-Am Recaps Its 2025 Dakar, Including 10 Stage Wins

We dubbed Brock Heger “Mr. Consistency” for winning the 2025 Dakar Rally thanks to his regular top-three finishes in the 12 stages, despite winning just two of those stages. We have to give the award for team consistency to South Racing Can-Am. The Portuguese outfit headed by Scott Abraham fielded four Maverick R rigs, two driven by Americans Sara Price and Hunter Miller, a third by Chilean multiple-time Dakar winner Francisco “Chaleco” López, the fourth driven by Argentinian Jeremías Ferioli. These four combined to win the 10 stages that Heger didn’t win, a feat Can-Am says is a Dakar record for a UTV manufacturer.

This was the first year for South Racing taking the Maverick R to Saudi Arabia; the team’s past efforts, including six consecutive wins from 2018 to 2023, all employed the Maverick X3, Price getting that rig to a fourth-place finish in 2024.

In Can-Am’s recap of the event, Abraham says that the end of each stage is the beginning of new development. The drivers back him up in post-stage recaps, referring to changes that made the Maverick R better as the race evolved. With Polaris now having won two consecutive Dakar runnings, we’re sure South Racing is already weeks deep into an evolution program. Maybe that will include pillows in a storage compartment, which would have been handy for Price and co-driver Sean Berriman when they had to spend 26 hours in the desert after breaking down.

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