Martin Koloc is Czech and a former truck racer who founded Buggyra Racing Team. Aliyyah's mother is of Seychelloise-Sudanese heritage, giving Aliyyah dual Czech and Seychelloise nationality. Her twin sister Yasmeen competed alongside her for several seasons; the two were known collectively as the Dakar Sistaz until an injury ended Yasmeen's racing career, after which Yasmeen redirected into a motorsport engineering role within the team at the age of nineteen.
Koloc began her sporting career in tennis at the age of four before a knee injury redirected her. After testing one of Buggyra's racing trucks in early 2019, she committed to motorsport with the stated goal of racing at the Dakar Rally.
Koloc entered European Truck Racing Championship competition in 2020, scoring five points from seven starts. During this period she established two truck speed records aged fifteen: 284.13 kph from a 500-metre flying start and a 500-metre standing start completed in 13.2 seconds, both in a five-tonne truck producing 1,900 bhp. At age sixteen she became the youngest driver in history to win a truck race, taking a victory at Nogaro in her debut season. In 2021 she made nineteen starts in the European Truck Racing Championship and a further twelve in the French Truck Racing Championship, where she accumulated four podiums and finished fifth with 143.5 points.
From 2022 Buggyra expanded Koloc's programme across multiple categories. She contested EuroNASCAR Pro and EuroNASCAR 2, the French GT4 Cup Silver class, and the 24H GT Series that year. In 2023 she joined the full European 24H GT Series season in the GT4 category alongside Adam Lacko and David Vršecký, winning the 12 Hours of Spa GT4 class among five podium results from five starts and finishing third in the championship with 178 points. She also scored a Middle East Trophy GT4 victory at the 6 Hours of Abu Dhabi that year. The trio returned for 2024 and won the GT4 class championship outright with two victories and 80 points.
In 2022 Koloc contested the FIA Middle East Cup for Cross-Country Bajas in the T3 class, winning one of four rounds and claiming the title with 98 points. That result qualified her for the Dakar Rally.
She completed her first Dakar in January 2023, finishing thirty-third in the T3 Light Prototypes class in a Can-Am. In parallel, she entered the FIA World Rally-Raid Championship T3 class, finishing twelfth with 34 points, including a third place at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge.
From the 2024 Dakar Koloc stepped up to the T1+ Ultimate category, the highest class in the event, driving a Red-Lined Revo+. She finished twenty-fifth at both the 2024 and 2025 editions. Her 2025 Dakar was interrupted by mechanical issues on almost every stage, including a breakdown twenty kilometres from the finish of the final stage. The 2026 Dakar, contested with navigator Marcin Pasek in a Red-Lined Revo T1+ GTR, ended in a DNF.
In the 2024 FIA World Rally-Raid Championship she appeared in selected T1+ rounds, finishing sixth at the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge and retiring in Portugal and Morocco, ending thirty-third in the standings with six points.
For 2026 Buggyra announced that Koloc would concentrate on rally raids only, citing regulatory uncertainty around next-generation Dakar car specifications. The team targeted the FIA European Bajas championship as a transitional focus while the machinery situation resolved.
Koloc founded Foundation 29, an initiative dedicated to supporting autism awareness and cultural heritage preservation. The foundation operates in parallel with her racing activities and carries the number she races under.
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