Extreme E’s floating centrepiece, the St. Helena, has arrived in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, with just under one month to go until its Arctic X Prix – the first ever international motorsport event to be staged in the country. The St. Helena departed Dakar, Senegal, following the Ocean X Prix in mid-June and travelled across the North […]
by Motorsport Media – Matatiele, Delmas & Virginia on the menu as championship resumes The South African Cross Country Motorcycle Championship is all set to blast back into action following its lockdown lull, with three new National rounds confirmed through to October. The action will start with a brand-new race at Matatiele at the foot […]
Team OD Audi aims to be the first manufacturer to bring an electrified drivetrain and put it up against conventionally powered opponents in what is considered one of the toughest and most robust rallies, the Dakar. Julius Seebach, managing Director of Audi Sport GmbH and the man responsible for motorsport at Audi said “The Quattro […]
S.4 KOCH-AGATCH – GORNO-ALTAISK (SS: 133,22km – Total: 633,22km) SANDERS, CHICHERIT AND SOTNIKOV, KINGS OF THE MOUNTAIN With the snow-covered peaks of the Altai Mountains as a backdrop, this 4th and penultimate stage also marked the end of the marathon stage for all categories on the SILK WAY RALLY 2021. The day’s special stage, which […]
The inaugural 87 kilometre selective sector on military terrain kicked off hostilities on the Silk Way Rally 2021, on the first stage between Omsk and Novosibirsk. If in the bike category, Argentine Franco CAIMI (HERO MOTORSPORTS TEAM RALLY) took advantage of tricky navigation to take the lead, in the other categories, the Russians were firing […]
After the long day that brought the Breslau Poland participants to the Gwda Wielka area, the race track of the penultimate keg offered a completely new and different terrain from that of the Drawsko’s polygon .Again separated in 2 starting groups, one in the Borne Sulinowo area with a special stage of 123km and then […]
A healthy amount of points was the reward for completing a tough and challenging Toyota Gazoo Racing SA (TGRSA) 1000 Desert Race, the third round of the 2021 South African National Cross Country Series (SACCS) that took place in Upington in the Northern Cape and after a third set of overall winners as well as […]
At 8.30 in the morning the participants of the Breslau Poland are lined up at the prestart ready to face the longest and hardest day of the entire rally. As expected, the teams were divided into two groups to face the two special stages of 85 and 84 km respectively. As usual, following the long […]
by Motorsport Media Another compelling outing for Pepson Plastics Kawasaki Motul Racing Fledgling Cross Country Motorcycle team Pepson Plastics Kawasaki Motul Racing enjoyed another great weekend with a powerful performance at Ventersdorp’s fourth-round GXCC races on Saturday. D’Artagnan Lobjoit consolidated his OR1 championship lead with fourth in class after leading most of the way, with […]
It was an intense and action-packed three days of racing at this year’s gruelling 1 000km Desert Race – round three of the SA Cross Country Series (SACCS), held in Upington for the first time from 18 to 20 June. As the longest and toughest event on the calendar, the 2021 event lived up to […]
The former champions, Lance Trethewey and navigator, Adriaan Roets kept their cool under difficult racing conditions at the Toyota Gazoo Racing SA (TGRSA) 1000 Desert Race to claim the overall victory in the Special Vehicle Category after three days of punishing racing and almost a thousand kilometres. The TGRSA 1000 Desert Race took teams competing […]
2nd overall for Lategan/Cummings 5th overall for De Villiers/Murphy 6th overall for Variawa/Stassen 8th overall for Botterill/Vacy-Lyle Manufacturer’s Award for Toyota As the dust finally settled over the 2021 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing SA 1,000 Desert Race, four TGRSA crews finished in the top ten of the only marathon event on the calendar. After three days […]
Brian Baragwanath and navigator, Leonard Cremer made a little history when they won the inaugural Toyota Gazoo Racing SA (TGRSA) 1000 Desert Race that took place over three days, 18, 19 and 20 June, and almost a thousand kilometres in the Upington area of the Northern Cape with their Century Racing CR6. The TGRSA 1000 […]
By Zac / @kawazacky Two podiums for Yamaha, with Van Beveren in third. Yamaha’s factory rally raid team has made up for its embarrassment earlier this year, with rider Ross Branch taking first at Rally Kazakhstan, and Adrien Van Beveren finishing third. It was a significant win for Branch at Rally Kazazkhstan; the Kalahari Ferrari […]
Cristina Gutierrez and Austin Jones win FIA T3 and T4 sections Argentina’s Lucio Alvarez and Botswana’s Ross Branch survived the rigours of the final stage to secure stunning victories in the car and motorcycle categories at Rally Kazakhstan on Sunday. When runaway leader Mathieu Serradori broke his Century CR6 Buggy on the final 267.02km selective […]
The all-new Toyota Gazoo Racing SA 1000 Desert Race, the third round of the South African National Cross Country Series (SACCS) that takes place over three days and almost a thousand kilometres on 18, 19 and 20 June in the Upington area, has drawn an extremely competitive field in the Production Vehicle Category and the […]
by Motorsport Media New territory, fresh challenges and all to do in Upington Red-Lined Motorsport in partnership with the Penta Motor Group is all set for the biggest weekend of the South African Cross County year when the series visits Upington for the first time for the Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa 1000 Desert Race […]
Source: The Citizen Motoring Correspondent For the first time in nearly three decades, off-road racing’s most iconic round won’t take place in Botswana For local off road racers, the year’s highlight will arrive in the Northern Cape Province’s Upington area this weekend. The occasion will be the Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa 1000 Desert Race, […]
By: Dustin Wheelen She secures the championship points lead after one round. In May, 2021, Laia Sanz announced that she was returning to the FIM Women’s Trial World Championship this season. Sanz has been absent from the trials competition since 2013 when she secured her 13th Women’s World Trial crown. The Spanish rider has focused on enduro […]
· The two Ford Castrol Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) EcoBoost-powered Rangers are raring to go for round 3 of the SA Cross Country Series (SACCS) · Competitors will face approximately 930km of racing over three days, with the event based in Upington in the Northern Cape · Lance Woolridge and Elvéne Vonk (334) aiming to […]
· Stage wins for Toyota’s Yazeed Al-Rajhi and Husqvarna’s Skyler Howes · Austin Jones and Cristina Gutierrez continue to lead FIA T4 and T3 sections AKTAU CITY (KAZAKHSTAN): Frenchman Mathieu Serradori and Austrian Matthias Walkner lead their respective car and motorcycle categories after the second selective section of Rally Kazakhstan between Aktau and […]
The Automotorsport Federation of the Republic of Kazakhstan (AMFK) today announced the strongest entry for Rally Kazakhstan in the five years that it has been an integral part of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. The event takes place on June 8th-13th and will also be the opening round of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies […]
At the second appearance of the Extreme E, this time on the West African Atlantic, the ABT CUPRA XE team collected further valuable championship points with a fifth place and caused more than one sensation on the track: The team from Germany missed the final of the top four by only nine tenths of a […]
Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah completely dominated the 2021 Jordan Rally to confirm an historic 14th victory on the event by the winning margin of 17min 04.8sec on Saturday. The Volkswagen Polo GTi driver and his Andorra-based co-driver Matthieu Baumel won each of the 10 special stages in the Dead Sea and Mount Nebo areas to […]
The 2021 Jordan Rally got underway on the shores of the Dead Sea on Thursday afternoon. Twelve cars and competitors from eight nations will now tackle 10 demanding gravel stages on Friday and Saturday in the Dead Sea, Mount Nebo and Jordan River areas close to the lowest geographical point on earth. Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah […]
The stage is set for the second stop on Extreme E’s calendar – the Ocean X Prix – which takes place on Saturday and Sunday at Lac Rose, Dakar on the west African Senegalese coast. Rosberg X Racing (RXR) took victory in the inaugural X Prix last month in the Saudi Arabian desert of AlUla, […]
The Ford Castrol Cross Country Team was left ruing what could have been at its home race, the Sugarbelt 400 in Pietermaritzburg this weekend, after a strong qualifying performance came to nought with both FIA-class Ford Rangers sidelined due to a relatively minor technical issue. The short 51km qualifying for round two of the […]
Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah, the most successful driver in the history of Middle East motor sport, tops the entry for this weekend’s Jordan Rally, round two of the FIA Middle East Rally Championship. The current series leader and a 13-time winner of the Jordan event heads to the Hashemite Kingdom fresh from securing a recent narrow […]
by Motorsport Media Two top tens as all four Red-Lined Motorsport crews finish gruelling race Red-Lined Motorsport in partnership with the Penta Motor Group may have had a tough time of it as the South African Cross Country Championship returned to the gruelling Sugarbelt 400 after a six season hiatus. But the team starred at […]
1st overall for De Villiers / Murphy 2nd overall for Lategan / Cummings 1st in Class T for Horn / Horn It was a memorable win at the 2021 Sugarbelt 400 for Giniel de Villiers this weekend, as the man from Stellenbosch last won this race in 2001, then partnered with Francois Jordaan. Now, twenty […]
by Motorsport Media Sandy North West Off Road Race a part of TreasuryOne Dakar prep TreasuryOne Motorsport duo Hennie de Klerk and Adriaan Roets are champing at the bit in anticipation for the fourth round of the TIORC Northern Regions Off Road Racing cChampionship at Mareetsane southwest of Mahikeng on Saturday 29 May. An important facet […]
The recently announced Ford Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) Development Team will make its debut at the Sugarbelt 400, round two of the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS), which takes place on 21 and 22 May 2021 in Eston, KwaZulu-Natal. This initiative, which is funded by Ford South Africa and NWM – along with key […]
The stakes will be high for the extremely competitive field in the Production Vehicle Category that will take on the traditional Sugarbelt 400, the second round of the 2021 South African National Cross Country Series (SACCS) on 21 and 22 May in the Eston / Mid Illovo area on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal […]
The 2021 FIA Middle East Rally Championship (MERC) resumes with the Jordan Rally on May 27th-29th. bsent from a revised regional rallying calendar in 2020 because of the global Covid-19 situation, this year’s event has been pushed back one week in the calendar by Jordan Motorsport but retains its spot as the second round of […]
Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and Matthieu Baumel guided their Overdrive Racing Toyota Hilux to a second successive victory in the five-day Andalucia Rally in southern Spain and got their 2021 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies campaign off to the perfect start. The Qatari and his French team-mate became embroiled in a fierce battle with Spain’s […]
by Motorsport Media Cross Country team all set for KZN racing return It’s been a long stretch since the last South African Cross Country race, but Red-Lined Motorsport in partnership with the Penta Motor Group is raring and ready to race in the second round of the season at the rejuvenated Sugarbelt 400 in the […]
Ford Castrol Cross Country Team aiming for another good result at Sugarbelt 400 following debut victory with all-new FIA-class Ranger Lance Woolridge and Elvéne Vonk lead the FIA-class championship in the SA Cross Country Series (SACCS) after winning the season-opening Mpumalanga 400 Podium finish at round one in Dullstroom places Gareth Woolridge and Boyd Dreyer […]
The South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) rendezvous, for round two of the SA National Cross Country championship, is set for the Eston / Mid Illovo area on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, when the Sugarbelt 400 makes its debut after a six year hiatus on May 21 and 22. “The Sugarbelt 400, based at the […]
With a tight schedule to pass all administrative and scrutineering checks on Saturday and Sunday (June 26th and 27th) and a mandatory Driver’s briefing before the first rally day, this year’s rally will be a remarkable turn back on what 10 years ago was the legendary Rallye Breslau with such a huge variety of drivers, […]
Author:Tom Fenton The Mercedes driver has set up his own Extreme E team, with the aim of furthering his sustainability message – and improving gender diversity within motorsport. Driving for the X44 team this season will be Cristina Gutierrez and Sebastien Loeb. Lewis Hamilton has been describing what he hopes to achieve as a new […]