STAGE 2: IKIUZAK PLAIN – DARWAZA CRATER -> 392 KM The 2nd day racing has already given us a lot of surprises on this Turkmen Desert Race. Some good news, some bad news, especially for Matthieu Serradori and Fabian Lurquin who lost the lead of the ranking because of a mechanical issue. The rally continues […]
STAGE 1: AMUL – IKIUZAK PLAIN – 308 KM The race is on! It was with a prologue of 9 km that the official start of the race was launched this morning. A first day of competition divided into two parts with a first small timed loop before the start of the first stage of […]
An-all female team from Egypt will be challenging for honours in the forthcoming Jordan Baja, the Hashemite Kingdom’s first international cross-country rally since 1990. The three-day off-road event takes place in the stunning Wadi Rum area on September 27-29. The Gazelle Rally Team’s Yara Shalaby and Nouran Ashry have entered in the car category and […]
Not without reason the King of Portugal is called The Ultimate Iberian Race. From the first to the last of its 368 kilometers of race the 62 teams present had to fight hard to get to the end. A goal dreamed of by many and not at all achieved. The Portuguese team Tuff 4×4 are […]
Round 5 of the 2018 South African Cross-Country Series (SACCS), the Harrismith 400, takes place around the Free State town of Harrismith on September 14th and 15th, and for Toyota Gazoo Racing SA it offers an opportunity to cement its standing at the top of the championship table. Giniel de Villiers, partnered with Dennis Murphy, […]
Ultra4 racer Jason Scherer has won the inaugural Triple Crown award. The crown series started with the 2018 King of the Hammers. Scherer won that event for the second time in his career this year, beating out over 140 competitors vying for the King title. The next Triple Crown race was held in Las Vegas at the Mint […]
Securing his second consecutive WESS race win, Sherco mounted Wade Young claimed a memorable victory over Red Bull KTM Factory Racing’s Taddy Blazusiak (POL) and Rockstar Energy Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Billy Bolt (GB) in third. In what was a dramatic turn of events, series leader Jonny Walker (KTM – GB) crashed out of the race […]
Special Vehicle championship to tighten up even more at penultimate round The Harrismith 400, round five of the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) that takes place on Friday and Saturday, 14 and 15 September in the eastern Free State, will reward consistency with a healthy amount of points and could easily tip the scales […]
Battle between Toyota and Ford for the titles to continue Competitors will feel the added pressure to claim the best results at the Harrismith 400, the fifth and penultimate round of the 2018 South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) that takes place on Friday and Saturday, 14 and 15 September in the eastern Free State, […]
All eyes will be on the fiercely contested Class T Production Vehicle Championship when the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) returns to Harrismith for the penultimate race of the 2018 season on 14 and 15 September. Having dominated this event last year with an emphatic 1-2 finish, the Ford Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) team […]
India’s Aravind KP and Abdul Wahid Tanveer will lead Sherco TVS Factory’s four-member rider squad in the PanAfrica Rally in Morocco starting September 8.The team also has the French brother duo of Michael and Adrien Metge, a statement said on Monday. This will be the first rally of the Pre-Dakar series for Aravind, who has recovered completely from his injury. After the […]
Polish star Jakub ‘Kuba’ Przygonski takes MINI John Cooper Works Rally to first place on home soil.Przygonski tightens his grip on the 2018 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup championship. Fellow countryman Krzysztof Holowczyc places another MINI John Cooper Works Rally on the podium with second place. Round nine of the 2018 FIA Cross Country […]
Advantage Caleb Tennant in SA motocross Q4 Fuel Husqvarna Racing heads to Welkom’s sixth round 2018 TRP Distributors SA National Motocross Championship races Saturday 8 August in a powerful position with Caleb Tennant leading both the MX1 and MX2 title chases, Maddy Malan also on a charge in those two open classes and young Neil […]
The fourth stage of the Desafío Ruta 40 brought with it good results for the Monster Energy Honda Team. Despite opening the track, Paulo Gonçalves minimized the handicap and managed to finish the day on the podium. Brabec was fourth on the penultimate stage. In spite of the hindrance of having to open the field, […]
For the first edition of TURKMEN DESERT RACE, no less than 83 crews will start from Amul on September 11th.This colorful race consisting of a caravan of 220 vehicles and 520 persons, will cross Turkmenistan from East to West through the legendary Karakum desert. During this race, the amateurs will have the pleasure to stay […]
Another complicated day in Fiambalá where the Monster Energy Honda Team colours shone in the immensity of the Argentine desert. Stage three of the Desafío Ruta 40 saw victory for Paulo Gonçalves and third place for Ricky Brabec. Today’s Desafío Ruta 40 was originally scheduled to cover a total of 210.89 kilometres of special stage […]
For a long time, Africa is a synonym of adventure and discovery, offering those who dare to go many challenges and uncharted territories. The Kalahary Rally will be exactly that, a 3000 km adventure in a region that is not yet well known to rally-raid and motorsport fans, with a demanding route across breathtaking a landscape. 2018 Kalahari […]
The Desafío Ruta 40 today put the competitors through one of the hardest ever stages in its history as it crossed the Fiambalá Desert. Riders had to tackle a highly demanding 320-kilometre special stage filled with tricky navigation and challenging off-piste racing. Paulo Gonçalves, who opened the track today, lies fourth overall. The severity of […]
The Harrismith 400, the penultimate round of the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS), takes competitors back to the same venue and area they visited for the first time last year, but when they tackle the fifth round of the championship on 14 and 15 September, it will be on a new route. There is […]
Yesterday the participants of the 2018 Sertões Rally had to tackle the second and final half of the marathon stage they started the day before. This meant that this 5th leg of the rally was very demanding by several motives, but specially because the crews only had the chance to do by their own some […]
Can-Am off-road racing teams earned numerous victories and class podiums this past weekend in both North America and South America, affirming Can-Am as the brand of choice for overcoming long-distance and endurance events. In the United States, Can-Am / XPS Lubricants drivers Phil Blurton and Kyle Chaney outlasted stiff competition and overwhelming conditions to record […]
The caravan of participants of the 2018 Sertões Rally travelled yesterday from the city of Luís Eduardo Magalhães to Barra, both in Bahia’s state to race the first half of the marathon stage that will end only today. Yesterday’s leg had 355 demanding quilometers , across a challenging terrain that made some casualties among the […]
Although ice hockey is considered as Czech national sport, rallying is another discipline, which grabs a lot of attention among people in the country. During WRC events fans from Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Ostrava or many other Czech cities can keep their fingers crossed for Jan Kopecky, while in off-road rallying it is Martin Prokop, who […]
The adventure across Brazil continued today with the 3rd stage of 2018 Sertões Rally from Posse (GO) to Luis Eduardo Magalhães (BA). Today’s leg was 350 km long, with 255 km being raced against the clock. Today was finally the day for Gareth Woolridge to set the fastest time on the stage with is the X-Rally/NWM Ford […]
In 2013 Krzysztof Holowczyc became the first Pole who won FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. It seems that this trophy will be in Polish hands again this season thanks to Jakub Przygoński. After eight out of eleven rounds Orlen Team driver tops the standings, ahead of his biggest rivals – Vladimir Vasiliev from Russia […]
The Atacama Rally in Chile turned out to be hugely successful for Monster Energy Honda Team’s Argentinean rider Kevin Benavides, who clinched overall victory and took the leadership of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship. The final day, on a 155-kilometre looping route, starting and finishing in Copiapó, was battled out over the same course […]
After the dispute of the third stage of the Atacama Rally, featuring a 259.27-kilometre timed special, Monster Energy Honda Team rider Kevin Benavides, remains firmly in the podium zone with good prospects of an overall win. The Atacama Rally has reached its halfway point with the dispute of the third stage. Today, despite an hour […]
Atacama Rally, Chile The longest stage in the Atacama Rally, held today in Copiapó, turned out to be a great success for Kevin Benavides behind the bars of the Honda CRF450 RALLY. The Argentinean Monster Energy Honda Team rider set off this morning from first place and proved to be not only unreachable, but also […]
The first stage of Asia Cross Country Rally took the competitors from Pattaya to Pula Chinburi. The 55 competitors had to deal with a very tricky 197 km stage, facing hard terrain and complicated navigation. As a result of the difficulties, some competitors weren’t able to finish the stage in time, receiving the penalties for […]
Monster Energy Honda Team got to grips today with the first full stage of the Atacama Rally, grabbing a decisive win for Kevin Benavides in the dunes of Copiapó. The opening stages looping special, beginning and ending in Copiapó, took in a total of 266.30 kilometres against the clock. The rest was made up of […]
Author: David Wood, Photographer: Kareem Fouda/Trackarazzi Noise Dangerous militants and anxious public officials have not dampened the Egyptian rally community’s passion for desert racing. Claes Raben, a Cairo-based interior designer from Denmark, turns his Jeep sharply off the highway and onto the jagged terrain of Egypt’s unforgiving Eastern Desert. “I packed a shisha pipe and a few […]
With four of the six rounds of the SA Cross Country Championship completed, consistency at the top of the standings has been the name of the game in the Special Vehicle Championship, although Lady Luck has played a role, and sees the overall leaders as the only team to have scored at each event, but […]
One-two for MINI John Cooper Works Rally cars in Hungary. • Joan “Nani” Roma and co-driver Alex Haro in a MINI John Cooper Works Rally win Hungarian Baja 2018. • MINI John Cooper Works Rally crew of Jakub ‘Kuba’ Przygonski and Tom Colsoul finish second. • Jakub ‘Kuba’ Przygonski retains lead of […]
After the recent Atlas Copco 400, round four of the 2018 South African Cross Country Series that took place outside Bronkhorstspruit, the title battles in the Production Vehicle category are looking to go down to the wire with only two rounds of the series remaining. This means competitors who stand a chance of championship titles […]
The biggest event on the National Enduro calendar is about to unfold in KwaZulu-Natal’s Umzumbe. The double-header round of the series will be the first of its kind to hit the South Coast, which will host two blockbuster days of racing from 10-11 August. South Africa’s household names are set to battle it out on […]
Four months have passed since the main protagonists in the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship competed against each other in the deserts of Abu Dhabi and Chilean rider Pablo Quintanilla (Husqvarna) secured victory. April’s Qatar Cross-Country Rally was not supported by the factory teams and Orlen Junior Team rider Maciej Giemza (KTM) claimed the win […]
The Atlas Copco 400, the fourth round of the South African National Cross Country Series (SACCS) that took place outside Bronkhorstspruit this weekend proved to be a real challenge for the teams in the Special Vehicle category with navigators having to be on point while the conditions resulted in quite a few teams not scoring […]
The eighth round of 2018 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup will see the Rally World Cup competitors camp up in Hungary for the 15th anniversary of Hungarian Baja. The opening ceremony will be held at Óváros Square in Veszprém, Friday 10th August. 2018 and will conclude Saturday 11th August after three stages of racing. […]
Jordan Motorsport announced the new 2018 Jordan Baja, the Hashemite Kingdom’s first entry into the world of cross-country rallying since the Marlboro BP 2000 Desert Challenge ran in 1987, 1988 and 1990, according to the Jordan Motorsport Media Service. The three-day off-road event for cars, motorcycles and quads will take place in the Wadi Rum area […]
The Atlas Copco 400, round 4 of the 2018 South African Cross-Country Series (SACCS) will be one that Toyota Gazoo Racing SA’s Henk Lategan and navigator Barry White won’t forget. The pair drove their Class FIA Toyota Hilux to a maiden overall victory, flying the flag for Toyota Gazoo Racing SA as teammates Giniel de […]