Red-Lined Motorsport’s Terence Marsh, partnered for the 2018 Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race by experienced co-driver, Riaan Greyling, came away from the grueling race not only as the second-placed crew in Class FIA – but also as the winner of the 2018 Road to Dakar. This means that Marsh receives a free entry to […]
The Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race (TDR 1000), the third and fourth rounds of the SA Cross Country Motorcycle Championship, that took place from 22 to 24 June over a distance of a thousand kilometres from the Jwaneng sport complex, was dominated by the local Botswana rider Ross ‘Kalahari Ferrari’ Branch (Brother Leader Tread […]
Almost absolutely perfect. The second performance in Friuli played by Jakub Przygonski astonished both experts and audience during the three days of the Italian Baja, which celebrates its 25th anniversary. Triumph of the Pole driver with the Mini John Cooper Works Rally of the Orlen X-Raid Team in a time of 5:16’36’’, after leading also […]
The Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race, round three of the 2018 South African Cross Country Championship, again claimed its share of victims in a tough and tight race over three days and a thousand kilometres that tested man and machine. It was, however, the Dakar Rally expert Giniel de Villiers and his navigator Dennis […]
Pepson Plastics Husqvarna Racing came back from Botswana weighed down by the silverware after its riders delivered a sterling performance across the board. The weekend started out on a positive footing for the team when Kenny Gilbert and Taki Bogiages ended up second and third overall in Friday’s qualifying time trial, with Gilbert second in […]
Pepson Plastics Husqvarna Racing heads to the central Kwazulu Natal village of Tugela Ferry on the front foot for the Impi Hard Enduro, the third round of the 2018 MSA South African National Enduro Championships. It’s been a longer than expected break since the previous race thanks to a calendar reshuffle, but the team is […]
The biggest race on the National Cross Country calendar is fast approaching as riders prepare for 1000 km’s of dusty desert trails. The Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race is a double-header event that will take place this weekend from 22-24 June. Branch kicks of 2018 National Cross Country season. Photo: www.zcmc.co.za Looking to snatch […]
The 2018 Silk Way Rally will welcome the best pilots of the discipline, and, for the first time, no contender for the title in the car category has ever written his name on the rally’s winners list. Among the new comers, Nani Roma (Spain) from X-Raid Mini John Cooper Works Rally Team, winner of 2014 Dakar, […]
Motorcycle competitors are looking forward to return to the gruelling Botswana desert on 22, 23 and 24 June when they will be competing in the Toyota Kalahari Desert Race 1000 (TDR 1000) that will form the third and fourth rounds of the 2018 SA National Cross-Country Motorcycle Championship. The TDR 1000 will see competitors take […]
From June 29th until July 7th the northwest of Poland will roar again: Also in 2018 the organizers of the biggest Marathonrally in Central Europe are proud to say: “The legend lives on!” Next to the one-week long Marathonrally, the first time in history there will be the new category “Breslau 500” – a Rally […]
Entries are increasing day by day at the 25th Italian Baja, as in just one week participants will deal with scrutineering and administrative checks at the Pordenone Fair, on Thursday, June 21st. While the Tagliamento river, quickly reinforced after heavy rains, could disturb the track planned by the Fuoristrada Club 4×4 Pordenone. As always, this […]
With two victories from two starts in the 2018 South African Cross-Country Series (SACCS), Toyota Gazoo Racing SA’s Giniel de Villiers will be hoping for similar results during Round 3 of the championship – the grueling Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1,000 Desert Race. The Desert, however, is the only “marathon” race on the local calendar, and […]
Championship hopefuls in the Special Vehicle category will be eyeing the 60 points up for grabs over the two heats with greedy eyes on the Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race, round three of the South African Cross Country Series championship (SACCS), from June 22 to 24. With the season reaching the halfway stage 60 […]
There is no substitute for quality and the field assembled for this year’s Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race, round three of the South African Cross Country (SACCS) Championship from June 22 to 24, is as good as it gets. A case can be made for this year’s Production Vehicle entry to be the best […]
Following the cancellation of the last timed section (9) of 2018 Taklimakan Rally, the standings edited after stage 8 were approved today by the Race Director. Han Wei / Liao Min (Geely) and Armand Monleón (KTM) are the 2018 Taklimakan Rally winners. 59 cars/trucks et 11 bikes/ATVs have completed the 4765,16 kilometers of the rally […]
Kenny Gilbert from Pretoria sits in the joint lead of both the overall and open class OR1 championships aboard his Pepson Plastics Husqvarna FX450, on equal in points with arch rival Ross Branch in both title tables. “The Desert Race is a great weekend but it’s a difficult one because we literally race through my […]
The Ford Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) team heads to Botswana next weekend with the aim of claiming its third consecutive victory in the 2018 South African Cross Country Series (SACCS). The annual Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race is the third round of the championship and takes place in Jwaneng from 22 to 24 June. […]
Young Gun Richard Leeke heads to the Desert Race with a new co-driver alongside him in the Speedglas Welding Helmets BMW X3, regular partner Henry Köhne sidelined by a motorcycling accident. While the other Young Gun recovers from a broken collarbone, the skilled and experienced Danie Stassen has been drafted in to navigate for Leeke […]
After eight days and 2350 km the 2018 BMW Motorrad International GS Trophy has reached its conclusion back where it began, at Camp Chinisiin Khuree near Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. And it’s Team South Africa for the second time (having won the 2016 edition in Southeast Asia) who are the champions. This year there were 18 […]
2016 Dakar Champion Toby Price (#295 KTM 500 EXC-F) has added another Tatts Finke Desert Race title to his name, being crowned King of the Desert for the sixth time in nine years today in Alice Springs. Price managed to seal the win despite falling off his bike with 100 kilometres to go, taking victory […]
The 50th anniversary edition of the SCORE Baja 500 was nothing short of a classic. The roughest, toughest, longest and most spectacular course was put in place to ensure this would be a race nobody will be forgetting in a hurry. As always the bulk of the fans’ attention was dominated by the Trophy Truck contest as […]
Following closely the events in Portugal, we do not get surprised with the huge entry lists the SxS category has in this country, but for many people outside the small rectangle near on the Atlantic shores I can be a bit mind-blowing. So, let us do just a short introduction to what happens there before […]
Yazeed Al-Rajhi held his nerve to confirm an impressive victory in Rally Kazakhstan, round five of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, in Aktau City on Saturday. Needing to stay in front of X-raid MINI John Cooper Works Rally team-mate and FIA World Cup leader Jakub Przygonski through the final 148.52km special, the […]
In a ritual nearly as old as the sport itself, off-road racers from around the world will begin final preparations for June’s historic 50th running of the BFGoodrich SCORE Baja 500 as pre-running opens this weekend in the vast desert terrain of Northern Baja, Mexico. Round 2 of the four-race 2018 SCORE championship season will […]
An all-electric rally car will compete in next month’s Tatts Finke Desert Race.Known as the ‘Acciona 100% EcoPowered’, the car was built in Barcelona by Spanish civil works and renewable energy firm Acciona. It was the first all-electric vehicle to complete the Dakar Rally, in 2017 at its third attempt, and has also gone on […]
So as to finalize the route of the 2018 SILK WAY RALLY which will start from the imperial city of XI’AN on July 15th to join MOSCOW and its legendary Red Square twelve days later, the organization team spent over a month in CHINA and RUSSIA. While refining the ROAD BOOK of the event, STÉPHANE […]
The legendary race is back for a 50th year, with racers starting and ending in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. With desert pros from all over the world signed up, and the legendary Sal Fish and Ivan Stewart as co-Grand Marshals, it’s going to be an event to remember. The BFGoodrich Tires SCORE 50th Baja 500 will […]
FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup front runner Jakub ‘Kuba’ Przygonski looks to extend his lead in a MINI John Cooper Works Rally. Luc Alphand returns for his second competitive outing in 2018 with the MINI John Copper Works Buggy. The 2018 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup edges towards halfway point of the season […]
Route director Adri Roets and a team from the Botswana Tourist Organisation (BTO) has again displayed a Midas touch with the route for this year’s Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race, round three of the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) and a feast of motorcycle racing, in Jwaneng from June 22 to 24. Roets […]
Spain’s Fernando Alvarez and Germany’s Jürgen Schröder hold South Racing’s hopes of top finishes in Rally Kazakhstan, round five of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, on May 27-June 2. The team has been busy in a number of sporting disciplines over recent weeks, with drivers taking part in five different events over […]
Q4 Fuel Husqvarna Racing totally dominated the senior classes in Saturday’s third round 2018 TRP Distributors SA National Motocross Championship in Bloemfontein in the Free State as Caleb Tennant stormed to four wins out of his four races in both the 450cc MX1 and 250cc MX2 classes to see him move into the championship lead […]
Q4 Fuel Husqvarna Racing heads to Bloemfontein in the Free State Sunday 19 May fully intent to maintain its domination into the third round of the 2018 TRP Distributors SA National Motocross Championship. Maddy Malan heads to the Free State fresh off double victories aboard his Q4 Fuel Husqvarna to his home round at Thunder […]
In the five years since Jwaneng became the host town of the Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race, the biggest sporting and social event of the year in the country, a number of significant changes have taken place in what is this year the third round of the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS). Jwaneng, […]
Reigning South African champion and Dakar Rally legend Giniel de Villiers and the Toyota Gazoo Racing SA team are old hands when it comes to topping championship tables. With that in mind it is no surprise to see de Villiers and the Toyota squad in familiar roles. De Villiers has scored back to back wins […]
After a record 103 starts in the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) Coetzee Labuscagne has reached a milestone by leading the Special Vehicle overall and Class A championships. The former Blue Bulls scrum-half and his daughter, Sandra Labuscagne-Jonck, have scored two third place podium finishes in the 4×4 Mega World ARB Porter in the […]
After the smiles and the champagne on last January 14th on the shores of Lac Rose, all the participants agreed: “Can’t wait for the next edition! “. The AFRICA ECO RACE team got straight to work in order to prepare the 2019 edition. At the program, a course with as little liaisons as possible, […]
Richard Leeke and Henry Köhne in the Speedglas Welding Helmets BMW X3 had a disappointing end to the Battlefields 400 and were forced to retire when the left rear wheelstuds sheared approximately two-thirds of the way into the first of two 200-kilometre loops which made up the event. At that stage the Young Guns were […]
On a day of drama and surprises KwaZulu-Natal crew Andre and Ralph Voigts scored a maiden national championship victory when they won the Battlefields 400, round two of the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS), here today. The Voigts, in a BAT Venom, won a war of attrition which saw only three of 10 starters […]
Pepson Plastics Husqvarna Racing came home smiling from a dusty, rough and tough Koue Bokkeveld 400 second round South African Cross Country Moto championship with a strong points haul across the board on Saturday. In a race run in ideal weather conditions albeit blighted by dust across the mountains north of the Western Cape town […]
When the first Red Bull Romaniacs took off in 2004 it was a festival for nutters, a few Enduro enthusiasts who were looking for the extra kick and real adventure. 14 years later, the sport of “Hard Enduro” has become much more popular, if not mainstream and enjoys huge attention among fans and competitors. The […]