Injury urges another motocross team change. Husqvarna South Africa’s motocross team’s tumultuous year continues on the news that star rider Richie van der Westhuizen, who sits second in both the Monster Energy South African MX1 and MX2 championships, will not race at Gauteng’s Terra Topia’s season finale Saturday 14 October. Van der Westhuizen was injured […]
A bumper festival of national and regional cross country motor racing will see the 2017 season go out with a bang at the Atlas Copco Gold 400 in Glenharvie on October 27 and 28. The event will see the final rounds of both the Auto and Moto championships in the South African Cross Country Series […]
Husqvarna South Africa’s motocross team heads to a home race at Terra Topia’s season finale in Gauteng Saturday 14 October, with team leader Richie van der Westhuizen sitting second in both the Monster Energy South African MX1 and MX2 championships, while stand-in MX2 lad Caleb Tennant is also looking forward to close off his season […]
Horn brothers set to clinch Class T title at Atlas Copco Gold 400 After an intriguing season full of twist and turns the final championships to be settled in the Production Vehicle category of the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) will be laid to rest at the Atlas Copco Gold 400 in Westonaria on […]
Rallye du Maroc has attracted plenty of offroad racing talent to the dunes of North Africa. Red Bull Desert Wings racers are primed for battled in the car and bike categories as they look to secure pole position for the upcoming Dakar Rally. Looking to defend his Rallye du Maroc car title over 1,995 kilometres […]
Pepson Plastics Husqvarna Enduro star Brett Swanepoel completed his come-from-behind charge to end up on the 2017 Liquorland MSA Enduro Championship Podium following a double silver weekend at the Lesotho Double Header. Swanepoel ended up second overall and in his E2 class on both Friday and on Saturday’s full points-paying rounds, while Pepson Plastics Husqvarna’s […]
After several weeks of punishing cross-country rallying across South America, Germany-based car preparations company South Racing heads to North Africa this week to tackle the OiLibya Rally of Morocco, round 10 of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. South Racing will oversee three cars in Africa’s only round of the FIA World Cup: […]
Personnel at Overdrive Racing have their hands full this week when the Belgian car preparations company runs seven Toyota Hiluxes in the OiLibya Rally of Morocco, the 10th and penultimate round of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. The event starts in Fèz on October 5 and finishes in Erfoud on October 10. The […]
Top results for Monster Energy Honda Team in Peru. Paulo Gonçalves triumphs in the Baja Inka. Monster Energy Honda Team have accomplished their dual mission planned for the participation in the Baja Inka Paracas 1000. Not only did the team come away with a fine result in the race itself, but performed notably when faced […]
The Production Vehicle category at the Sun City 400 today, round five of the South Cross Country Championship (SACCS), turned out to be a pretty good event if you are a Toyota supporter. Giniel de Villiers and Dennis Murphy, in a new Toyota Gazoo Racing SA Hilux, scored a third successive win to go with […]
The small town of Vimioso, used to a much quieter way of life welcomed crews from every corner of Europe… The King of Portugal has always been the stand-out event in the Ultra4 Europe series, and this year, with a massive entry of 51 cars spread over four classes it really came of age. The small […]
The hypercar segment is getting even more exciting with the debut of the Mercedes-AMG Project One.Unveiled ahead of its public display at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show, the Mercedes-AMG Project One has the goal of bringing Formula 1 technology to the road and star race car driver Lewis Hamilton was even at the launch to […]
Drivers and co-drivers who are leading Special Vehicle championships are in for a few sleepless nights between now and the fifth and penultimate round of the South African Cross Country Championship (SACCS), the Sun City 400, in the Pilanesberg on September 15 and 16. So tight are the championship positions there is every possibility of […]
When the going gets the tough the tough get going is an overworked cliché but it amply describes the situation in the Production Vehicle category going into the fifth and penultimate round of the South African Cross Country Championship (SACCS), the Sun City 400, in the Pilanesberg on September 15 ad 16. With the withdrawal […]
South Racing’s Portuguese driver Ricardo Porém increased his lead in the 2017 Portuguese National Championship of Cross-Country Rallies (CNTT) by taking an impressive victory in Baja TT Idanha-A-Nova, the fourth round of the series, which finished in the Castelo Branco region on Saturday. The Ford Ranger driver and navigator Hugo Magalhães led after […]
If you’re going to gamble, Sun City is the place to do it. And Team ATS Motorsport, aka the Young Guns, will be gambling on a strong finish in the Sun City 400, fifth round of the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS), which takes place at the popular North-West Province resort on September 15 […]
Toyota Gazoo Racing SA will be campaigning their all-new Toyota Hilux at this weekend’s Sun City 400 – the penultimate round in the 2017 South African Cross-Country Series (SACCS). Behind the wheel of the new Dakar challenger will be Giniel de Villiers, partnered by Dennis Murphy – who are also in the hunt to take […]
The 2017 South African Cross Country Series is rapidly heading towards its grand finale, with only two of the season’s six events remaining. With three crews in contention for championship glory, it’s all to play for at the upcoming Sun City 400, based at the world-renowned resort in the scenic Pilanesberg. Having scored a well-deserved […]
For motor racing fans it makes sense to combine the penultimate round of the South African Cross Country Championship (SACCS), the Sun City 400 on September 15 and 16, with a weekend getaway at one of the world’s premier holiday resorts. With closely fought championships up for grabs in both the Production and Special Vehicle […]
South Racing claimed a double podium finish in Brazil’s daunting Rally dos Sertões, a gruelling seven-day cross-country rally that started in Goiânia on August 20th and finished in Bonito on Saturday (August 26th). The Brazilian crew of Reinaldo Varela and Gustavo Gugelmin delivered a solid performance to bring their Divino Fogäo Rally Team Ford Ranger, […]
Overdrive Racing is sending a powerful fleet of six Toyota Hiluxes to this weekend’s ORLEN Baja Poland, round nine of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. Based at Szczecin and taking place on September 1-3, the three-day event attracts one of the largest entries in the cross-country calendar and 134 cars, bikes, quads and trucks […]
FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies will visit Szczecin for the sixth time in history and spectacular Łasztownia Island will once again be a host for service park as well as all rally offices. During the press conference held in Warsaw’s Hotel Westin the organizers revealed more details about this year’s edition of ORLEN […]
Following on from the recent Atacama Rally in Chile and this week’s Rally dos Sertões in Brazil, South Racing is also preparing to run three cars in this coming week’s Desafio Ruta 40 Nord, the second round of this year’s Argentine Cross-Country Rally Championship and a round of the South American Cross-Country Rally Championship […]
Joan Barreda and Ricky Brabec grabbed top honours in a Monster Energy Honda Team one-two victory in the twenty-first edition of one of the United States’ most prestigious races: the Vegas to Reno. After triumphing in the 2017 Baja Aragon in July, Joan Barreda once again turned on the winning style, this time at the […]
South Racing’s Bolivian driver Rodrigo Gutiérrez and Croatian navigator Tomislav Glavic missed out on a podium finish after crashing heavily on the fourth stage of Chile’s demanding Atacama Cross-Country Rally, a round of the South American Cross-Country Rally Championship. Gutiérrez was in the top three from the start in Copiapó and held second overall […]
South Racing, the German-based cross-country rally car preparations company, is in the midst of a hectic August rallying programme in South America and is counting down the hours to running two cars in Rally dos Sertões, Brazil’s premier cross-country rally. The event starts in the central-western town of Goiânia on August 20th and finishes […]
Defending South African National Rally and Cross-Country champion, Leeroy Poulter, has decided to step away from motorsport for the remainder of the 2017 season. The talented motor sportsman made the decision to fully recover from the brain surgery he underwent in 2016, to remove an anomalous growth. While the surgery itself was a great success, […]
The results for the Harrismith 400, the penultimate round of the SA Cross Country Championship for Motorcycles and Quads that took place on 28 July, and the updated championship standings show that although a few titles have been secured, many championship titles will only be decided at the sixth and final event of the 2017 […]
Pepson Plastics Husqvarna Motorcycles South Africa Off Road duo, Brett Swanepoel and Henco Botha did the team proud with a pair of great performances in the Harding Liquorland SA National Championship Enduro over the weekend, while Husqvarna-supported 125 High School rider Matt Green also delivered another brilliant result. Swanepoel had a great race to end […]
Overdrive Racing’s Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah moved one step closer to a third successive FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies title with a convincing start-to-finish victory in the Veszprém-based Hungarian Baja, round eight of the series. The Qatari and French co-driver Matthieu Baumel clinched victory on the Prologue stage on Friday evening and that paved […]
After missing Baja Aragon due to a foot injury, co-driver David Kripal returns to racing at Hungarian Baja, 8th round of the FIA World Cup and 4th round of the Hungarian Championship, to partner Tomas Ourednicek in South Racing Central Europe’s Ford Ranger Dakar. Hungarian Baja will be a crucially important step of South Racing […]
This week, Husqvarna, KTM, Honda and Yamaha packed their bags and headed for Chile and the town of Copiapó where the administrative and technical verifications for the Atacama Rally will be taking place on 12 August, followed by the prologue on 13 August and the first Special on 14. Copiapó is a mining town right […]
Munich. Cross-country race fans will be watching all the action of the Hungarian Baja 2017 very closely as the international gathering of drivers and teams commence preparations for Dakar Rally 2018. For MINI and motorsport partner X-raid, the Hungarian Baja race is yet another chance to hone and further develop the established and highly regarded […]
With two events still to be run championship positions in the Production Vehicle category of the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS) have taken on an interesting look. The Toyota Gazoo Racing SA pair of South African champions Leeroy Poulter/Rob Howie and Giniel de Villiers/Dennis Murphy still dominate the overall championship, but there has been […]
With three close championships the Special Vehicle category in the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS), the two remaining events on the calendar are scheduled for an explosive climax. Consider the following: the overall standings see three drivers separated by 14 points, three teams in the Class A championship are separated by 10 points and […]
Qatar’s defending FIA World Cup champion Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and Poland’s talented young driver Aron Domzala will represent Overdrive Racing in this weekend’s Veszprém-based Hungarian Baja, round eight of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. Al-Attiyah arrives in Central Europe with a commanding lead in this year’s championship after claiming victories in Dubai, Qatar, […]
Husqvarna South Africa’s Pepson Plastics Off Road Team heads to Harding on the Kwa-Zulu Natal South Coast for the fifth round of the MSA Liquorland South African National Enduro Championships with both of its riders looking for top results in what is effectively their home race this weekend. Henco Botha Henco Botha from Matatiele, which […]
Travis Pastrana will compete in the Vegas to Reno off-road race, the longest of its type in America, as part of the Polaris RZR Star Car scheme. The four time Rally America champion will compete in the 550 mile event in just over two weeks time, the third of four guest drivers to compete for […]
South African Husqvarna rider Brett Swanepoel rode home a fine seventh following what can only be termed as the hardest enduro on earth at the Red Bull Romaniacs in Sibiu, Romania on Saturday. Pepson Plastics Husqvarna man Swanepoel started cautiously, riding home a handy 12th on Wednesday’s first day but he then blasted into the […]
The Ford Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) Puma Lubricants team had plenty reason to celebrate at the end of this weekend’s Harrismith 400, round four of the South African Cross Country Series (SACCS). Gareth Woolridge and Boyd Dreyer scored their first-ever victory in Class T, after a faultless performance throughout the two days and 448km of racing. […]