It will be a case of a last fling for Motorite Racing on the Atlas Copco 450, the final round of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship, on the West Rand on October 28 and 29.The most successful privateer team in the history of the Donaldson series will be disbanded after the event, but […]
With pre-running on the rugged race route to open Saturday, Oct. 22, official entries from 27 U.S. States and 11 countries were included in Thursday’s drawing for start positions in various classes for next month’s 49th anniversary of the iconic SCORE Baja 1000 desert race, the season finale of the four-race 2016 SCORE World Desert […]
The ultimate round of the Liquorland South African National Enduro championship was held this past weekend in the beautiful area around Heidelberg, a 40-minute drive south of Johannesburg. A hot, dry and dusty day with above average wind speeds made for a tough day’s racing where competitors had to make sure they stayed hydrated on […]
The 2016 Donaldson Cross Country Championship is set for a thrilling showdown at the final race of the season, with the Class T title to be settled at the Atlas Copco Gold 450 in Gauteng, on 28 and 29 October. The Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) Ford Performance team of Chris Visser and co-driver Ward Huxtable […]
The Automobile and Touring Club of UAE (ATCUAE) announced today that 108 drivers will be competing in the first round of the Emirates Desert Championship, the UAE’s national Baja rally championship for cars, buggies, motorcycles and quads. The fourth season of the championship kicks off on Friday 14th 2016 with the opening round taking place […]
The fourth season of the Emirates Desert Championship, the UAE’s national Baja rally championship for cars, buggies, motorcycles and quads, kicks off this Friday in Dubai. Over the first three years of the series, the Emirates Desert Championship has grown to become the largest motorsport competition in the Gulf region in terms of entry numbers […]
Overdrive Racing’s Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah confirmed his dominance of the 2016 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies with an emphatic start-to-finish victory in the punishing six-day OiLibya Rally of Morocco yesterday. The Qatari drove one of five Toyota Hiluxes entered by the Belgian car preparation company on the most difficult event of its kind in […]
The Red Bull KTM Rally Factory Racing Team closed out their season on Friday with Dakar Rally winner Toby Price taking victory in the final round of the 2016 FIM Cross Country Rallies World Championship. Teammate Sam Sunderland was second and Pablo Quintanilla took third place. Matthias Walkner, the third in the trio of KTM […]
Red Bull KTM factory riders on Wednesday wrapped up stage three of the Morocco Rally, and after the marathon stage where teams are denied any support and camp overnight in the desert, Toby Price leads the overall standings by one minute 58 seconds. Toby Price finished a close and tactical second place in Wednesday’s stage, […]
Carlos SAINZ / Lucas CRUZ steered the PEUGEOT 3008 DKR to its first cross-country rally stage victory on Leg 3 of the 2016 Rallye • Continuing their strong run since Monday’s start, Team Peugeot Total’s Spanish crew bounced back from a time-consuming navigational error on Tuesday to set the pace on today’s competitive section and post […]
Peugeot Sport’s mechanics and engineers spent much of last night working to repair the PEUGEOT 2008 DKR of Cyril DESPRES / David CASTERA which had been damaged in a series of rolls on Monday. The team’s first class efforts enabled Team Peugeot Total’s French crew to line up for Leg 2’s early start this morning […]
The sun shone kindly on Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) Ford Performance this weekend at the Sun City 450, with the team enjoying a clean sweep of the top Class T podium places.Chris Visser and Ward Huxtable scored their second win of the season in the V8-powered Ford Ranger, while team-mates Gareth Woolridge and Boyd Dreyer […]
Toyota Gazoo Racing SA continued their unbeaten run in the 2016 Donaldson Cross-Country Championship, as former champions Anthony Taylor and Dennis Murphy recorded their first win of the season, behind the wheel of the Toyota Gazoo Racing SA Hilux 4×4. The teamhave won every round of the seven-round 2016 championship, with the bulk of the […]
South Racing continues the development of the DMAS South Racing Ford Ranger by entering two cars in next week’s six-day OiLibya Rally of Morocco, round eight of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, which starts in Agadir on Sunday, October 2 and finishes at Erfoud on October 7. The car has set encouraging stage […]
The season is entering the back straight with the running of the Sun City 450 on September 30 and October 1 – the penultimate round of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship – but as the series winds down there are still important questions to be answered where the Production Vehicle category is concerned. […]
Going into the penultimate round of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship, the Sun City 450 on September 30 and October 1, the Special Vehicle drivers’ championship has developed into a two horse race. Reigning champion Evan Hutchison (Motorite BAT Viper) has a 17 point lead over Australian Dave McShane, in the Fox Racing […]
An air of expectation and excitement currently surrounds the Toyota Gazoo Racing SA team, as they prepare the new Toyota Hilux Evo for its first race this weekend, the Sun City 450. Taking charge of the new vehicle will be Giniel de Villiers and his regular navigator, Dirk von Zitzewitz. At the same time, Anthony […]
As the 2016 Donaldson Cross Country Championship heads into the home stretch, Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) Ford Performance will be going out with focus and determination at the upcoming Sun City 450, on Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 October. Having produced three different winners in the past five events, the highly competitive Class T […]
Former South African champion Terence Marsh will have not one but two celebrity co-drivers helping him navigate the Sun City 450, penultimate round of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship, on September 30 and October 1. Marsh has commandeered the services of Calvin Fisher, editor of TopCar, and Justin Hume, marketing director of electronics […]
Holeshot Harry’s in Harrismith (Free State) played host to the sixth and penultimate round of the South African National Motocross championship this past weekend. Competitors were well aware that this was an important round to count towards their respective championships with only one round left after Harrismith. Heading off on what turned out to be […]
Crossing Bulgaria from the west to the east, from the mountains to the plains, from the city centre of Sofia to Long Beach, after eight days of racing the Balkan Offroad 2016 has finished on Saturday, September the 17th 2016. More than 2000 kilometers of offroad racing through all types of terrain made the Balkan […]
A lot has changed in LEG 5 on the Balkan Offroad Rallye. It is a marathon, not a supercross and those teams who overestimated their material are suffering now. Leader Konstantin Cholakov has mechanical problems with his Hilux, so Doncho Canev takes over. Frank Stensky is second in the overal ranking, pushing the leaders of […]
The brand new Toyota Gazoo Racing SA Hilux Evo enjoyed its first test session recently, when Giniel de Villiers and navigator Dirk von Zitzewitz put the revolutionary two-wheel-drive vehicle through its paces at a location in the Northwest Province of South Africa. It was the first real-world test for the Toyota Hilux Evo, and the […]
Passing through the Rhodopian Mountains for the last time, the Balkan Offroad Rallye says goodbye to the high mountains and heads east to the second bivouac in Starosel. ‘Really, after this rally I would like to ride back from Varna to Sofia, but with more time to stop at all those beautiful places,’ says Franz […]
From a fire that ruined the team workshop in Pietermaritzburg to the winner’s T1 FIA trophy in the center of Brazil – with an incontestable NWM-Ford Performance 1-2 It has been a wild journey. Brazil’s largest off-road competition went through seven days and 3,212 kilometers of pure roughness, melting heat and great sportsmanship. On […]
A challenging and technical route awaits competitors when the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship returns to the Pilanesberg for the Sun City 450 on September 30 and October 1.The race is back on the cross country calendar and is the penultimate round of the seven event national series. The event was last held in […]
NWM-Ford Performance Ford Rangers reached top speeds of 185 kph. Cristian Baumgart and Beco Andreotti sustain a 46-minute lead over the new second-placed duo of Lance Woolridge and Marcelo Haseyama.Rally dos Sertões Day 4 was the fastest one until now. The leading cars raced through the 376-km stage in a little more than three hours, […]
SANORA has implemented a new safety and information system, developed in Australia, to be used on the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship.RallySafe was first used on the recent Nkomazi 450 in Mpumalanga, and was a hit with race officials and competitors alike. The system offers a wide range of benefits that include safety, interactive […]
Overdrive Racing’s Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah continues to rewrite the history books after confirming a third FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies drivers’ title by winning this weekend’s Columna Medica Baja Poland, round seven of the nine-event series, at Szczecin in northwestern Poland. Driving a Toyota Hilux, al-Attiyah edged into a useful lead early on and […]
Gareth Woolridge and Boyd Dreyer earned a well-deserved podium result today for Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) Ford Performance on the Nkomazi 450 race in Malalane. A month ago, it seemed that their hopes of completing the 2016 season had gone up in smoke with the fire at the NWM workshop in Pietermaritzburg – especially considering […]
Toyota Gazoo Racing SA, in associated with Total Quartz’s Leeroy Poulter and navigator Rob Howie continued their unbeaten run for 2016, when they recorded their fifth consecutive victory of the 2016 Donaldson Cross-Country Championship. “Leeroy and Rob had a clean run today, and they managed to continue their unbeaten run for the season,” said Toyota […]
The Koue Bokkeveld 400, the fifth round of the 2016 SA National Cross Country Championship for Motorcycles and Quads, proved to be a testing event with some interesting results after two days and about 480 kilometres of racing. With only one race remaining in the national series, the championships are now on a knife’s edge […]
KTM’s Toby Price maintains the overall lead in the 2016 Atacama Rally in Chile after a tough Stage 3.Husqvarna’s Pablo Quintanilla won the Stage ahead of KTM’s Kevin Benavides. Toby Price rounded out the day’s top three.Price commented the tough stage was made more difficult by the inaccurate roadbook supplied by race officials. The Atacama Rally 2016, […]
Overdrive Racing’s season of FIA World Cup for Cross-Country rallying continues when it enters five Toyota Hiluxes in this weekend’s Columna Medica Baja Poland, round seven of the nine-event series, in Szczecin in northwestern Poland. FIA World Cup leader Nasser bin Saleh Al Attiyah returns from skeet shooting programme at the Rio Olympics to try […]
Spanish former WRC star Xavier Pons is preparing to tackle his third event of the cross-country rallying season, when he and new Argentinean navigator Ronnie Graue tackle this weekend’s Columna Medica Baja Poland, round seven of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, in a DMAS South Racing-backed Ford Ranger. After finishing the gruelling […]
Motorcycle and quad competitors in the 2016 SA National Cross Country Championship have only two more chances to earn points towards the championship standings and the tension is high before the Koue Bokkeveld 400 this week. To add to the tension, is the fact that the Western Cape riders are notorious for delivering the goods […]
There is a tight two-way battle at the top of the Special Vehicle and Class A championships with the rest of the field playing a catch-up game.That, just about, sums up the Nkomazi 450, round five of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship, in Malalane on 26 and 27 August. Reigning champions Evan Hutchison […]
One crew is running away with the Production Vehicle category in the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship, and two others will be involved in a fascinating battle at the top of their class at the Nkomazi 450 in Malalane on 26 and 27 August. On top of running away with the overall and FIA […]
All eyes will be on the Class T category of the 2016 Donaldson Cross Country Championship when the fifth round of the season kicks into gear at the Nkomazi 450 in Malalane on 26 and 27 August. For the Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) Ford Performance team, it’s a crucial opportunity to fight back for the […]
Round three of the South African National Enduro championship was held at Bulwer in KwaZulu-Natal this past weekend and competitors were looking to add valuable points towards their respective championships. Riders had to complete five laps of a 38 km loop that included a 1.4km very tight MX test which was raced from lap one, […]