Two MINI ALL4 Racing on Hungarian Baja podium is the icing on the cake of this particular test and development session, one of several in the ongoing focus on Dakar Rally 2017. The 16th edition of the Hungarian Baja concluded today after a spectacular opening event of a Super Special Stage (SSS), followed by two […]
The Nkomazi 450 will be run over a new route when the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship enters the home stretch with round five of the series on August 26 and 27.Race director Adri Roets said approximately 60 percent of this year’s route will traverse RCL FOODS’ property with 40 percent virgin territory. The […]
A cold day greeted riders and spectators alike when they headed to Thunder Valley in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, for round five of the South African National Motocross Championship. The morning’s cold however quickly turned into a hot, late winter’s day at the track. As the temperatures rose so was the excitement; it was an important round, […]
Three MINI ALL4 Racing to undertake the longstanding Hungarian Baja with drivers Mikko Hirvonen (FIN), Bryce Menzies (USA) and Erik van Loon (NDL).Now in its 16th year, the Hungarian Baja is a proven and very popular race to feature on the FIA Cross Country World Cup calendar. The action for this four day event begins […]
Brothers Johan and Werner Horn, in the Malalane Toyota Hilux, have targeted a good result on the Nkomazi 450, round five of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship in Mpumalanga, on August 26 and 27. For the brothers the race is the ideal opportunity to get what has been a disappointing season back on […]
The Koue Bokkeveld 400, the fifth and penultimate round of the 2016 SA National Cross Country Motorcycle and Quad Championship that takes place on Friday (26 August) and Saturday (27 August) at the Koue Bokkeveld in the Western Cape, will level the playing field and be a good test for all competitors, local as well […]
The nine week break in the 2016 SA National Cross Country Motorcycle and Quad Championship is at the halfway mark with the penultimate round of the season, the Koue Bokkeveld 400 (SACC KB400), that will take competitors to the Ceres area in the Western Cape on 26 and 27 August. Many competitors welcomed the break […]
Gurmeet Virdi and co-driver Kirpal Singh Tung have won the 2016 Force Gurkha Rainforest Challenge India. At the end of the final Twilight stage, they had accumulated a total of 2177 points. Gurmeet and Kirpal are representing Gerrari off-roaders from Chandigarh. This is the first time that an Indian team has won the Rainforest Challenge […]
Reigning champions Evan Hutchison and Danie Stassen decimated the rest of the field to win the Special Vehicle category at the Lichtenburg 450, round four of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship, here on Saturday. Hutchison and Stassen, in the Motorite BAT Viper, were over 12 minutes ahead of second placed Coetzee and Sandra […]
South African champions Leeroy Poulter and Rob Howie preserved their unbeaten record this season when they cantered to victory on the Lichtenburg 450, round four of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship, on the weekend. The Toyota Gazoo Racing SA pair had plenty to spare over team-mates Anthony Taylor and Dennis Murphy with both […]
Kris Meeke made a sensational start to Saturday’s action at Neste Rally Finland by crushing his rivals in the daunting Ouninpohja speed test.The Northern Irishman was fastest through the rollercoaster stage, regarded as the sport’s biggest test of bravery and commitment, by a remarkable 13.4sec in Citroën’s DS 3 to take his lead over Jari-Matti […]
It’s amazing what difference a week can make. Just seven days ago, the team from Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) saw years of research, design, development and manufacturing of its Ford Performance Ranger cross country racing vehicle programme turned to ashes after a devastating fire engulfed its Pietermaritzburg workshop. The blaze destroyed most of the facility, […]
Just like the 2016 Force Gurkha Rainforest Challenge India’s Predator leg, the Terminator leg was also held was held at Quepem (Cavorem) in South Goa. The Terminator leg was further split up into six stages and as the teams had been divided into multiple groups. So, just like Day 2 and Day 3, all stages were […]
The 2016 Force Gurkha Rainforest Challenge India’s Predator leg was held at Quepem (Cavorem) in South Goa. Unlike the first Prologue leg, which was further divided into 12 stages and held over Day 2 and Day 3, the Predator leg has been divided into just six stages. Every single stage of the Predator leg turned out to […]
After 14 long stages, MINI All4 Racing’s hard work was rewarded with four out of the five crews making the top five final positions in the 2016 Silk Way Rally. The MINI’s had to endure 10,000 kilometres in two weeks as the cars travelled from Moscow to the finishing point of Beijing last Sunday. […]
With Leeroy Poulter and navigator Rob Howie unbeaten so far in the Donaldson Cross-Country Championship, it is all systems go as the team prepares to take on the Lichtenburg 450 this weekend. Poulter/Howie have driven their Toyota Gazoo Racing SA, in association with Total Quartz, Hilux to victory on each round of the 2016 season […]
The Prologue leg of season 3 of RFC India was split into 12 stages, the first six stages of which were held yesterday on Day 2 of the 2016 Force Gurkha Rainforest Challenge. On Day 3 the remaining six stages, SS-7 to SS-12 were held. Just like yesterday, the 30 participating teams were split into multiple groups […]
Nasser Al Attiyah secured victory in Baja Aragón 2016 by an margin of just 19 seconds this weekend (22-24 July). It was his second victory in the event following his success 2008. It was a thrilling finish to the challenging Spanish event, as local driver and FIA World Rally Championship legend Carlos Sainz just lost […]
Day 2 of the Rainforest Challenge India is upon us. Of course, yesterday was the scrutiny day, and all vehicles were checked by marshals and subsequently deemed fit to compete in the third edition of the 2016 Force Gurkha Rainforest Challenge India. The first competitive stage – the Prologue leg was held at the Rajiv Gandhi IT […]
With only two points separating the top three drivers a highly volatile situation will dominate the Special Vehicle championship at the Lichtenburg 450 on July 29 and 30.Reigning champion Evan Hutchison (Motorite BAT Viper) and Jimmy Zahos (Cobalt Racing Stryker) are level on points at the top of the overall drivers’ championship with Sarel van […]
A devastating fire at the Neil Woolridge Motorsport premises in Pietermaritzburg has more than likely put paid to an intriguing battle in Class T in the Production Vehicle category at the Lichtenburg 450, round four of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship, in the North West town on July 20 and 30. The switch […]
The arduous 10,000-kilometre Silk Way Rally is finally at an end and the winning drivers will be celebrated at today’s closing ceremony in Beijing. The punishing route through Russia, Kazakhstan and China took the race convoy across some of the planet’s most inhospitable terrain, including the towering dunes of the Gobi Desert. Victory was claimed […]
Team Peugeot-Total are one step closer to winning the 2016 Silk Way Rally after collecting their ninth win of the rally.Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret won today’s Stage 13, putting the French pair up to fifteenth place overall in the #100 Peugeot 2008 DKR. Silk Way Rally leaders Cyril Despres and David Castera put in […]
The Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) Ford Performance team suffered a major setback last night when a fire destroyed a large section of its workshop in Pietermaritzburg.Sadly, both of the team’s Ford Rangers, which were due to compete next weekend at the Lichtenburg 450 cross country race, were also victims of the blaze. “This is devastating […]
Team Peugeot-Total’s Cyril Despres leads the Silk Way Rally after SS12 as Loeb receives a four-hour time penalty for missing two mandatory waypoints.Cyril Despres and David Castera extended their lead in the Silk Way Rally to over thirty minutes, ahead of MINI All4 Racing’s Yazeed Al Rajhi and Timo Gottschalk. Despres produced another perfect run […]
The Donaldson Cross Country Championship is set for yet another high-intensity clash when the teams descend on the North-West farming town of Lichtenburg on 29 and 30 July for round four of the series. The two Neil Woolridge Motorsport (NWM) Ford Performance crews will be going all-out to secure vital points in the fiercely contested […]
Overdrive Racing has called in its heavyweight drivers in a bid to give Toyota a first ever victory in Baja Spain Aragon, round five of this year’s FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies.Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah takes a break from his Olympic Games’ shooting preparations to drive the top-seeded Toyota Hilux alongside his regular […]
Six teams from the state will participate in the third edition of Force Gurkha RFC India, to be held in Goa from July 22-29. The event is the India leg of the iconic Rainforest Challenge of Malaysia. Of the six, four teams are from Bangalore Off-road Drivers Association (BODA), one team from Kodagu-based V5 Offroaders […]
SO CLOSE BUT NOT CLOSE ENOUGH! Sébastien Loeb and Daniel Elena put in their first dominating performance of edition 6 of the Silk Way Rally on the tracks and dunes of the 425km special stage to take 07’02” from overall leaders Cyril Despres and David Castera. But Loeb and Elena failed to come within the […]
A Chinese-made Jiujiangda Hongqi car sporting a Chinese flag prior to the departure of the Silk Way rally on Moscow’s Red Square on July 8, 2016″We usually drive BMW Minis. But this race goes through China. We wanted a car that could represent the country,” said Yan Ke, the manager of the JJ-Sports squad, one […]
The last time that Carlos Sainz participated in the Baja Aragon was in 1988. By then he competed with a Ford RS200 with Carmelo Ezpeleta as co-pilot before embarking on his career in the WRC. Much has happened since the abandonment suffered by Sainz in that edition, but 28 years later, Carlos Sainz returns to […]
The 2016 Silk Way Rally has entered its third and final country and the race pace shows no signs of slowing down. Having conquered testing terrain in both Russia and Kazakhstan the Silk Way convoy is currently locked in an intense battle over the sands of the Gobi Desert in China. In the car category […]
South Racing continues its hectic global motor sport programme by running two cars in this weekend’s Baja Spain Aragon, round five of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies that is based in the town of Teruel and finishes on Sunday afternoon. DMAS South Racing is looking forward to running the former WRC star […]
It will come as no surprise to competitors on the Lichtenburg 450 on July 29 and 30, round four of the Donaldson Cross Country Motor Racing Championship, that the route will be a dry and dusty affair. Winter conditions prevail in North West province and with the course run mainly on harvested maize and cattle […]
S10 – HAMI-DUNHUANG “The track to the caves” 525,24kms Another day in the Chinese furnace as the Gobi Desert nears saw Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean- Paul Cottret (Peugeot DKR 2008), in their role as rapid assistance, triumph on Stage 10. The leaders ran as one through the heat and over the tracks through the […]
The 905 km eighth Stage Bortala and Ürümqi, is the longest of the 2016 Silk Way Rally. And it was anything but easy.Most of the timed sector took place in the Junggar Basin and it played into the hands of Yazeed Al Rahji.As the temperature rose to 38C the Saudi Arabian racked up a first […]
Following a rest day in Almaty, the second half of the 2016 Silk Way Rally is underway and brings with it the challenging dunes of the Gobi Desert. After a frantic first week of racing through Russia and Kazakhstan the race now moves to China with race leaders Team Peugeot-Total and Team Kamaz Master looking […]
Team Peugeot-Total’s Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret remain in the Silk Way Rally after finishing second on Leg 6, before Friday’s rest day.The 2016 Dakar Rally winner had nursed his stricken Peugeot 2008 DKR to the bivouac after dropping more than six hours to the leaders, as well as suffering a few time penalties along […]
With 568km against the clock, 250km of liaison distance and a staggering 600 pace notes across 116 pages in the co-drivers’ road books, Leg 5 of the Silk Way Rally was a punishing day indeed. Notwithstanding a lengthy delay for the #100 car, Team Peugeot Total remains in charge at the front of the field, […]
Stéphane Peterhansel increases his lead over Vladimir Vasilyev to over six minutes after today’s stage, which included a trip to Kazakhstan’s capital Astana.Stéphane Peterhansel reclaimed control after struggling yesterday with a puncture to increase his lead at the Silk Way Rally over Vladimir Vasilyev. Despite the hot conditions in the Kazakhstan capital of Astana, the […]