The 8th edition of the AFRICA ECO RACE will be a “ grand cru “ in terms of sport with a beautiful pack, announcing a nice battle between the 4×4’s from Eastern countries and the Buggies which are mostly French. A packed two-wheel drive class, especially this year, as the MD RALLY Sport Team has […]
After four qualifying rounds and five elimination events, the grand finale of the 2015 Bridgestone Club Challenge was held at the Four Wheel Drive Club of South Africa’s Base 4 venue near the Hennops River on 21 November.With the teams having been ranked by points earned on the elimination events, the starting order was reversed […]
RENO, Nev.,USA—Odds makers would consider it a ‘lock’ with the top three point leaders all from the host country hoping to become the first SCORE overall season point champion from their native land as Mexico’s Gus Vidosola Jr, Eduardo Laguna and Carlos Lopez will be leading a field of 31 SCORE Trophy Trucks into next […]
Round Nine of Bridgestone’s 2015 4×4 Club Challenge was an event that won’t be forgotten quickly. This is according to Bridgestone’s Guthrie Blaine, who said that the event, held at the daunting Moegatle 4×4 trail near Brits on 31 October, presented every challenge imaginable. “With 31 teams tackling ten tough obstacles near the end of […]
5 November 2015 Finally, a combination of years of research and development to produce the ultimate two-wheel drive (2wd) rally raid vehicle have come to fruition for Century Racing. Last night, Century Racing unveiled its custom-built rally cars for Dakar 2016 – the CR5s – at the Century Racing Workshop, north of Johannesburg. The new […]
Having already wrapped up the title for the 2015 Donaldson Cross-Country Championship on the previous round, Castrol Team Toyota’s Leeroy Poulter and navigator Rob Howie (Toyota Hilux) put the cherry on top this weekend, by winning the Atlas Copco 450, final round of the 2015 season. The newly crowned champions qualified in second place, less […]
The Ford Performance cross country racing team ended a tough and challenging 2015 season by claiming second place in the Production Vehicle category on the Atlas Copco Gold 450, the final round of this year’s championship. After the heart-break of leading last year’s event until an electrical fault stopped their charge almost within sight of […]
Motorite Racing finished the Donaldson Cross Country Championship on a high note when they won the Special Vehicle category on the Atlas Copco Gold 450, the final event of the season, which ended here. Hutchison and stand-in navigator Rodney Burke cruised to victory in the Motorite BAT Viper with the pair around half an hour […]
The Castrol Toyota Hilux team preserved a 100 percent win record when South African champions Leeroy Poulter and Rob Howie won the Atlas Copco 450, the final round of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, here.For Poulter and Howie victory put the finishing touches to a stellar season for the pair. They ended with five outright […]
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death… with a few minor changes, these lyrics from the Gangsta’s Paradise song by Coolio perfectly describe the prayers of competitors when climbing through the Blue Moon Canyon at the Wild Boar Valley Challenge 2015 in Buzet, Croatia. Along with water, mud, rocks, narrow forest paths, […]
MINI ALL4 Racing driver Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT) is officially crowned winner of the 2015 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup – a victory shared with his regular co-driver Mathieu Baumel (FRA). With this momentous achievement, MINI is also confirmed as winner of the ‘Manufacturer’ title within the World Cup. MINI with its MINI ALL4 Racing […]
First held in June 1987, the Baja Portalegre was the first cross country rally event to be held in Portugal, taking place in the city of Portalegre (interestingly enough). Created by Clube Aventura, an ex Dakar Rally driver, the event took some four years to come to life and required all sorts of planning and […]
The first edition of the Sahari International Challenge will be held in Algeria from 1st to 9th of November. Algerian Motor Sport federation is the organizer of the event. The Sahari International Challenge 2015 is held under the patronage of the President of the Rebuplic of Algeria. The point of the Sahari International Challenge 2015 […]
The 2015 Donaldson Cross-Country Championship will reach its conclusion with the Atlas Copco 450, which takes place in the area around Westonaria, Gauteng, on October 30 and 31. For Castrol Team Toyota this will be an opportunity to underline their dominance in the 2015 season, having won every round so far in this year’s championship. […]
The factory Castrol Toyota Hilux team will be chasing an unbeaten record and some unfinished Production Vehicle championship business will be disposed of at the Atlas Copco Gold 450, the final round of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, on the West Rand on October 30 and 31. The overall and premier Class T championship, for […]
The Ford Performance team is aiming for a solid end to a difficult 2015 season, and will be going all-out to secure a podium finish on the season finale, the Atlas Copco Gold 450 in Gauteng on 30 and 31 October. Having dominated and won this race last year, the Ford Performance crew will be […]
A second driver from ‘Down Under’ is set to join the fray at the Atlas Copco Gold 450, the final round of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, on the West Rand on October 30 and 31. Former Australasian Safari winner Dave McShane will join newly crowned Special Vehicle champions Evan Hutchison and Danie Stassen in […]
There will be a changing of the guard later this year at SANORA, the organisation that administers the Donaldson Cross Country championship in South Africa.After seven years at the helm former South African champion Richard Schilling is to step down as chief executive officer of SANORA in December, and will be replaced by Siegfried Rousseau. […]
There are times when even cross country motor racing must defer to other sporting codes. To accommodate rugby enthusiasts who want to watch the rugby World Cup final the start of the last round of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, the Atlas Copco Gold 450 on the West Rand on October 31, has been brought […]
For Giniel de Viliers and navigator Dirk von Zitzewitz, the 2015 Rally of Morocco will always be a case of ‘what could have been’, especially if they hadn’t lost a mass of time on the rally’s opening stage. But all of that is behind them now, as the pair capped a solid performance in Morocco […]
Overdrive Racing and Hallspeed enjoyed a superb OiLibya Rally of Morocco, with four of the team’s Toyota Hiluxes finishing in second, third, fourth and sixth overall and the other three completing the five-day rally in ninth, 12th and 13th overall. The ninth and penultimate round of the 2015 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies finished […]
A challenging route will offer no late season respite for competitors on the Atlas Copco Gold 450, the final round of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, on the West Rand on October 30 and 31. There is also some unfinished championship business to provide the event with a little extra momentum. On the Production Vehicle […]
South Africa’s Giniel de Villiers in a Toyota Hi-Lux, has provisionally won the fifth and last stage of the Oilibta Rally of Morocco. It makes no difference in his provisional overall standing. He finished the rally in fourth. The overnight leader, Nasser Al-Attiyah wins the event in a X-Raid Mini, but Vladimir Vasilev, also in […]
The fourth and penultimate stage of the 2015 Rally of Morocco, which took place on Thursday October 8th, proved a tough challenge. This was true not only for the Toyota SA Dakar Team, but also for rally leader Carlos Sainz (Peugeot), who was forced to retire with technical problems. Despite the tough terrain and navigational […]
The Oilibya Rally of Morocco has a new leader at the end of the fourth stage after the overnight leader. Carlos Sainz in the Peugeot 2008 DKR16, stopped on thye stage with mechanical problems. Nasser Al-Attiyah in a X-Raid Mini has taken the lead and is leading the rally from Yazeed Al-Rajhi in a Toyota […]
Big dunes offered the crews competing in the Rally of Morocco a stern challenge today, as they tackled Stage 3 of the 5-day event. For the Toyota SA Dakar Team, the stage went without a hitch, as both crews moved up one position in the overall standings, after another solid performance. Giniel de Villiers and […]
Both Giniel de Villiers and Leeroy Poulter had clean runs through Stage 2 of the Morocco Rally today, though Poulter and navigator Rob Howie lost some time when they stopped to inspect the front diff of their older specification Toyota Hilux, after they heard some worrying noises. “Turns out everything was fine,” explained Poulter at […]
A former World Rally Champion and Dakar winner, Carlos Sainz in a Peugeot 2008 DKR, has taken the lead on the Oilibya Rally of Morocco after the second stage today. The South African pair of Giniel de Villiers and Leeroy Poulter, both in Toyota Hi-lux vehicles, have dropped back to 6th and 7th overall. Today’s […]
Bel-Ray Husqvarna Factory Racing team riders Mathias Bellino and Jamie McCanney ensured there was plenty to celebrate for Husqvarna Motorcycles at the final round of the 2015 Enduro World Championship in Requista, France as Bellino wrapped up the Enduro 3 world championship and McCanney secured the Enduro Junior title. The action came thick and fast […]
Successfully defending his Sea to Sky crown, Bel-Ray Husqvarna Factory Racing’s Graham Jarvis has secured an impressive victory at the final round of the 2015 Red Bull Hard Enduro series. Determined to put his TE 300 on the top step of the podium, Jarvis got off to a strong start by finishing second on Friday’s […]
Nine times World Rally Champion, Sebastien Loeb in a Peugeot 2008 DKR, did not have a happy start on his first foray on a rally raid. The Peugeot of Loeb apparently developed mechanical problems and had to be towed to the end of the stage at Zagora. The Rally of Morocco isd the final event […]
KTM Enduro Factory Racing Team riders Antoine Meo and Laia Sanz were crowned champions with a round to go at the Enduro World Championship event in Requista, France on Saturday. Antoine Meo raced his way to second place to pick up enough points for the E2 World Championship title while Laia Sanz went out in […]
Can Jonny Walker finish off his perfect season by completing a Hard Enduro Grand Slam in Turkey?l Jonny Walker make history at this year’s edition of Red Bull Sea to Sky? That’s the question on everyone’s lips as the final round of the Red Bull Hard Enduro season heads to beautiful Kemer in Turkey. Set […]
The beautiful wine lands around Worcester in the Western Cape played host to the final two rounds of the Totpak National Offroad championship and it was down to these last two rounds of the championship to determine who would be crowned South African champion for 2015. Rough tracks with different terrain from rocks to sandy […]
The Toyota Dealer Rally in Cape Town did not start all that well for one of the favourrites to win the SA National Rally Drivers title. Leeroy Poulter and Elvene Coetzee in a Team Castrol Toyota Yaris lost more than two minutes on the second stage of the day near Killarney when they apparently hit […]
Francois Conradie and Andrew van der Westhuizen, in a BAT, scored a convincing overall Special Vehicle and Class P win at the Vryburg 250, round five of the Northern Regions Cross Country Championship, over the weekend. The race was run in conjunction with the penultimate round of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, with Conradie and […]
Evan Hutchison and Danie Stassen lost a battle but won the war when they wrapped up the Special Vehicle category championship at the Vryburg Endurance, round five of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, which ended today. Second place for Hutchison and Stassen, in the Motorite BAT Viper, was enough to put the title out of […]
Vryburg, Saturday – Castrol Team Toyota Hilux crew Leeroy Poulter and Rob Howie put the finishing touches to winning the Production Vehicle category when they cruised to victory at the Vryburg Endurance, round five of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, which ended here today. Today’s win for Poulter/Howie added to victories on the RFS Endurance, […]
Team Peugeot Total confirmed a superb one-two finish in the car category of the China Silk Road Rally with the quickest two times on the 13th and final Dunhuang loop stage on Friday. Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret finished 31min 27sec in front of their fellow French pairing of Cyril Despres and David Castera to […]
Castrol Team Toyota’s Leeroy Poulter and navigator Rob Howie have an opportunity to clinch the 2015 Donaldson Cross-Country Championship this weekend, when they line up for the Vryburg Endurance – Round 5 of the six-round national championship. The pair have won all but one round of the championship this year, though they also won the […]