Team Peugeot Total’s Cyril Despres and David Castera claimed their first victory on the China Silk Road Rally, when the duo guided their Peugeot 2008 DKR to the fastest time on the 11th stage between Jiayuguan and Dunhuang on Wednesday. Five-time Dakar winner Despres has been largely in the shadow of Peugeot team-mate and rally […]
Frenchman Stéphane Peterhansel pipped Chinese driver Han Wei to the stage victory by just 19 seconds on the 10th selective section of the China Silk Road Rally between Zhangye and Jiayuguan on Tuesday. The Peugeot 2008 DKR driver, partnered by Jean-Paul Cottret, clocked a time of 1hr 57min 40sec and that also enabled him to […]
Emirati Mohammed Balooshi finished the Atacama Rally inside the top 10 to wrap up the fifth round of the FIM Cross Country Rally World Championships in Chile. The final leg from Huasco to La Serena – featuring a timed section for 103km and two road sections to complete 250km – was once again delayed for […]
French driver Christian Lavieille gave Haval its second stage victory on the 2015 China Silk Road Rally, when he and navigator Jean-Pierre Garcin won the televised 2.01km super special stage at the Zhangye stadium on Monday.Damp conditions prevailed for the shortest day of the 13-day rally and Lavieille mastered the slippery track better than the […]
With the Special Vehicle championship delicately poised there will be some nervous crews at the Vryburg Endurance, round five of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, on September 11 and 12.Former champions Evan Hutchison and Danie Stassen (Motorite BAT Viper) head for the penultimate round of the championship with a 17 point margin over Lance Trethewey […]
Castrol Team Toyota will be defending an unbeaten record at the Vryburg Endurance, round five of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship on September 11 and 12, with the added bonus of having factory crew Leeroy Poulter and Rob Howie poised to clinch the Production Vehicle title. Poulter and Howie need third place or better to […]
Chinese driver Lui Kun snatched an unlikely victory on the eighth selective section of the China Silk Road Rally between Alxa Youqi and Zhangye on Sunday. The Mitsubishi Panda MPR11 pilot carded a time of 2hr 29min 52sec and that propelled him to the top of the day’s leader board, with Haval’s Christian Lavieille clocking […]
Jincheng rider Su Wen Min capitalised on a navigational error by Spaniard Armand Monleòn Hernandez to secure the fastest time in the motorcycle category on the seventh selective section of the China Silk Road Rally around Alxa Youqi in Inner Mongolia on Saturday. The day’s stage started in Laohuanjia and it looked set to be […]
Today turned out to be a rough day for everyone, not least for yesterday’s stage winner Paulo Gonçalves, who finished the third stage of the Atacama Rally with a respectable time.Team HRC were presented with a tough task today in a 240 kilometre Dakar-style desert trek in Atacama. The roadbook featured some arduous navigation […]
Team Peugeot Total hammered home its advantage on the demanding fifth selective section of the China Silk Road Rally between Ejina Qi and Alxa Youqi Right Banner in Inner Mongolia on Thursday. The French duo of Stéphane Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret claimed their third successive stage win in a time of 2hr 49min 42sec in […]
Paulo Gonçalves and Jeremías Israel got the fifth date of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship underway in Chile. The first stage of the Atacama Rally proved to be a far-from-easy one, although the team remains firmly focused on their objectives. Torrential downpours over the last few weeks, which have left the tracks and race […]
• Race planned to head from Alxa Zuoqi to Ejina Qi on Wednesday morning Race officials have been forced to cancel Tuesday’s third stage of the China Silk Road Rally on safety concerns.Communications issues meant that the team had no option other than to nullify the loop stage around the Swan Lake bivouac near Alxa […]
Record-breaking 11-time Dakar champion Stéphane Peterhansel called upon all his experience to win the tricky short second stage of the China Silk Road Rally between Zhongwei and Alxa Zuoqi and take the overall lead in his factory Peugeot 2008 DKR. Peterhansel and navigator Jean-Paul Cottret clocked a time of 1hr 19min 09sec on a special […]
Qatar’s Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah extended his lead in the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies with a second-place finish in the Lotto Baja Poland yesterday. Al-Attiyah won the Prologue and yesterday’s last stage but could not overhaul local hero Krzysztof Holowczyc, also driving a Mini All4 Racing, for the top step of the podium. […]
Sand, and lots of it, all add up to a typical Kalahari route for the Vryburg Endurance, round five of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, on September 11 and 12. One of two endurance events on the Donaldson calendar, the Vryburg Endurance will be run over a total distance of 700 kilometres, and is the […]
Chinese driver Han Wei edged into a slender early lead after the opening 102.30km special stage of the China Silk Road Rally between Xi’an and Zhongwei on Sunday. Despite a flat tyre, the Haval driver and navigator Pan Hong Yu benefited from warm, dry and dusty conditions to post the target time of 1hr 23min […]
Plans have been revealed to revive motorsport’s Silk Way Rally and transform it into a major event running from Moscow to Beijing, with the Chinese and Russian governments, along with Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom, backing the project.The Silk Way Rally ran from 2009 to 2013, but was mostly held within Russia. However, after a […]
MINI to push World Cup lead advantage with six MINI ALL4 Racing to start at Baja Poland 2015 // 2015 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup leader Nasser Al-Attiyah heads a six MINI ALL4 Racing charge at Baja Poland – motorcycle rally star Kuba Przygonski to start home race as a MINI ALL4 Racing pilot! […]
The final round of the Liquorland South African National Enduro championship, the Winterberg Enduro, took place this past weekend just outside of Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. Organisers had put together a challenging 47km long loop, but had to re route certain sections slightly just before the event, as the area had seen an […]
Overdrive Racing’s hectic summer period continues unabated this weekend, when the Belgian team enters five Toyota Hiluxes in Lotto Baja Poland, round eight of the 2015 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. The three-day event is based at Szczecin Bezrzecze and the competitive action takes place in the military area of Drawsko Pomorskie and the […]
Overdrive Racing’s flying Dutchman Bernhard Ten Brinke and Belgian navigator Tom Colsoul finished in an excellent second overall in the three-day Hungarian Baja, round seven of the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies, in Veszprém on Sunday. Bernhard ten Brinke The Toyota Hilux crew shadowed Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah to the finish to […]
Nasser Al-Attiyah & Mathieu Baumel are reigning champs at the Hungarian Baja The Qatar Rally Team have set up camp in the Hungarian countryside as they prepare for their latest assault on the FIA Cross-Country Rally World Cup leaderboard. If Nasser Al-Attiyah and co-driver Mathieu Baumel can repeat last year’s triumph at the Hungarian Baja […]
The recent Nkomazi 450, round four of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, has added a touch of tension to the Special Vehicle championship. Former champions Evan Hutchison and Danie Stassen, in the Motorite BAT Viper, went to the Mpumalanga race with a relatively comfortable 27 point lead over Lance Trethewey and Geoff Minnitt, in the […]
Castrol Team Toyota Hilux driver Leeroy Poulter is within touching distance of another entry into the South African motorsport record books.After winning the Production Vehicle category on the Nkomazi 450, round four of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, the versatile Poulter and co-driver Rob Howie are in a near impregnable position in both the overall […]
First overall for Poulter/Howie (Castrol Team Toyota Hilux) Third overall for Horn Brothers (Malalane Toyota Hilux) 2nd in Class S for Stumpher/Hugo (4×4 Mega World Toyota Hilux) Manufacturer’s Award for Toyota Current Donaldson Cross-Country Championship leaders, Leeroy Poulter and navigator Rob Howie, extended their lead at the top of the table with a win on […]
Convalescing Vasilyev forced to miss out on Hungarian outing in Toyota Hilux Danish driver Jes Munk will join forces with Overdrive Racing for the first time alongside Poland’s Marek Dabrowski and Dutchman Bernhard Ten Brinke to form a three-car team for this weekend’s Hungarian Baja. Bernhard ten Brinke After undergoing a heart […]
: Reinaldo Varela and Gustavo Gugelmin enjoyed a superb outing in the eight-day Rally dos Sertões in their native Brazil and reached the finish in first overall to achieve a crushing start-to-finish victory in their Overdrive Racing Toyota Hilux. Reinaldo Varela The Divino Fogão Rally Team pairing won the Prologue stage in Goiânia and four […]
The Special Vehicle form book was turned upside down when Jimmy Zahos and Zaheer Bodhanya scored a maiden national series win at the Nkomazi 450, round four of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, here today. Zahos and Bodhanya, in the Cobalt Racing Stryker, scored a first podium finish on the RFS Endurance, the first race […]
Castrol Team Toyota Hilux crew Leeroy Poulter and Rob Howie clamped a vicelike grip on the Production Vehicle championship when they won the Nkomazi 450, round four of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, here today. The result also gave the factory Castrol Toyota Hilux team a clean sweep of wins in the overall and premier […]
The first ever national off-road race for motorcycle and quad competitors in the Louis Trichardt area, the Soutpansberg 400 that took place on Saturday (1 August), produced some great racing action and with round five of the 2015 Totpak National Off-road Championship now something of the past, the final two rounds of the series promise […]
With just 14 points separating Castrol Team Toyota’s two drivers, Leeroy Poulter and Anthony Taylor, at the top of the Donaldson Cross-Country Championship standings, round four of the six-round championship, the Nkomazi 450 in Malalane, promises to be a spectacular showdown between the two Toyota Hilux drivers. Poulter and navigator Rob Howie have so far […]
The Ford Performance team is targeting a strong showing on the fourth round of the Donaldson Cross Country championship – the Nkomazi 450 that takes place in Malalane, Mpumalanga on 7 and 8 August. The Nkomazi event is one of three 450km sprint races in this year’s six-round championship, and is always a festive yet […]
Top teams in the Special Vehicle category will be under plenty of pressure on the Nkomazi 450, round four of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, in Mpumalanga on August 7 and 8. Lance Trethewey In a championship in danger of turning into a two horse race teams occupying positions in the upper echelons of the […]
When it comes to offering equipment for extreme situations, Mercedes-Benz has been considered a specialist for decades. Where robustness, performance and reliability count the Unimog and Zetros convince on and off the road. Now the two off-road specialists demonstrated their advantages once again. No less than three amateur teams have whipped the attending crowd into […]
The Nkomazi 450, round four of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship on August 7 and 8, will be D-Day for Production Vehicle crews chasing the two Castrol Team Toyota Hiluxes, leading the overall and premier Class T title races. Between them Leeroy Poulter/Rob Howie and reigning champions Anthony Taylor/Dennis Murphy have done all the winning […]
Demanding Brazilian event starts with Prologue in Goiânia on Saturday Fresh from finishing a solid fourth in last weekend’s Baja Spain Aragon, the Brazilian duo of Reinaldo Varela and Gustavo Gugelmin have travelled across the Atlantic to their native Brazil and will drive an Overdrive Racing-run Toyota Hilux at the demanding eight-day Rally […]
South Africa female competitors have been invited to take part in a selection camp that would see a female competitor win a fully sponsored drive in the 2016 Sealine Cross Country Rally in Qatar. The selection camp, an initiative by the Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) in association with the FIA Women In Motorsport […]
South Racing enjoyed a superb run in the punishing Desafio Guarani, the second event in the prestigious Dakar Series, with Peter Jerie taking outright victory for the German-based team and Fernando Alvarez finishing fourth overall. Desafio Guarani took place over five demanding stages through some of the remotest terrain in Paraguay and Czech driver Jerie […]
A third international team is to compete in the Donaldson Cross Country Championship with Australian crew John Purshouse and Murray Hynes set to make their Production Vehicle debut at the Nkomazi 450, round four of the national series, in Malalane on August 7 and 8. Purshouse and Hynes will compete in the premier Class T […]
Overdrive Racing’s trio of Toyota Hiluxes completed the gruelling Baja Spain Aragon, round six of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, in fourth, eighth and ninth overall. The Brazilian pairing of Reinaldo Varela and Gustavo Gugelmin led the way for the Belgium-based team with a solid fourth overall. The Team Orlen duo of Marek […]