• Abu Dhabi’s Khalid Al-Qassimi set for second Toyota Hilux outing of season • Illness forces Vladimir Vasilyev to miss chance to extend FIA World Cup lead • Brazilian Varela and Pole Dabrowski bolster powerful Overdrive line-up • French duo of Vozniak and Brucy crew fourth Overdrive Racing Toyota Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Khalid Al-Qassimi will […]
From wide open spaces in Botswana to a tight and technical route in Mpumalanga is the challenge awaiting crews at round four of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, the Nkomazi 450, in Malalane on August 7 and 8. The Donaldson series is all about diversity and the difference between Toyota 1000 Desert Race conditions and […]
The entry list of Baja Aragon contained many surprises, especially in the cars’ category. The only vehicle missing is the Peugeot 2008DKR to have a debut in Teruel – that will happen at the Dakar. X-raid Mini comes with six cars including FIA World Cup leader Vasilyev and reigning Dakar champion Nani Roma, Toyota Overdrive with […]
Four-time World Rally Championship runner-up Mikko Hirvonen is set to make his debut in the Dakar Rally next year with Mini All4 Racing. The Finnish rally driver will prepare for the prestigious event by competing in selected rounds of the 2015 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup, starting with Spain’s Baja Aragon on the 24-26 […]
Werner Kennedy and Thinus Venter tightened their hold on the Special Vehicle overall and Class P titles when they won the Beesfees 250, the fourth round of the Northern Regions Cross Country Championship, in Stella over the weekend. Kennedy and Venter, in an Aceco, came in ahead of Francois Smit/Craig Galvin (Jetpatcher Isuzu Racing Zarco) […]
The Liquorland WFO White Mountain National Enduro, the penultimate race in the 2015 national series that took place in the Estcourt area in KwaZulu-Natal this past weekend (July 4th) had to be ‘handled with care’ and while a few championship leaders added more victories to their challenges, the race destroyed title hopes for other. The […]
Former champions Evan Hutchison and Danie Stassen took full advantage of the window of opportunity offered by the Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race, round three of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, to take control of the Special Vehicle championship at the halfway mark of the season. The iconic desert event, the only marathon race […]
Castrol Toyota Hilux crews continued with their winning ways on the recent Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race, round three of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, and at the halfway mark in the season have all but turned the Production Vehicle championship into a two horse race. Leeroy Poulter/Rob Howie and reigning champions Anthony Taylor […]
After 12 participations and 5 victories on the Dakar as a biker, Marc Coma has been called upon to assist Etienne Lavigne as sporting director of the event. The Spaniard will be devoting his passion for the Dakar to helping the organisers, starting this week: he will be spending part of July carrying out […]
Yes, anything can still happen in the 2015 Liquorland National Enduro Championship and competitors will have to do everything right at the fifth round of the season, the Liquorland WFO White Mountain National Enduro that takes place this weekend (July 4th) at Estcourt in KwaZulu-Natal. Competitors only have two more chances to score points in […]
The Motorite BAT Viper pair of Evan Hutchison and Danie Stassen completed an almost perfect weekend when they won heat two in the Special Vehicle category at the Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race, round three of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, which ended here Sunday. Former South African champions Hutchison and Stassen finished just […]
Reigning South African champions Anthony Taylor and Dennis Murphy today gave the Castrol Team Toyota Hilux factory team a Production Vehicle double for the weekend when they won heat two of the Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race, round three of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, which ended here today. Taylor and Murphy, who won […]
Overdrive Racing Toyota Hiluxes finished second, third and fourth overall in the 22nd Italian Baja, round five of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, which took place over five special stages and finished at Pordenone in north-eastern Italy on Sunday afternoon. Nasse Al-Attiyah wins again. The Brazilian duo of Reinaldo Varela and Gustavo Gugelmin […]
The Donaldson Cross Country Championship moves to Botswana this weekend, for the iconic Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race – arguably Southern Africa’s toughest motorsport event. In 2014 Castrol Team Toyota achieved a stunning one-two victory on the two-day event, helping winners Anthony Taylor and Dennis Murphy to overall victory in the championship, in their […]
The stakes will be high for Special Vehicle category teams locked in stalemate situations at the top of the overall and class championships when they head for the Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race, round three of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, from June 26 to 28. The iconic event is the halfway mark in […]
The iconic Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race from June 26 to 28, round three of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, has all the ingredients to emerge as the definitive event in this year’s Production Vehicle championship. The Botswana race represents the halfway mark in the Donaldson series and after two events, Castrol Team Toyota […]
• Overdrive Racing enters three Toyota Hiluxes in Italian Baja • Vasilyev joined by Varela and Dabrowski in northern Italy • Russian Zheludov and Kazakh Shagirov drive Overdrive-supplied Toyotas Defending FIA World Cup champion, Vladimir Vasilyev, has joined Overdrive Racing and will tackle this weekend’s 22nd Italian Baja, round five of the FIA World Cup […]
Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) is to enter an Outlander PHEV, the only twin-motor 4WD in production today, in the Baja Portalegre 500 cross-country rally due to be held in the Portalegre municipality in the eastern part of Portugal from October 22nd to October 24th this year. The specially developed vehicle will be driven by Hiroshi […]
Red Bull KTM Factory rider Matthias Walkner of Austria made it a special day for KTM on Thursday when he took victory in the Sardegna Rally Race, Round Four of the FIM World Cross Countries Rally Championship on the Italian island of Sardinia. Walkner is in his first full season with the KTM Factory Team […]
The 21st edition of the Erzberg Rodeo took place in Eisenerz, Austria, this past weekend where 1,844 fearless competitors entered to conquer the Iron Giant. Only 500 competitors would qualify for Sunday’s main race, the Erzberg Rodeo, after a qualifying ‘prologue’ that took place both Friday and Saturday. Brother Leader Tread KTM’s Wade Young qualified […]
Racing with the discipline and patience of a much older and more experienced desert racer, 20-year old Carlos Lopez of Tecate, Mexico, blazed past a field that included the world’s best desert racers to capture the overall and SCORE Trophy Truck victory Saturday at the 47th Bud Light SCORE Baja 500 desert race. Round three […]
The Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) and its President Nasser Al-Attiyah are leading the way in helping to encourage more women into motor sport. The Federation, in association with the FIA Women in Motorsport Commission (WIMC), today announced it will host a worldwide women’s cross country rally selection and training programme which will result […]
The Stella Bush2Bush Challenge, the fourth round of the TOTPAK National Off-road Motorcycle and Quad Championship that took place at Stella in the North-West Province on June 6th, lived up to the expectations and produced some great racing action in all the classes despite a chilly start to race day with temperatures dropping below zero […]
Competitors familiar with the Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race will not be surprised to hear the route for this year’s race, from June 26 to 28, will pose a “demanding challenge” with crews being made to work for good results on the only marathon event on the Donaldson Cross Country Championship. The race is […]
By Alyssa Roenigk THE WORDS ECHO in my memory, cutting through the quiet darkness of 4 a.m. like a French-accented razor blade: “Bonjour, Gazelles! Il est quatre heures!” “Hello, Gazelles! It is 4 a.m.!” For nine days in April, the voice of Rallye Aicha des Gazelles founder Dominique Serra was the alarm that started […]
The Kalahari beckons and it is time for the 2015 junior and senior off-road championships to head to Stella where the fourth round of the TOTPAK National Championship and the third round of the Raslouw Academy Junior National Championship will take place on Saturday, June 6th. It is the second consecutive year that the national […]
Story by: Ferdi de Vos Eight-times South African Off-Road racing champion and a legend in South African motor sport, Apie Reyneke, has been killed in a helicopter crash near Delareyville, North-West Province. His wife Yolande and teenage son Abraham were seriously injured and are in a Pretoria hospital.Reyneke (58), owner of Serapa Safari which […]
South Racing enjoyed a successful campaign at the five-stage Desafio Ruta 40, the first hurdle of the Dakar Series 2015 in Argentina. The team entered four cars in the gruelling South American event and three teams reached the finish in third, fifth and eighth overall. Czech driver Peter Jerie and his French navigator Laurent […]
‘I have number one’, says Nasser Al-Attiyah with a smile, after winning the Pharaons 2015. It was not an easy win. Last years’ winner Yazeed was fast but could not keep up as the pace of the leaders in the Worldcup Cross Country seems to go up race after race. Piatek wins the bike […]
‘I need number one’, said Nasser Al-Attiyah last year at the start of the Pharaons Rally. He lost in the first stage, and this year there is only one stage between him and the victory. The route to Caïro is rough, the tension is high and we expect fireworks on the stage tomorrow as the […]
‘We kept our lead in the overal ranking,’ says Nasser Al-Attiyah with a smile, so even though he lost time to todays winner Yazeed Al Rajhi he still has two days to secure or loose his first position in the Pharaons. Erik van Loon finishes as third, a great result after two bad days: […]
‘We were alone in the desert,’ says Matthieu Baumel, navigator of Nasser Al-Attiyah, who managed to take the lead in the overall ranking. ‘No bikes, no quads, no tracks ahead of us. We were opening the stage and this is nice from a navigation point of view but the cars behind us will always be […]
‘My goal is to win here in Egypt,’ says Yazeed Al Rajhi in Al Alamein, at the start of the Pharaons Rally. Last year he did, when he was the first at the Pyramids in Caïro. This year the Pharaons Rally is the turning point in the FIA Worldcup Cross Country, with all the fast […]
Castrol Team Toyota achieved an epic one-two victory on the legendary Sugarbelt 450, Round 2 of the Donaldson Cross-Country Championship this weekend. Leeroy Poulter and navigator Rob Howie made it two victories from two starts in the 2015 season, when they lead the race from start to finish. Defending champions Anthony Taylor and Dennis Murphy […]
Sugarbelt 450 victory cements early season championship lead Castrol Team Toyota pair Leeroy Poulter and Rob Howie today won the Sugarbelt 450, round two of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, to extend their early lead in the Production Vehicle title chase. It was a second win in a row for Poulter/Howie, in the Castrol […]
Local driver Lance Trethewey and Geoff Minnitt romped to a Special Vehicle victory on the Sugarbelt 450, round two of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship, which ended here this weekend. Trethewey and Minnitt, in the LT Earthworks BAT Venom, came home ahead of former South African champions Evan Hutchison and Danie Stassen (Motorite BAT Viper) […]
The Ford Performance team of Lance Woolridge and co-driver Ward Huxtable scored their second podium in a row by finishing third overall on the Sugarbelt 450, round two of the Donaldson Cross Country Championship which finished in Eston, KwaZulu-Natal this weekend. In what were hot, dry and extremely dusty conditions, the Pietermaritzburg-based crew led […]
It was a dream two-time Dakar class winner Darren Skilton and Daker veteran Scott Whitney had for years. Last week, the partners successfully launched the first annual Cortez Rally, a true off-road navigation rally coming for the first time to the deserts of North America. The three-day event featured competition through intoxicating and massive sand […]
Overdrive Racing has sent three Toyotas Hiluxes to the Pharoans Rally in Egypt and Yazeed Al-Rajhi, Reinaldo Varela and Marek Dabrowski will represent the Belgian team at the fourth round of the 2015 World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. The event starts out from El Alamein on May 12 and finishes in Cairo on May 16. […]
The Ashton National Enduro, the fourth round of the Liquorland National Enduro Motorcycle Championship that took place in the scenic Ashton / Bonnievale area in the Western Cape, was described as ‘one of the toughest events on the calendar’ and riders had to be physically and mentally prepared for the challenge that took place on […]