The Regent Racing team will provide for an additional international flavour in the Production Vehicle category in this year’s Donaldson Cross Country Championship. An experienced Portuguese team in driver Rómulo Branco and co-driver João Serôdio will join a six-car Regent Racing team in this year’s championship, which opens with the RFS Endurance in Harrismith on […]
Abu Dhabi Racing’s WRC star Sheikh Khalid Al-Qassimi will team up with Overdrive Racing to tackle the 25th Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge (ADDC), the second round of the 2015 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. The event starts on Saturday, March 28 and finishes on Thursday, April 2, after five punishing desert selective sections through […]
The Saudi Arabian Motor Federation (SAMF) has confirmed that a record 56 competitors will tackle this week’s 10th Ha’il International Cross-Country Rally, which gets underway with the ceremonial start and then a timed super special stage on Thursday afternoon (March 19). The event will run for a further three days over a trio of gruelling […]
Lots of things can happen in nine years – the format of a national series can change (and it did); riders come and go and the racing technology gets better. An important change for the 2015 TOTPAK National Off-road Motorcycle and Quad Championship, was the decision to take the series back to Swaziland and off-road […]
Competitors will be thrown in at the deep end with a challenging new route for the RFS Endurance, the opening round of this year’s Donaldson Cross Country Championship, in Harrismith on March 27 and 28. The series has a fresh look about it this year with the calendar reduced from eight to six events with […]
After an absence of nine years, the sound of off-road motorcycle and quad engines will again be heard in Swaziland when this country hosts a round of the South African National Off-road Championship. The event, the ‘Swazi Cowboyz 400’, will form the second round of the 2015 TOTPAK SA National Off-road Championship and will take […]
MINI is set to capitalise on early season success in the 2015 FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup with no less than seven MINI ALL4 Racing machines lined up to contest the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge (27 March – 2 April). Following a positive season opener for MINI at the Baja Russia (20 – 22 […]
The first and second round of the Liquorland South African Enduro championship were pencilled down as a double header event for this past weekend with its base at Middleton Dam, just outside of Creighton, a 1h 30min south westerly drive from Pietermaritzburg. The rolling hills and forests of the Creighton area made for a stunning […]
For the third consecutive year, the world’s toughest off-road race vehicles will parade down world famous Las Vegas Strip during the 4 Wheel Parts Mint 400 Vehicle Parade. This year, the parade will span fourteen miles, beginning at South Point Hotel & Casino and stretch all the way to Fremont Street, officially kicking off the […]
The Liquorland National Enduro Motorcycle Championship is known for gruelling racing and the competition is extremely tough. To compete in two rounds of the 2015 national season on two consecutive days with racing taking place at the beginning of the season, is not easy on competitors. This is however, exactly what competitors did when they […]
The Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, as if it needed more reason to celebrate, was officially confirmed on Wednesday as the FIA World Cup’s top-ranking cross-country rally. The annual week-long endurance race will mark its 25th anniversary when it starts on March 27 and the foundations set over the past two-and-a-half decades have led to the […]
The 2015 SA Liquorland National Enduro Motorcycle Championship kicks off this weekend (7 and 8 March) with two of the season’s six rounds that will take place at Creighton in KwaZulu-Natal. This ‘double-header’ will test competitors at the beginning of the new season, but they can walk away with a healthy amount of points after […]
A stunning comeback took Andrew and Zelma Beer, in a BAT, to overall victory in the LMC Mega World Barberspan 500, round two of the Northern Regions Cross Country Championship. The Beers started the day in 16th place overall and ninth in the Special Vehicle category, and then scythed their way through the field to […]
The Benoni-based father and son team of Tony and Michael Gouveia led the way in yesterday’s qualifying race for the LMC Mega Centre Barberspan 500, round two of the Northern Regions Cross Country Championship, here today. The Gouveias, in a BAT, led home a quartet of Class P cars as Special Vehicle entries dominated the […]
BMW ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE – AN “ON-CALLED-FOR” STORY! At some stage in life, you will walk around in a showroom admiring a car imagining yourself driving it. The salesperson will talk non-stop, assuring you that what you are looking at, is the best ever, but the final push over the buying-edge will probably be the […]
With “conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty” as a description of his military service, Marine Corp Sgt. Dakota Meyer is already an unmitigated badass. But now, the 26-year-old can add “race car driver” right below “Medal of Honor recipient” to his impressive resume. Sgt. […]
The final round of the Emirates Desert Championship next weekend has gone up a notch in prestige with the unexpected participation of reigning five-time Dakar Rally champion Marc Coma.The six-time FIM world champion rider has been drafted in by KTM-UAE to contest the climax of the country’s national Baja series on March 6. The one-day […]
Overdrive Racing’s Tapio Suominen and Toni Nasman narrowly missed out on taking outright victory in Baja Russia Northern Forest ’15 and finished second overall behind their rival all-Finnish crew of Jouni-Matti Ampuja and Markku Antero Hurskainen. Snowdrifts, deep ruts and treacherous conditions made the event a real test of man and machine and a fitting […]
. More than 130 participants have registered for Desert Storm 2015. The six-day extreme event across categories (XTreme, NDure XPlore and Moto Quad) covers 2300 kms, starting from New Delhi to drive through Sardarshahar, Bikaner, Jaisalmer and concludes at Jaipur on March 1, 2015. Participants will need to overcome varied terrains, sand dunes, dried […]
A combination of extreme weather conditions; a new format for the TOTPAK National Off-road Championship and a route that took competitors through diamond diggings and farms in the Rysmierbult area outside Ventersdorp in the North-West Province, resulted in an excellent first round of the junior* and senior off-road motorcycle and quad racing season this past […]
Ford South Africa’s motorsport activities have been united for the 2015 season with the launch of its motorsport programme under the new Ford Performance brand. “Ford remains committed to innovation through performance, and the new global Ford Performance team ties together racing, performance vehicles and parts,” says Tracey Delate, Marketing Manager, Ford Motor Company of […]
Changes to calendar, event format and points allocations This year’s Donaldson Cross Country Championship will open with the RFS Endurance Race in Harrismith on March 27 and 28, and will herald in exciting changes to the national series. The changes include a reduced calendar and revamped event formats and points allocations. The changes, put […]
A number of top crews will be looking to bounce back to form on the LMC Mega Centre Barberspan 500, round two of the Northern Regions Cross Country Championship, in North West Province on February 27 and 28. The opening round of the championship last month, the Vredefort 250, saw some of the more fancied […]
Officials at the Saudi Arabian Motor Federation (SAMF) have now completed the route reconnaissance and detailed road book for the 10th Ha’il International Cross-Country Rally, which will take place across the north-central region of the Kingdom on March 19-22. A party of senior race officials, including Ahmed Mutabaghani, Elie Semaan and László Polgár, have just […]
By: Neil Perkins • Entries for QMMF’s new-look Sealine event open tomorrow (Thursday) • QMMF announces over 1,750km of competition for car, bike and quad entrants The Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation (QMMF) has laid on five demanding desert selective sections for car, bike and quad entrants taking part in this year’s Sealine Cross-Country Rally, […]
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! Yes, after a break of four months, it is time for the national off-road motorcycle and quad season to resume and from the feedback after the launch and announcement of the 2015 season, one can safely say that some exciting racing can be expected this weekend (21 February) at […]
By Neil Perkins • Brazil’s Reinaldo Varela and Pole Marek Dabrowski to drive two Toyotas • Former Finnish WRC co-driver Tapio Suominen joins Overdrive for first time • New-look route pushes further north into Karelia and Finnish border country No sooner has the dust settled on another exciting and successful Dakar Rally foray and Belgium-based […]
If the Baja 1000 or Paris-Dakar is too wimpy for you, consider the King of the Hammers. There has always been this network of really rugged 4×4 trails out in Johnson Valley in the Mojave Desert, each of which had a variation on a “Hammer” name — Jack Hammer, Sledge Hammer, Claw Hammer — and […]
It is the first time that Karelia hosts the celebrated series of FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, the first round of which is to take place in the heart of the republic’s territory from 20 to 22 of February.A meeting of the baja’s organizing committee presided by the Deputy Head of Karelia for social […]
By: Robb Pritchard In 2007 12 guys played in these rocky eastern California hills for a 6 pack of beer. 8 years later a whole new series, a global series, of cars are built for just King of Hammers. To put that into perspective, with just 15 more vehicles entered the King of the Hammers […]
Competitors, sponsors and enthusiasts can expect a new level of excitement when the first rounds of the 2015 TOTPAK National Off-road Motorcycle and Quad Championship and the Raslouw Academy Junior National Championship kick off on 21 February in the Rysmierbult area outside Ventersdorp in the North-West Province. For the first time in the recent history […]
Once again, on Friday, February 6, 2015, the Kind of the Hammers comes to “Hammertown”, located on Mean’s Dry Lake in Johnson Valley, CA. This is one of the major events from Ultra4 racing. You can expect to see more than 300 teams competing with more than 35,000 sports fans and 4×4 enthusiasts attending. Their unlimited […]
The international Africa Eco Race 2015 rally, in which a natural gas-fueled sports truck on the KAMAZ-Master team took part, finished in Senegal Sunday.. Following the results of 12 stages, the gas-fueled KAMAZ driven by Sergey Kupriyanov made it to the top three in the overall standing of the race. The awards ceremony of the Africa […]
Ingo Waldschmidt, Namibia’s enduro rider finished in third overall in the Africa Eco Race, which ended in Dakar, Senegal, last Sunday.He is expected back home in Namibia tomorrow and all motor sport lovers have been urged to give him a hero’s welcome, as he jets in at the Hosea Kutako International Airport. Waldschmidt was among […]
The sun is finally back in Mauritania, bringing along more consistent temperatures to the region and giving a boost to the caravan of the Africa Eco Race 2015 to begin the final stretch of the rally. Good mood was present this morning at the bivouac of Azougui where the start of the 367 km long […]
Even if the day was difficult for a lot of people on Tuesday, only three vehicles did not make it to the bivouac in Azougui on Wednesday morning – Noel ESSERS and his truck are still stuck in the dunes as well as David FRETIGNE and Bernard MONTAZ who have their bikes on the balai […]
The penultimate Moroccan stage of the 2015 Africa Eco Race saw a big descent towards Southern Morocco with a very technical leg between Assa and Oued Aarraid.A very violent wind was sweeping the finish line not far away from As Sakn, when Pal Anders ULLEVALSETER crossed the line in 1st position as he has done […]
Yesterday’s stage was the longest one in kilometers as a special stage on the Africa Eco Race 2015. It was also one of the most complete with various African landscapes and of course, the Chegaga Erg which is always a delicate part of the stage in termes of Navigation and steering. Anyhow, even if there […]
After a first day with a lot of animation and as planned, the competitors of the 2015 Africa Eco Race started the second stage, long of 377 km between Merzouga and Mahmid, with a lot of enthousiasme ! A course which was appreciated by all and which gave the opportunity to Pal Anders ULLEVALSETER to […]
Temperature was reaching just above 5°C around 9h45am when the first bike crossed the finish line of stage 1 of the AFRICA ECO RACE® 2015 set near Guersif in the west suburbs of Nador. As we could have expected, Pal Anders ULLEVALESETER didn’t make a single error in the bikes category, as well as Jacky LOOMANS […]