After clinching their fourth stage victory at the Rallye dos Sertões the Volkswagen factory duo Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz Senra (E/E) has taken the outright lead. On the ninth leg of the cross-country rally through Brazil Sainz/Cruz Senra mastered the demanding route from Juazeiro do Norte to Caicó by setting the day’s fastest time and relegated Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D), who finished the special stage as the runners-up, to second overall. The duo that drives a 280-hp Race Touareg from Wolfsburg as well missed a branch-off while being the leading vehicle shortly before the stage ended, Read More→
The Volkswagen duos Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) as well as Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz Senra (E/E) continue fighting for overall victory at the Rallye dos Sertões, with gaps of just a few minutes between them. On the seventh leg of the cross-country rally through Brazil Al-Attiyah/Gottschalk clinched their fifth stage win and took the lead again in the interim standings in front of their team-mates Sainz/Cruz Senra. The 548-kilometer stage between Barra and Petrolina again took the three factory prepared Race Touareg vehicles across narrow trails with deep, soft sand and put the drivers and co-drivers as well as the material to the test. The third Volkswagen duo Read More→
French Dakar legend Stéphane Peterhansel has signed for theTrebur-based X-raid team and will rekindle his winning partnership with regular codriver Jean-Paul Cottret in a BMW X3 CC! Forty-three-year-old Peterhansel is the most successful driver/rider in the history of the grueling Dakar Rally and has taken victory on six occasions on a Yamaha motorcycle and three times in a car with the Mitsubishi factory team. When the Japanese manufacturer announced its withdrawal from motor sport after this the last Dakar Rally in South America, X-raid team director Sven Quandt took the opportunity to recruit Peterhansel/Cottret. Read More→
Thanks to TDI power: Volkswagen takes 1-2-3-stage win in Brazil - Volkswagen celebrated another stage victory at the Rallye dos Sertoes: On the fifth leg of the cross-country rally through Brazil Nasser Al-Attiyah/Timo Gottschalk (Q/D) set the fastest time ahead of their team colleagues Mauricio Neves/Eduardo Bampi (BR/BR) and Carlos Sainz/Lucas Cruz Senra (E/E). The diesel technology of the 280-hp Race Touareg provided a crucial advantage: The 539-kilometer stage from Palmas to Luis Eduardo Magalhães was marked by quick gravel stretches with long flat-out passages as well as by trial-like segments where the high torque of the 2.5-litre TDI engines was advantageous. Read More→
With all the going back live online with Puro Off Road and then a “over-night” action to change the layout for more user friendliness we are wayyyy behind in posting - heck we aint have the old posts from the Baja 1000 in 2006 or 2007 “dressed’ up yet… Today’s images are all by Rafa Carballo and total 383 photos from the Pueblo Magico 300 desert race at the southern Baja. There are tons of more pics, also with Quads and motorcycles to come. We may split them to another website to keep the load down on the server. We seen that the baja race fans enjoy what we offer by the amount on page calls and image views we can follow up. Again - Puro Off Road is for ALL Baja Sur racers and race fans and we encourage Read More→
Here are a few nice shots, in less nice quality - at least the ones from the Coyote 300 Race have lot’s of room for improvement, See the baja racers pass by at Carambullo with the trophy trucks first. The other video we got our hands on is from/by Jesse James and the trailer for the Baja 300 Power days in Germany in just a few weeks. An event to introduce the off-road and desert racing to the European motor sport fans. They sure will like it even if the desert is missing…… Read More→
Press release Team x-raid: Frenchman Guerlain Chicherit and Swedish co-driver Tina Thörner noticeably eased their pace over the final leg of the 2009 Transiberico Rally between Beja and Estoril in Portugal, but did enough to clinch outright victory in the final round of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. The result also confirmed the FIA World Cup title for the Frenchman and his BMW X-raid team. It was the second successive FIA World Cup success for the Trebur-based X-raid team – Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah won the title in his BMW X3 CC in 2008 – and the third in total for Sven Quandt’s ever-improving team.
Chicherit inherited Read More→
