Archive for Rally Raid
SAM 35 CC, rumors been around for a while – now it’s official: a new rally raid car is joining the competition. SAM – the three letters stand for “Saxony Automobile Manufacture”. With feedback by rally professionals and in collaboration with several technology partners the vision of Sven Knorr became reality: building the first innovative rally-raid car in compliance with the new FIA regulations for cross-country vehicles capable to compete in all rally raid events giving private teams chances to fight for one of the top ranks and keep operating cost in a feasible range. Read More→
Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 celebrates spectacular world debut.In a spectacular show the new Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 was unveiled to the public on Friday. The 310-hp cross-country rally prototype experienced its public debut in the impressive setting of the amphitheater in Trier alongside ancient chariots and gladiators. 1,000 spectators witnessed the presentation of the successor of model version 2, the car that decided the legendary Dakar Rally in its favor in 2009 and 2010. Volkswagen is set on bringing the “Dakar” trophy to Wolfsburg for the third time in a row in January 2011 with the Race Touareg 3 and is the only manufacturer so far to have decided the automobile classification of the desert classic in its favor with diesel power. From September 11 to 18 the new Race Touareg 3 will make its competitive debut at the Silk Way Rally through Russia.
More soon…. 8/24/2010 – 11:12hr
The BMW X-raid Team has announced its provisional team line-up for the 2011 Dakar Rally. The Trebur-based operation will field five BMW X3 CCs with Frenchman Stéphane Peterhansel being joined by Poland’s Krzysztof Holowczyc, Russia’s Leonid Novitskiy, Portugal’s Ricardo Leal Dos Santos and Germany’s Stephane Schott. The quintet will be co-driven by Frenchman Jean-Paul Cottret, Belgian Jean-Marc Fortin, German Andreas Schulz,Portugal’s Paulo Fiúza and German Holm Schmidt respectively, as X-raid team director Sven Quandt builds a team with valuable experience for the 2011 Dakar challenge in South America. “We are still in discussion with potential sponsors to finalize the program and our team line-up,” said X-Raid team director Sven Quandt. “But I am delighted to announce our provisional driver and co-driver line-up for the 2011 Dakar Rally. Our team has a wealth of experience with the rigors and demands of the Dakar and I am confident that we can achieve success in January.” Read More→
An evolution model that is as tough as nails: the Volkswagen Race Touareg 3 has completed three weeks of testing in Spain and Morocco with extreme success. The successor of the diesel prototype from the model range 2 that had been successful twice in the legendary Dakar Rally handled the more than double “Dakar” distance without any technical problems and thus proved to be well prepared to tackle the remainder of the program before the Dakar Rally’s start on 01 January 2011 in Buenos Aires and the world’s toughest desert rally itself. On 20 August the “RT3” will be presented to the public for the first time in “Dakar” trim in Trier (Germany). From 11 to 18 September it will make its competitive debut Read More→
Dust, mud, brain-melting heat at daytime, cold and damp nights, dirt or asphalt roads, treks in the forest, ravines and flat lands. Crossing big cities and little villages, contacting simple, caring and hospitable people. All this is part of Sertões International Rally. Besides the bold competition, the event is also a lesson for life according to the promoter. Competitors from all over the world face an unknown reality, with completely new landscapes. The harder it gets, the most pleasure to gain.. This is the way competitors and sertões’ people are. The contrast between scenario and characters is huge. Read More→
Baja Espana Aragon 2010 final results show that Team X-Raid X-raid was able to repeat the victory at Baja España Aragon (Baja Spain) in 2010 for the third consecutive year after winning the rally already in 2009 and 2008. Completing the perfect result for the team is Leonid Novitskiy and his co-driver Andreas Schulz who finished second place. Seven hours, 12 minutes and 21 seconds is the winning time for French driver Stéphane Peterhansel. It is his second Baja Espana win after 2007. The polish Nissan Navara pilot Holowczyc started as leader into the stage after his victory at Friday’s Super Special Stage Read More→
Everything ready to start the Baja 2010 in MotorLand Aragón. Everything is ready in MotorLand facilities to welcome the start of the 2010 Baja Spain, that will begin tomorrow. Today, most of the competitors have passed their administrative and technical checkings and scrutineering. Among them, all the Aragonese (local) drivers that will be running in the Monegro´s desert event: José Antonio Velilla, Emilio Eiroa, Vicente Colás, Enrique Arroyo, Fernando Domínguez and Javier Grasa. Read More→
The father and son combination of Karl-Heinz and Quintin Sullwald in the Elegant Fuel BAT romped home in an impressive victory this weekend in the Pilansberg. The former South African Champions led from start to finish to record their first victory of the season. Friday saw the start of the event with a tough and challenging 60km Donaldson Prologue to determine start positions for the race proper on Saturday. The Elegant Fuel BAT performed faultlessly and the duo recorded the fasted time on the day. “Today we enjoyed another clean run bar a couple of overshoots and we are happy to be at the front as dust will be a major factor tomorrow” stated Karl-Heinz. Saturday morning saw a cold Read More→
