SCORE Las Vegas Terrible’s Primm 300 desert race. Round 4 of the five-race 2010 SCORE Desert Series will be held Sept. 10-12 in Primm, Nev. While November’s season-ending 43rd Annual Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 race in Mexico will finalize the individual class and overall point champions for the 37th year of the world’s foremost desert racing series, the SCORE Las Vegas Terrible’s Primm 300 will surely determine the contenders for this year’s titles. The SCORE Las Vegas Terrible’s Primm 300 will feature 21 Pro and 2 Sportsman classes for cars and trucks in Primm, located 45 miles south of Las Vegas at the California border. This year’s starting grid is expected to reach nearly 125 vehicles. Read More→
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.
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Third overall, second in the Trophy Truck Class – my premiere in the top category of desert racing couldn’t have gone much better. Team boss Roger Norman had invited me to tackle the 540 mile race from Las Vegas to Reno in one of his Norman Motorsports 840hp Trophy Trucks. Roger took a lot of time explaining the giant rear wheel drive monster to me. Then I had about 20 miles to get familiar with the rear wheel drive racer. Roger did the qualifying. His GPS played up a bit, and so we had to be satisfied with 26th starting place. Normally Roger puts his cars amongst the top five starters. But the multiple Baja 1000 winner Read More→
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→
Vegas to Reno time trials did not work out soooo good for Roger Norman with a mid-twenties position about 23 seconds of the fastest overall pace set by Sam Berri and a few tenth following Berri the fastest Trophy Truck piloted by B.J. “Ballistic” Baldwin. O-ton Roger Norman “I blew the last turn before the timing gate and had to back up to avoid hitting a cone.” The Best in the Desert (BitD) Vegas to Reno is the longest off-road race in the USA with 534 miles to compete. So this time-gap might not be as crucial as at a considerable shorter race. According to our information will Roger Norman pass the Roger-Norman-Motorsports Read More→
B.J. Baldwin is one of the top race truck drivers out there. His garage is here in Las Vegas. He’s raced more than a hundred times and has never seen anything like this. His prayers go out to the families and the driver. “There shouldn’t be any blame on him or the sanctioning body or the spectators that got killed. I just think this is a freak accident and it could have happened to anybody, it could have happened to me,” Baldwin says.
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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→
