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→
The Sun City 400 is traditionally one of the toughest events on the Absa Off Road Championship calendar, and this year’s race on July 16 and 17 will be no different. The Pilanesberg race signals the end of a lengthy break in ABSA series proceedings for the Fifa World Cup, and the off road community will be raring to go. Normally round five of the Absa Off Road Championship the Sun City 400, because of reshuffles to the calendar to accommodate landowners and weather conditions, is this year round four of the championship. “The slight reshuffle of dates does not mean the race is going to be any easier,” said race director Adri Roets. “Competitors can expect another varied and interesting route that will take in bushveld, rocky sections and river crossings. Read More→
Team Toyo recently gained two new off-road members, Aaron Daugherty, Lucas Oil Off Road Series Pro Lite Unlimited driver and Damen Jefferies, SCORE-International Trophy Truck driver. Daugherty, from Las Vegas, Nevada, drives the Daugherty Racing 2009 Ford Ranger equipped with Toyo Open Country M/T tires. Powered by a 2.3-liter four cylinder engine pumped full of steroids, his truck competes in short course off-road racing where the equipment is hammered into submission during each event. With the inclusion of Daugherty, Team Toyo now has drivers competing in all of the pro ranks in the truck classes, including Pro 2 Unlimited and Pro 4 Unlimited. Read More→
The VW Race Touareg was the dominant car at the last Dakar Rally in South America. VW intents to continue it’s winning streak and the race car for the 2011 Dakar just completed a major r&d and testing program in the European alps. A prototype photographer catches the Race Touareg at the brake test. When this years winner Carlos Sainz and the other team drivers at New Year’s day go racing again in South America, the pilots can rely on their racing machine. It’s not a secret yet the results show the past years: preparation rules! The Volkswagen Race Touareg absolves an extensive test program at regular roads. In the Read More→
1st Place for Leonid Novitskiy and Andreas Schulz in Rally TT Vodafone Estoril-Portimao-Marrakech 2010, the third round of the FIA Cross Country World Cup and fifth of Portuguese Championship. The Portuguese duo Filipe Campos and Jaime Baptista finished on 2nd position just six minutes behind the Russian. The third BMW X3CC driver Bernardo Moniz da Maia placed 6th position in overall with his co-driver Joana Sotto-Mayor from Portugal. The BMW X5 driver Ricardo Leal dos Santos managed to finish the rally on 4th place in overall classement. After winning the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge 2010 Read More→
Filipe Campos (BMW X3CC), the only leader so far of the Rally TT Vodafone Estoril-Portimão-Marrakech, kept his first place after the fifth day of the third round of Cross Country Rally World Cup. The Porto’s driver managed to hold the more predictable attack Leonid Novitskiy (BMW X3CC) in the second stage held in Morocco (Rachidia Er/Er Rachidia, with 338.4 km) and will start tomorrow’s Erfourd stage as the fastest driver of the race organized by Automóvel Club de Portugal.
“It was a different day than I’m used to. No references, no times information along the route. Only at the end is that he knew if we had been good or bad! Read More→
Goodbye Rally TT Transibérico, welcome Rally TT Vodafone Estoril-Portimão-Marrakech. The challenge planned by Automóvel Club de Portugal (ACP) for a different race of the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies is a reality and caused enormous enthusiasm among all authorities and sponsors involved in another great international ACP organization. Replacing the annual Rally Transiberico the Rally TT Vodafone EPM is organized by the Automotive Club of Portugal and represents the crux of the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies season and one of the longest, most high profile rallies this side of the Dakar. Looking at the previous winners of this event one can see how influential this event has been (Jean-Louis Schlesser, Ari Vatanen, Ginel de Villiers, Carlos Sainz, Luc Alphand, Guerlain Chicherit, and Carlos Sousa). The race will eventually cross into Africa for four days of racing there. Read More→
Team General Tire came to Baja this week focused on winning. By the time the dust had settled early Sunday morning, that’s exactly how it played out. The KORE Racing Team led by Kent Kroeker won Class 8 in their first year competing in this class since moving up from Stock Full. “Ballistic” BJ Baldwin of Baldwin Motorsports, took third place overall as well as in the Trophy Truck class, Rick D. Johnson took sixth place in the Trophy Truck class; more than 40 trophy trucks Read More→
