Puro Offroad

First competition contested with the Volkswagen Race Touareg, second leg, first win: in the second of the seven legs of the Central Europe Rally, Germany’s Dieter Depping gave Volkswagen their second leg win. Together with his co-driver, Timo Gottschalk, the 41-year old completed the addition of the two selective and particularly demanding special stages held around the Romanian city of Baia Mare faster than anybody else, thus moving up to third position in the overall standings.
At the same time, Volkswagen Motorsport holds additional top position in the overall standings: Carlos Sainz/Michel Périn (E/F), the winners of leg one, hold the runner-up position, 22 seconds behind the current leader, Stéphane Peterhansel (Mitsubishi). Giniel de Villiers/Dirk von Zitzewitz (RSA/D), however, lost some time due to a windscreen-wiper problem and will start into the third day of the rally from ninth place, behind Carlos Sousa/Andreas Schulz (P/D) in the Race Touareg 2 of customer team Lagos. Altogether, four Race Touaregs hold top-ten positions. Read the rest of this entry »

Armin get’s Armin! After his victory at the second leg of the SCORE offroad series at the San Felipe 250 in his class Armin Schwarz is getting team support. The first ever win of a German driver at the unlimited Buggy Class 1 in history of Baja and desert racing inspired the AMG team to start from the next race with another Class 1 Buggy. As driver is Armin Kremer, Rallye-European champ 2001 (Toyota) and Asia-Pacific-Rallye-Champ 2003 (Mitsubishi) announced. The next race, May 30th - June 1st. is the Baja 500 also”little Baja” called. Let’s see how Martin Christensen’s All German Motorsport Team performance is with 2 German drivers.