Former world rally champion Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz of Spain led an historic Volkswagen 1-2-3 in the 32nd Dakar Rally in Argentina on Saturday when they brought their Race Touareg home in a time of 47h 10min 00sec after 14 days and 9 000 km of marathon off road racing. It was an emphatic [...]
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Carlos Sainz heads historic 1-2-3 for Volkswagen
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2010 Dakar Rally Argentina-Chile Stage 12
Three Volkswagen Race Touaregs continue to occupy the top three places in the 32nd Dakar Rally with overall leaders Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz of Spain winning stage 12 between San Juan and San Raphael on Thursday and opening the gap to second-placed Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar and German Timo Gottschalk. Third today and still [...]
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2010 Dakar Rally Argentina-Chile Stage 11
Two punctures slowed overall leaders Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz on stage 11 of the Dakar Rally on Wednesday, with the Spanish pair finishing the 220 km special stage between Santiago and San Juan in ninth place, 7min 19sec behind the winning BMW X3 of Frenchman Guerlain Chicherit and Swede Tina Thorner. Second was the [...]
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2010 Dakar Rally Argentina-Chile Stage 10
Former world rally champion Carlos Sainz and co-driver Lucas Cruz won their first stage on this year’s Dakar Rally when they took their diesel-engined Volkswagen Race Touareg to victory in special stage 10 on Tuesday. Sainz, revelling in the world championship rally-type conditions of the 238-km stage between La Serena and Santiago in Chile, finished [...]
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2010 Dakar Rally Argentina-Chile Stage 9
Al-Attiyah wins third stage, De Villiers third. Nasser Al Attiyah won his third stage on the 2010 Dakar Rally on Monday and led home another Volkswagen 1-2-3 finish between Copiapo and La Serena in Chile. The Qatari and his German co-driver Timo Gottschalk finished 5min 59sec ahead of Spanish team-mates Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz [...]
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De Villiers loses out on first stage Dakar win 6km from finish
Defending Dakar Rally champion Giniel de Villiers was in top form on the eighth stage of this year’s edition of the world’s toughest motor race. During Stage 8, Giniel led the 472-km sprint from Antofagasta to Copiapo in Chile until stopped by two successive punctures on his Volkswagen Race Touareg within the last seven kilometres. [...]
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Miller and Pitchford Third in Dakar
Three Volkswagen Race Touaregs continue to lead the Dakar Rally after Thursday’s 418-km sixth stage from Antofagasta to Iquique in Chile. Spaniards Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz extended their lead over team-mates Nasser Al-Attiyah of Qatar and Timo Gottschalk of Germany to 15min 24sec. American Mark Miller and South African Ralph Pitchford, winners of Wednesday’s [...]
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Pitchford and Miller win their first stage; Volkswagens 1-2-3 overall
At the end of Stage 5 in the Dakar Rally in Argentina and Chile, South African off road champion co-driver Ralph Pitchford showed why he is regarded as one of the best in the world when he and American driver Mark Miller won the fifth stage of the Dakar Rally in Chile on Wednesday in [...]
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2010 Dakar Rally Stage 4 – Giniel Recovers to 20th
The top four positions in the Dakar Rally remain unchanged after Tuesday’s 163-km special stage four between Fiambala and Copiapo in Chile, with Volkswagen maintaining its strong showing among the leading cars. For the second day in a row Volkswagen Race Touaregs occupy three of the top four places. Spaniards Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz [...]
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Pitchford fourth overall, De Villiers sixth
Defending champions Volkswagen hit the front of the 2010 Dakar Rally in Argentina on Sunday with Qatar’s Nasser Al-Attiyah and Germany’s Timo Gottschalk winning the team’s first stage and assuming the overall lead after the first two days in his factory Race Touareg. Spain’s Carlos Sainz and France’s Michel Perin, fourth today, are second overall, [...]
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Strong start for De Villiers and Pitchford in the 2010 Dakar Rally
The South African/German combination of Giniel de Villiers and Dirk von Zitzewitz and the American/South African pairing of Mark Miller and Ralph Pitchford completed a successful first day on the 31st Dakar Rally in Argentina on Saturday when they completed the first of 14 stages in fifth and eighth places respectively in their factory Volkswagen [...]
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