The fifth round of the 2010 Intercontinental Rally Challenge, the Rally d’Italia Sardegna, sees the series return to loose surface action this weekend. Having been a qualifying rally for the WRC in recent years, this time sees the Mediterranean island event figure on the calendar of the IRC for the very first time. To mark [...]
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Peugeot 207 Super 2000s Target Top of the Podium Return
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2010 Total Rally of South Africa Results
The top 10 awards in the 2010 Total Rally of South Africa, which took place from 28 to 29 May went to: Toyota Castrol Team – Johnny Gemmell and Drew Sturrock – Toyota Auris BP Volkswagen Racing – Jan Habig and Ralph Pitchford – Volkswagen Polo Team Total- JP Damseaux and Carolyn Swan – Toyota [...]
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Rally of South Africa Sees Full Strength Castrol Team
The Castrol Team Toyota rally team is back at full strength with Johnny Gemmell supported by regular navigator Drew Sturrock once again. Sturrock travels down from his native Scotland for each round of the Sasol South African Rally Championship and had his travel plans for the last event disrupted by the Iceland volcano ash cloud [...]
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South African National ABSA Off Road Championship
Pretoria, May 17, 2010 – Team Ford Racing is eager to impress in front of their home crowd with its diesel powered derivatives at round three of this year’s ABSA Off Road Championship. The Atlas Copco Sugarbelt 400 will take place in KwaZulu-Natal on 21st and 22nd May. Centred in and around the Beaumont Eston [...]
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Home Turf Team Looking Forward to Sugarbelt 400
The Castrol Team Toyota Off Road team will be looking to succeed on ‘home’ turf in the Atlas Copco Sugarbelt 400 that takes place on the 21st and 22nd of May. The event, considered one of the tougher and more popular events in the eight event ABSA Off Road Championship, takes place in the Eston [...]
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Team PIRTEK Win Privateer Challenge at SASOL Rally
This past weekend saw the running of the 19th SASOL Rally in the Sabie, White River and Nelspruit area of Mpumalanga and Team PIRTEK knew that they had to capitalise on their past successes. Heinrich Lategan and Visser du Plessis were ready and felt confident that the preparation, setup and practice efforts put into the [...]
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Excitement Builds Ahead of SASOL Rally
The South African Motorsport Club has a rich history going back more than 50 years and on the weekend of the 23rd and 24th of April 2010 it will again host the running of the 19th SASOL Rally in the Sabie, White River and Nelspruit area of Mpumalanga. 45 Teams are expected to fall under [...]
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Lategan flies Team PIRTEK’S flag at Toyota Dealer Rally
This past weekend saw no less than 31 of South Africa’s top national rally teams descend on the Overberg town of Caledon. From the start, the atmosphere was electric; the pace was going to be blisteringly fast and the margin for error – zero. The Western Cape Toyota Dealer Rally was second of eight events [...]
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Solid Start to Rally Season
The 2010 rally season started well for Toyota Motorpsort with Mark Cronje taking his brand new Toyota Team Castrol Auris S2000 to third place overall with two special stage wins in the Total Tour Natal Rally, the first of eight rounds in the championship. Japie van Niekerk, New Africa Developments Auris S2000, added to Toyota’s [...]
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Tricky Second Mexican Leg for Ford
BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team climbed the leaderboard during today’s second leg of Rally Mexico to put itself on course for a valuable points finish in this second round of the FIA World Rally Championship. Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila lie fourth in their Ford Focus RS World Rally Car with team-mates Mikko [...]
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Major Carnage at Total Tour Natal Rally
The more things change, the more they stay the same, and so it proved when the Sasol South African Rally Championship got underway in perfectly sunny and swelteringly hot conditions this past weekend. After facing unprecedented changes throughout the field during a hectic off-season, the old guard established themselves as firm title favourites. Hergen Fekken [...]
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Tough Times for Ford in Mexico
BP Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team endured a predictably tough opening to Rally Mexico today as dry and dirty conditions hampered their challenge on this second round of the FIA World Rally Championship. Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila are fifth in a Ford Focus RS World Rally Car, while team-mates and championship leaders Mikko [...]
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Top Class SA Rallying Welcomes Ford Back
Rallying in South Africa has been given a big shot in the arm with the announcement that Ford, one of the most revered names in the history of this discipline of motor sport, is returning to the fray in the top class after an absence of more than a decade. During this period only two [...]
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Ford Launches 2010 Title Bid
Ford’s record-breaking Focus RS World Rally Car begins a remarkable 12th season as the company’s challenger in the FIA World Rally Championship in Sweden next week. The car, which won back-to-back manufacturers’ world titles in 2006 and 2007 and secured Ford’s longest winning run in the WRC with five successive victories last season, will carry [...]
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Ken Block’s Monster Ford Fiesta Ready
American action sports icon Ken Block, who already has a huge fan base in Europe through the internet, kicks off his relationship with Ford Motor Company this weekend. His Monster World Rally Team debuts the exciting new Monster Fiesta Rally America car at the Sno*Drift Rally (29 – 30 January) in Atlanta, Michigan. Monster World [...]
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