Vos and Howie score at Atlas Copco Timbertrack 400
Former South African champions Duncan Vos Rob Howie clinched their second win in the ABSA Off Road championship.
Ford triumphs at Human Auto 400
Team Ford’s Chris Visser and Japie Badenhorst notched up their second win of this season in their Ranger TDCi machine at the Human Auto 400 at the weekend.
Gordon gains, Peterhansel extends
American Robby Gordon took his first stage victory of this year’s edition of The Dakar, bringing his Hummer in just a second faster than multiple Dakar winner, Stephane Peterhansel’s BMW X-Raid X3 and moved up three places to eighth in the overall standings, while the Frenchman continued to extend his lead overall.
Historic win for SA’s De Villiers
South Africa scored a famous one-two at the weekend when Giniel de Villiers won the gruelling Dakar Rally. Compatriot Ralph Pitchford, who was the co-driver to American Mark Miller in the sister VW Touareg, finished second.
Motorite Racing preview of Limpopo 400
Defending special vehicle champions Evan Hutchison and Achim Bergmann (Motorite Racing BAT Spec 3) return to the scene of one of their four victories in their title-winning season last year when the Absa Off Road Car Championship returns to Polokwane in Limpopo for round six this weekend (September 12 and 13).
Hutchison and Bergmann show their pace on Sun City 400
Defending special vehicle champions Evan Hutchison and Achim Bergmann (Motorite Racing BAT Spec 3) led the Sun City 400 at the halfway point last weekend and looked to be heading for their first win of the season in round five of the Absa Off Road Car Championship.
Two in a row for Vos on Toyota 1000 Desert Race
GABORONE, Sunday – South African champion Duncan Vos made it two in a row when he and Louis Weichelt, in a Sasol Nissan Navara, won an enthralling Toyota Kalahari Botswana 1000 Desert Race which ended here yesterday.
Motorite Racing’s “Team of Champions” up for Toyota 100 Desert Race Challenge
Defending champions in the special vehicle category Evan Hutchison and Achim Bergmann (BAT Spec 3) will lead the Motorite Racing “Team of Champions” in their quest for success in this weekend’s Toyota 1000 Desert Race in Botswana.
Motorite Racing champions in good comeback on Nissan Sugarbelt 400
Reigning off road champions in the special vehicle category, Evan Hutchison and Achim Bergmann, made a great comeback in round three of the Absa Off Road Championship when they finished a strong second in their Motorite Racing BAT Spec 3 on the Nissan Sugarbelt 400 in the Pietermaritzburg area on Saturday.
Motorite Racing’s Team of Champions all revved up for KZN off road race
Motorite Racing’s Team of Champions travels to KwaZulu Natal this weekend for the third round of the Absa Off Road Championship, the Nissan Sugarbelt 400, in search of a result that will put the defending champions back on course for a repeat of last year’s success. Neither Special Vehicle champions Evan Hutchison and Achim Bergmann nor Motorite Racing team-mates Brandon Harcus and Richard Leeke have scored any points yet this season after both failed to finish either of the first two events. “It’s the worst start to a season we have ever had,” said team manager Hutchison. “The team has had to be strong and positive after our shocking start to the season, when my BAT Spec 3 burnt out after a crash on the Nissan Dealer 400 in March. Then we had gearbox problems with Brandon’s Spec 3, which we took over for the Eastern Cape 400 in April.