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Nissan aims for seventh success in KZN round of off-road championship

Nissan Motorsport, six times winners of the popular KwaZulu Natal round of the Absa Off Road Championship that Nissan has sponsored for the past eight years, start this weekend’s (May 15 and 16) Nissan Sugarbelt 400 as firm favourites following their victories in the opening two rounds of the 2009 Absa Off Road Car Championship.

Posted by CAR magazine - 11 May 2009

Vos and Pitchford win second in a row for Nissan

Reigning champions Duncan Vos and Ralph Pitchford showed their class with a come-from-behind win in their Donaldson Nissan Navara in the Eastern Cape 400, round two of the Absa SA Off Road Championship, which finished in Jeffreys Bay on Saturday afternoon.
By CAR magazine - 20 April 2009

Vos wins title on a count out

Magaliesberg, Saturday – In what is thought to be the closest title fight in the history of off road racing in this country, Duncan Vos clinched his second successive South African Production Car championship here today on a count out from Sasol Nissan Navara team-mate Hannes Grobler.
By CAR magazine - 24 November 2008

Chips are down in production vehicle title chase

The chips are down in the Production Vehicle championship and there will be some white knuckles around at the Toyota Dealer 400, penultimate round of the Absa Off Road Championship, in Lydenburg on October 10 and 11.
By CAR magazine - 22 September 2008

Limpopo 400 – production car preview

After seasons of near total domination in the Production Car category of the Absa Off Road Championship, the Sasol Nissan Navara team is coming under increasing pressure and will again be under the whip on the Limpopo 400, round six of the series, on September 12 and 13.
By CAR magazine - 8 September 2008

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.

By CAR magazine - 17 June 2008

Dream start for Nissan factory team

Reigning champions Nissan made a dream start to the Absa Off Road Championship when they scored a one-two in the Production Vehicle category in the Nissan Dealer 400, the opening event of the season, in Darling.

By CAR magazine - 7 March 2008

Nissan Aiming for Record Eight Successive Wins in One Season in Carnival City 400

With Nissan having secured all three major titles on offer in this year’s Absa Off Road Championship for production vehicles (drivers’, co-drivers’ and manufacturers’), it would be natural to assume that there is little to look forward to in the final round at Carnival City this weekend (November 30/December 1).

By CAR magazine - 16 November 2007

ABSA off road Championship production vehicle championships head for tight finishes

With two races remaining on the Absa Off Road Championship calendar, Production Vehicle championships are delicately poised. The only certainty at this stage in terms of the overall and premier Super Production Class championships is that they will be won by Nissan works crews. Given the fact that Nissan have won six out of six races so far this season that is no surprise – but the ingredients are there for some unusual twists.

By CAR magazine - 17 September 2007

Vos and Pitchford give Nissan fifth successive win

Duncan Vos and Ralph Pitchford (Nissan Navara) made it three in a row when they won the Amathole 400, round five of the Absa SA Off Road Championship, which ended at the Fish River Sun in the Eastern Cape on Saturday afternoon.
By CAR magazine - 30 July 2007

Nissan aiming for fifth successive win

Nissan Motorsport is aiming to make it five wins from five starts when its three red Sasol-backed Super Production class Nissan Navara Pickups line up for this weekend’s (July 27 and 28) Amathole 500, round five of the Absa Off Road Championship, in the Eastern Cape.
By CAR magazine - 20 July 2007

Old Rivals Square Off At Ford Carnival City 400

Perennial rivals Toyota and Nissan will square up to each other again in the Production Vehicle category at the final round of the Absa Off Road Championship, the Ford Carnival City 400, on November 17 and 18.

By CAR magazine - 11 November 2006

Nissan Seeking Sixth Successive Manufacturers’ Title

Nissan Motorsport, with its sixth successive drivers’ and co-drivers’ championships already secured at the last event, the Toyota Dealer 400 in Mpumalanga in October, has its sights set on a sixth successive manufacturers’ championship when the Absa Off Road Championship wraps up for the year at the Carnival City 400 in Gauteng on Friday and Saturday (November 17 and 18).

By CAR magazine - 11 November 2006

Nissan Dominates Toyota Dealer 400 Prologue

Nissan entries dominated the Production Vehicle category prologue for the Toyota Dealer 400, the penultimate round of the Absa Off Road Championship, to be run in the Lydenburg area tomorrow.

By CAR magazine - 27 October 2006

High Stakes Foir Production Vehicle Challengers

Two sets of highly experienced former South African champions will go head to head on the Toyota Dealer 400 on October 27 and 28, the penultimate round of the Absa Off Road Championship, in a clash that could decide the destiny of the Production Vehicle overall and Super Production Class championships.

By CAR magazine - 22 October 2006

Production Vehicle Championship Interestingly Poised

A hugely interesting situation at the top of the leader board in the Production Vehicle category, highlighted by anomalies in the scoring system, has developed in this year’s Absa Off Road Championship.

By CAR magazine - 8 October 2006

Nissan’s Grobler and Jordaan Retain Championship Lead

Nissan Motorsport’s Hannes Grobler and Francois Jordaan remained on track to take their second Absa Off Road Championship together when they finished a fighting second overall among the production vehicles in the Sun City 400, sixth round of the Absa Off Road Championship, in North West Province this afternoon.

By CAR magazine - 1 October 2006

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