Championship leaders confident ahead of Toyota 1000 Desert Race
A great start to the new season sees the privateer Barden Tyre Services Racing team of Thomas Rundle and Juan Mohr leading the Absa Off Road Car Championship as the competition reaches its halfway point with the Toyota 1000 Desert Race in Botswana this weekend.
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Bogs, Trees and Vodka. Russia’s Ladoga Trophy-Raid
It’s in the eyes… that’s how you can tell who has done the Ladoga Trophy before and who is a swamp virgin. Wondering around the start line in the shadow of the magnificent St Isaac’s cathedral in the centre of St Petersburg those looking at all the cars with wide-eyed innocence are obviously first-timers… and others with a calm yet slightly haunted look, know exactly what is about to come, what it will take to get their vehicles through the 1200km of bogs, rivers, rocks and forest that lie ahead over the next 9 days.
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RFS team seeks repeat of Toyota Desert Race success
The Pretoria-based Retirement Fund Solutions off road racing team of Hannes Grobler/Hennie ter Stege and Christiaan du Plooy/Henk Janse van Vuuren travels the long road to Gaborone in Botswana this week to take on the three-day marathon challenge that is the annual Toyota 1000 Desert Race, round four of the Absa South African Off Road Car Championship.
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FASCINATING SPECIAL VEHICLE CATEGORY RACE IN BOTSWANA
Family feuds and half a dozen or more potential winners add up to a fascinating Special Vehicle category outing on the Toyota 1000 Desert Race, round four of the Absa Off Road Championship, in Botswana from June 24 to 26.
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TOYOTA DESERT RACE: PRESSURE COOKER ATMOSPHERE IN PRODUCTION VEHICLE CATEGORY
Pressure will be the name of the game in the Production Vehicle category at this year’s Toyota 1000 Desert Race, round four of the Absa Off Road Championship, in Botswana from June 23 to 26.
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NEW SPONSOR AND TERRAIN FOR BELL JUNIOR NATIONAL
There is a new sponsor – BELL – for the upcoming BELL Junior National, the fourth round of the 2011 series that will take place on 25 June in an area (Mkonge Farm) not previously used for a round of the Junior National Off-road Championship.
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TOYOTA 1000 DESERT RACE CELEBRATES 30TH ANNIVERSARY
Toyota’s association with the Toyota 1000 Desert Race in Botswana from June 24 to 26 this year celebrates its 30th anniversary – and never has the pressure on the Team Castrol Toyota factory team been more intense.
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How is this for an off-road monster?
Problem: You are going to enter top-class off-roading competitions and you want your team to stand out from all the others... What do you do?
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NISSAN TEAMS STILL LEAD ABSA OFF ROAD CHAMPIONSHIP
After three rounds of the series two privateer Nissan teams still lead the Production Vehicle category in the Absa Off Road Championship.
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The Croatia Trophy: Sweat, blood and guts
A man walks alone through the darkness, every step an unseen struggle over the slippery ground until he drops to his knees at the foot of a tree. He can just about make out the marks on it that tell him others have been here before and have performed the same ritual.
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THE "Bells" are ringing for Off Road bike and quad racing.
After an absence of five years Bell Equipment are returning as sponsors of national Off Road bike and quad racing.
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SUCCESSFUL WEEKEND FOR GIBSON/CAMPBELL
The Atlas Copco 400 in the Biggarsberg region over the weekend proved to be a successful outing for KwaZulu-Natal crew Clint Gibson and Gary Campbell.
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Rundle and Mohr retain their lead in the Absa Off Road Championship
A gutsy performance in Saturday’s Atlas Copco Battlefields 400 in KwaZulu-Natal saw Thomas Rundle and Juan Mohr (Barden Tyre Services Racing Nissan Navara) finish a fighting fifth among the Super Production vehicles and retain their overall lead in the championship after three rounds.
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A difficult weekend at the office for the Atlas Copco racing team
It is a curious fact that seldom does a team that wears the colours of the event sponsor succeed in winning the event.
So it was again in the Atlas Copco 400, third round of the Absa Off Road Car Championship, which was run in the Dundee area of KwaZulu-Natal for the first time this past weekend.
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ATLAS COPCO 400 TRIUMPH FOR SULLWALD TEAM
The father and son team of Hermann and Wichard Sullwald pounded the opposition into submission in battlefield territory to win the Atlas Copco 400, round three of the Absa Off Road Championship, which ended Saturday.
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ATLAS COPCO 400 DOUBLE FOR TEAM CASTROL TOYOTA
In historic battlefield country in the Biggarsberg the Castrol Toyota Hilux team won the skirmishes and the war on the Atlas Copco 400, round three of the Absa Off Road Championship, which ended yesterday.
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LEVEL PLAYING FIELD SETS UP ENTICING PRODUCTION VEHICLE DUELS
A level playing field sets up an enticing situation in the Production Vehicle category at the Atlas Copco 400, round three of the Absa Off Road Championship, in the Dundee area.
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Pietermaritzburg teenager continues to dominate motocross
Pietermaritzburg teenager Dirco van der Westhuizen continues to dominate the MX85cc category of the Full Throttle national motocross championship. There just seems to be no stopping the 12-year-old Gert Maritz Primary School pupil, who is unbeaten so far this year.
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EASTERN CAPE’S LIQUORLAND ROVER ENDURO TO BE A TOUGH TEST
All eyes might be on the Kiwi, Chris Birch (Comsol Alfie Cox Racing KTM) at the Liquorland Rover Enduro, the third round of the Liquorland SA National Enduro Motorcycle Championship that will take place on 14 May in the Humansdorp area in the Eastern Cape, but the attention will also be on some of SA’s top enduro riders who will give the double race winner this season a run for his money.
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YOUNG OFF-ROAD COMPETITORS SHOW DETERMINATION AT CREODATA JUNIOR NATIONAL
The young motorcycle and quad riders who competed in the Creodata Junior National, the third round of the 2011 Junior National Off-road Championship this weekend (7 May) in Gauteng, showed sheer determination and strength of character to complete the race despite set-backs and gruelling weather conditions.
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