AORC SET FOR RECORD BREAKING FINKE DESERT RACE
The 2015 Tatts Finke Desert Race is set to be the biggest event in Australian Off Road Championship history as a record number of competitors, volunteers and fans converge on Alice Springs, Northern Territory, for Round 2 of the season this weekend (June 5-8). A record 140 entries for the car section – along with …
TOYO FIELDS FINKE DREAM TEAM
An elite squad of Team Toyo racers is looking for a podium in Australia’s most dangerous race. Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of Toyo Tires in Australia, the tyre manufacturer has selected a team of elite drivers to lead the largest field of competitors ever seen at the 40th annual Finke Desert Race. Team Toyo is …
2015 Cliffhanger Teaser
The 2015 Cliffhanger 4WD Event has been run and won finishing up the final stages last Friday with a very close difference in points. Set again in the central outback of NSW, a very well prepared field of 20 teams tackled 17 stages with less breakages than usual and 18 competitors still going strong in …
Explore Australia Expo is a One Stop Shop for Big Boys Toys
Whether it is four-wheel drives, monster trucks, touring bikes, stunt vehicles ATV’s, UTV’s, PWC‘s or electric bikes the Explore Australia Expo at Melbourne Showgrounds on May 29 -31 has it all. A mecca for adventurers, explorers and motoring enthusiasts alike, the event will provide visitors with a rare opportunity to not only view an incredible …
OFFICIAL 2016 DAKAR ROUTE
Today, the stages of the 2016 edition of Dakar have been unveiled which will see the event kicking off in Lima, Peru and travelling through Bolivia to the Rosario finish line in Argentina. The schedule is: 3/01 – Stage 1: Lima – Pisco 4/01 – Stage 2: Pisco – Nazca 5/01 – Stage 3: Nazca …
VIDEO: 2015 Suzuki Club (Vic) Adventure Tour
The Suzuki Club of Victoria is renowned for its annual Adventure Tour, where they fire up the Zook’s and head out for a big weekend of wheel lifting, chassis twisting action, ticking the boxes on some of the states big name tracks. Check out Jonno Levin’s take on the trip and look out for a story in …
Locked Up Cleans Up at SSS Round 1
Mickey Thompson SSS Winch Challenge Series – Round 1 Event Report and Images by Shantyl O’Donnell – SS Photography Round 1 of the Mickey Thompson SSS Winch Challenge Series has been run and won out at Landcruiser Mountain Park over the weekend just gone with the largest field in some time, 22 teams. Racing got …
Aust V USA in Toyo Tires Stadium Super Trucks Debut
Clipsal 500 Adelaide organisers have announced the full driver line-up for the Australian debut of the world’s newest and most exciting form of racing, the Toyo Tires Robby Gordon Stadium Super Trucks Series. Stadium Super Trucks founder and two-time series champion Robby Gordon will be the star attraction in the pits at Victoria Park for …
Haaker Crowned KLiM King of the Motos
February 1, 2015 (Johnson Valley, CA) – With 2014 King of the Motos’ winner Cody Webb racing in Europe, all eyes were on Colton Haaker, age 25, of Hollister, California to lead a stacked field during Sunday’s King of the Motos competition. And Haaker–an X Games medalist who frequently podiums on the AMA Endurocross series–delivered. …
TOYO TIRES ANNOUNCES STADIUM SUPER TRUCKS SPONSORSHIP
Toyo Tires has acquired the naming rights sponsorship of the Australian debut of Stadium Super Trucks at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide. The Clipsal 500 round of the V8 Supercars series starting on February 26 will see a full competition round of the Toyo Tires Stadium Super Trucks Presented by Traxxas run over three days …
Aussie Isuzu Team Out Of Dakar
Despite being ready and waiting at the Stage 4 start line, the Dakar Race Director has not allowed Isuzu Motorsports to restart Dakar. Isuzu Motorsports did not make the cut off time to start Stage 3 and as such, were forbidden from starting Stage 4. Just 80 kilometres from reaching the end of Dakar’s longest stage, …
RENTSCH ON SEVENTH HEAVEN
Rentsch wins back to back AORC titles at TJM Lockyer 300 Shannon and Ian Rentsch have successfully defended their Australian Off Road Championship crown after winning their seventh career Aus #1 title behind the wheel of the Hogs Breath Cafe / BFGoodrich Tires Jimco at the TJM Lockyer 300 in Queensland last weekend. Equaling the record of legendary Pro Buggy steerer …