Dakar
BIGGEST FIELD IN 5 YEARS FOR SAFARI
The 127 motorsport competitors will depart from Wanneroo Showgrounds September 20, to take on seven days and 3,500kms of gruelling Western Australian outback terrain, in the ultimate endurance test of both man and machine. This year’s event has one of the most diverse fields of vehicles – with a record number of side-by-side entrants, the …
Monster Energy X-raid Team wins Baja Poland
Krzysztof Holowczyc wins his home event at the wheel of his MINI ALL4 Racing Martin Kaczmarski takes his MINI ALL4 Racing to third position In the 2014 edition of the Baja Poland, MINI ALL4 Racing driver and local hero Krzysztof Holowczyc – supported by his new navigator Xavier Panseri (FRA) – raced in a class …
FIA CROSS COUNTRY WORLD CUP – THE CHASE IS ON
The Monster Energy X-raid Team and the X-raid Team currently have a busy schedule. This weekend, just two weeks after the Hungarian Baja, X-raid will be back in action: the battle for World Cup points will be continued in the Baja Poland, with Russian pairing Vladimir Vasilyev / Konstantin Zhiltsov planning to use this …
GARLAND TO DEBUT NEW DAKAR-SPEC ISUZU AT FINKE
Australian Dakar Rally veteran Bruce Garland has confessed to ‘a moment of madness’, leaving today for the Northern Territory in preparation for next week’s Finke Desert Race, the toughest cross-country rally in the southern hemisphere.The 55-year-old Sydneysider, who has survived a fractured vertebra, a heart attack and five bypasses, and prostate cancer surgery in the …
1-2-3 for Mini at Dakar
After 13 stages, more than 13,000 kilometres and one of the most gruelling Dakars ever, Nani Roma and his French co-driver Michel Périn led home the Mini All 4 Racing hat-trick, with their yellow machine. Second place was secured by Peterhansel /Cottret in the black MINI ALL4 Racing, with Team X-raid driver Nasser Al-Attiyah and his Spanish …
Dakar Stage 9 Update
In the ninth stage dominated by the sand, from Calama to Iquique, the fight for the win proved to be a battle between Stéphane Peterhansel (FRA) in the black and Nasser Al-Attiyah (QAT) in the white MINI ALL4 Racing. At the end of the 302-kilometre special stage, Peterhansel and Jean-Paul Cottret (FRA) got the upper …
Dakar Update – Stage 7
The Mini’s are dominating at Dakar with Nani Roma currently holding a 32min lead over Stephane Peterhansel after Stage 7. The Overdrive Hilux of De Villiers is currently 3rd outright a further 17min back. However on the first day of competition after the rainy rest day, Carlos Sainz was the stage winner in the SMG …
Monster Energy X-raid Team Teaser for the 2014 Dakar
The Monster Energy X-raid Team Teaser for the 2014 Dakar has just gone online overnight. Watch Monster Energy’s X-raid team member Stéphane Peterhansel as he scales the dunes of Morocco, speeds into the city of Erfoud and off into the desert as he prepares for the 2014 Dakar Rally in South America. Stay tuned for …