Dakar Rally 2011: H&H’s SS5 Stage Report and Overall Results
Into the dunes the Dakar Rally enters, where for many the true spirit of this adventure truly begins, reports EVAN ROTHMAN. For the second day in his home country, Francisco…
Dakar Rally 2011: SS4 Overall Results and Stage Report by HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS
Into Chile went the Dakar competitors, flat-out and with their rooster dust-trails taller than the trucks that followed them. The bike race hotted up, Carlos Sainz (Volkswagen Race Touareg 3)…
Dakar Rally 2011: HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS’ SS3 overall results and stage report
This the longest stage of the Dakar thus far proved to be a challenge for all competitors. The leaderboard of the Cars and Bikes remains the same, but Vladimir Chagin…
Dakar Rally: HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS’ SS2 Overall Results and Stage Report
The second stage of the 2011 Dakar Rally saw the two favourites in the Bike and Cars categories continue to set the leading pace, both winning their second consecutive stage.…
Dakar Rally: Stage One’s Overall Results and Report
SS1: Victoria to Cordoba Road Section: 566km Special Stage: 192km for bikes, 222km for cars and trucks Bikes: The Portuguese rider Ruben Faria claimed the honour of winning the first…
Sainz gives Volkswagen the perfect start to Dakar 2011
With all four of their Race Touareg 3s in the top five, Volkswagen got their 2011 Dakar Rally campaign off to the perfect start in Argentina on Sunday. Defending champion…
Buenos Aires celebrates Volkswagen
The Dakar Rally saw an emotional beginning: More than one million enthusiastic spectators turned out to send the total of 430 participants of the desert classic off to the over…
A brief history of the Dakar Rally – www.dakar.com
The adventure began back in 1977, when Thierry Sabine got lost on his motorbike in the Libyan desert during the Abidjan-Nice Rally. Saved from the sands in extremis, he returned…
Ready to go for the marathon: Volkswagen confronts the Dakar Rally
Christmas, New Year’s Eve and New Year. No sooner are they over and the Dakar Rally starts. Volkswagen confronts the legendary marathon from 1 to 15 January 2011 with four…
2011 Dakar Rally: This will be my highlight – Giniel de Villiers
A challenging combination of familiar and new stages awaits the Volkswagen factory drivers during the 2011 Dakar Rally. Giniel de Villiers (ZA), first “Diesel” winner of the rally in a…