Corner speed analyzed: Ford vs Toyota vs Volkswagen
The South African Rally Championship last season was upset by the arrival of an all-new rally machine, rocking the established Toyota and Volkswagen teams. World Rally Championship drivers and a…
Hot racing action set for Mpumalanga
The Toyota Dealer 400 off-road race, Round Two of the ABSA South African Off-Road Racing Championship, takes place this weekend in Mpumalanga. After a hotly contested Round One in the…
MINI scores first win
The name Andrea Navarra is surely spoken in reverent tones at MINI and Prodrive after this weekend. The Italian rally ace, driving his brand-new MINI John Cooper Works rally machine,…
Kimi moves to Nascar
With this headline breaking on 01 April, I wasn’t sure if this news was just another April Fools’ gag or not. Yet, pictures, press releases and videos have emerged since…
Handbrakes & Hairpins – Issue 177
Welcome to issue 177 of HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS, your favourite free source of rally entertainment! To download this week’s issue, please click here: http://handbrakeshairpins.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/hh-177.pdf As always, please enjoy this week’s…
Electric rally cars to tackle e-miglia
125 years of the automobile, and where has it gotten us? Almost one billion vehicles worldwide, an enormous economic factor, and high individual mobility. The vehicles however require fossil fuels…
Mikko Hirovnen tells it like it is
Mikko Hirvonen was interviewed by www.wrc.com after the WRC Rally de Portugal. In THIS interview, he made some interesting remarks. This is HANDBRAKES & HAIRPINS’ favourite: Question from WRC.COM: What’s…
South African Rally Championship’s Total Tour Natal Rally TV times
Premier Rally Broadcast: • 06 April – SS2: 18h30 – 19:30 • 07 April – SS5: 00h30 – 01:30 • 07 April – SS2: 10h00 – 11h00 • 08 April…
Guest driver Delecour triumphs on Tuthill Porsche Challenge opener
Francois Delecour marked his guest appearance in the Tuthill Porsche Challenge with victory as the one-make series for identical historic-specification Porsche 911s got underway on the Bulldog Historic Rally in…
Miguel Baldoni shines in Volkswagen Gol Trend in Argentina
In the recent round of the Argentine Rally Championship, WRC Academy sensation Miguel Baldoni competed in a Volkswagen Gol Trend. This machine runs S2000 specification, and as Handbrakes & Hairpins…