Mini will contest next year’s Dakar with an All4 Racing developed and run by the Monster Energy X-Raid team. The car, which has been built in just 90 days, will be driven by Dakar expert Guerlain Chicherit. The project was first discussed in the summer of 2009, when X-Raid team director Sven Quandt began looking at the feasibility of the project.
Quandt then held initial discussions with automotive engineering and manufacturing company Magna Steyr and BMW to see whether the new model was a realistic replacement for the BMW X3 CC, which has earned the team three successive FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rally titles since 2008Â …Â Details
The 32nd edition of the Dakar Rally, which was staged previously in Africa and will be run for the third time in South America, kicks off on New Year’s Day and ends on January 16.
South Africa will again be well represented in the world’s longest and toughest offroad race, headed by 2009 Dakar winner Giniel de Villiers who is again behind the wheel of a factory Volkswagen Touareg turbodiesel shared with German navigator Dirk von Zitzewitz.  … Details
IRWINDALE, CA (Tanner Foust Racing; December 5, 2010) – Rockstar Energy Drink driver Tanner Foust took the win in his Rockstar-Etnies Ford Fiesta this weekend at the first Gymkhana Grid event, upsetting favorite Ken Block at his own inaugural event.Â
“It was a fun contest, ripping around in a high-powered racecar and putting down a whole lot of rubber,” said Foust. “Winning was an added bonus; I knew the Rockstar Energy camp had a shot but I’m always so impressed with Ken’s videos that I didn’t … Details