Dakar : The World`s Most Grueling Race
On New Year`s Eve, while most of NASCAR`s elite prepare to celebrate the arrival of 2006 in comfort, and for the two weeks following rest, take a cruise, hunt or play golf,

Due to continuing rehabilitation
Volkswagen Motorsport must do without its Technical Director Eduard Weidl at the 2006 Dakar Rally.

Due to continuing rehabilitation, the 40-year old Weidl, responsible for

Classic navigation with road-book and compass
Perfect navigation as the key to success at the 2006 Dakar Rally: The desert classic kicks-off on 31 December with new sporting regulations, which demand, in addition

Ready to go for the Dakar Rally 2006
Just eleven more days to go to the start of the ‘Kwikpower Mercedes-Benz` team`s debut appearance in the most prestigious desert rally of the planet – and the excitement is increasing.

In 2006 Lisbon Dakar
Miguel Barbosa, as twice Portuguese Off-Road Champion, will be one of the drivers receiving the most attention amongst the Portuguese entrants. At just 27 years old he has already won an honourable

Job sharing in the cockpit replaces loner on two-wheels
What do the Volkswagen works drivers Jutta Kleinschmidt, Mark Miller and co-driver Dirk von Zitzewitz have in common? The three desert professionals, who compete

At the start of Dakar 2006 Rally Raid
In the beginning, Madalena Antas and Jean Michel Polato, were to use a Nissan Patrol GR in the 2006 edition of Lisbon-Dakar marathon, but in the last minute, the plans changed,

Volkswagen all geared up for the Dakar Rallye
Rally feeling in Wolfsburg: after a public event in the `auto city`, the Volkswagen works team, with 27 vehicles and 78 people, set course for the Portuguese capital

For the Repsol KTM team
The Repsol KTM team set the full stop to its preparation with the last joint test before the start of the 2006 Lisbon Dakar. Marc Coma, Giovanni Sala and Jordi Viladoms, under the direction

At the end of the year
Lisboa is going to be the “Motor Sports Capital” from the 26th to the 31st of December 2005, with the Glamour of the famous who will attend the scrutineering mixing in with the adrenaline

Interview with Repsol Mitsubishi driver
Luc `Lucho` Alphand was born in Briançon, France, in August 1965 and currently lives at Serre-Chevalier. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s he became one of the most famous World

Interview with Mitsubishi Repsol driver
Hiroshi Masuoka was born in Japan in March 1960 and now lives in Irurna, Saitama, in Japan with his wife Chiaki and son Shoichiro. He first began off-road racing in 1979 and

Dakar : Race trucks for Volkswagen Motorsport
They drive in competition at the Dakar Rally, they fight for every second. Yet for the two race trucks of the Volkswagen works team, the “Dakar” from 31 December 2005

Looking forward to another Dakar
Despite his numerous wins in the famous Dakar race, Stéphane Peterhansel is looking forward to the 2006 edition of the event.
What is your favourite memory of the Dakar?
“It

Interview with Repsol KTM rider
On the personal side, Jordi Duran would not change his hometown in Lleida for anything in the world, a place he always gets back joyfully after travelling around the world. It is

Interview with Repsol KTM rider
Giovanni Sala, defines himself as an honest and nice man, who dedicates his spare time to enjoying rock and Latin-American music, Italian gastronomy and extreme sports; obviously

East African Safari Rally
After 1,602.88 kilometres of competition over some of the most gruelling and challenging roads in Kenya and Tanzania, the all-Kenyan crew of Rob Collinge and Anton Levitan claimed their

The biggest rally in the World
Monday, in Paris and Lisbon, the organisation of Euromilhões Lisbon – Dakar 2006 revealed the route of the 28th Edition of the race which will be held between the 31st of December

Interview with Mitsubishi Repsol driver Nani Roma
And much time with them. We finally decided that it`s better if they stay home with the rest of the family. I guess it will be strange for them, but they are already

Seven women involved in the 2006 Dakar challenge
When the Volkswagen works team starts the 28th Dakar Rally on 31 December in Lisbon, the works driver Jutta Kleinschmidt and her Italian co-driver Fabrizia Pons take