The Dakar Rally continued to exact a heavy toll when French motorcyclist Pascal Terry was found dead on Wednesday after being reported missing following Sunday’s second stage in Argentina between Santa Rosa and Puerto Madrid, the longest of this year’s race.
How would you sum up your year of rallying?
Ben Atkinson: It has been a very successful year. Cody and I won the Asia Pacific Rally Championship with the MotorImage Rally Team for the third time along with the Asia Cup, winning four events in the process.
MotoGP
Motorcycling world champion Valentino Rossi was happy with his second-place finish at the Monza Rally.
MotoGP
The Yamaha rider has driven in a number of rallies in the past and will participate in next month’s Wales Rally GB, a race he crashed out of in 2002.
A HOT new Mitsubishi Lancer specially developed in Australia for tarmac rally drivers will make an exciting addition to the field of sports and exotic cars in Classic Adelaide next week.
MotoGP
MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi’s moonlighting as a rally driver in the coming month will benefit more than just the Italian, with the Fiat Yamaha rider using the attention directed his way to show his support for a charity appeal.
The American drivers of rally car racing face what might be called the soccer problem: How to make a sport that much of the world is nuts for catch on in the United States.
Rally SA
The Evans family has dominated the final leg of the 2008 Sprint Auto Parts Rally SA as both Simon and Eli Evans triumphed today in challenging, wet and extremely slippery conditions.
rally.com
Team TRD boss and Australian Rally Championship points leader Neal Bates has got the overnight advantage – and one up on heat one winner Simon Evans – as heat two of the Sprint Auto Parts Rally SA began in the Barossa Valley tonight.
Bam Media
It was a disappointing end for Darren Windus following a strong start to the event on the twin super stages at Angaston Oval.
Flickr
Naren Kumar hopes to bag a few points in the Finland leg of the Production World Rally Championship (PWRC) next week.
rally.com.au
“It’s really nice to be back where we are used to being at the end of a day like today. Some of the stages this morning were really slippery and a real challenge, but the roads were awesome, just fantastic! The car has come back with all four wheels pointing in the right direction and the body is straight so it’s been a good one” --Simon Evans
rallysa.com
“The stages look fantastic, I think this is probably one of the quickest rallies I’ve ever seen” --Simon Evans
The race had every ingredient to make it a thriller, except for the speed demons. For, instead of the Yamahas and BMWs, the Vespas and the Kinetics were doing the running.
CARS Media
“We’re still developing the car to make it a bit quicker and more reliable for the rough events but we are leading the series overall, so our objective this weekend is to come out of the event with some decent points towards the championship"-- Richard
World Rally
An event of mixed fortunes has seen the Stobart VK M-Sport Ford rally team close in on third place in the FIA World Rally Championship for Manufacturers after round eight in Turkey. Henning Solberg/Cato Menkerud were the stars of the show finishing the Rally of Turkey in a well deserved fifth position overall.
Ove Andersson was involved in an accident whilst competing in the Milligan Vintage Trial in South Africa.
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