Offroad
format of racing where various classes of specially modified vehicles (including cars, trucks, motorcycles, and buggies) compete in races through off-road environments.
Atlas Copco Timbertrack 400 presents new challenge for Toyota Motorsport
By Toyota_Blogger on 2012-05-14 09:15
Buoyed by its emphatic 1-2 success in the previous round in Mpumalanga in April, Toyota Motorsport’s team of Duncan Vos/Rob Howie and Anthony Taylor/Chris Birkin and their Castrol Toyota Hilux double cabs will start round three of the Absa Off Road Car Championship in KwaZulu-Natal this weekend (May 18 and 19) as the favourites.
“We’re in it to win it,” admitted Castrol Toyota team principal Glyn Hall. “But we know we’re up against increasingly strong competition with a number of potential race winners, so we won’t be taking anything for granted.
Duncan Vos and Rob Howie won the Production Vehicle category on the Toyota Dealer 400, round two of the Absa Off Road Championship.
• Toyota also 4th, 5th and 6th overall, first in classes SP, D and E and winner of manufacturers’ award
Seldom does a sponsor win its own event, but Toyota Motorsport broke a long-standing hoodoo dating back to the Toyota Desert Race in Botswana in 1999, when four-time national champion Duncan Vos and co-driver Rob Howie (Castrol Team Toyota Hilux) won the Toyota Dealer 400 in Mpumalanga on Saturday. It was Vos’s 20th national championship off road victory.
The results are provisional as they are subject to an appeal to Motorsport South Africa.
Giniel and Team
We asked the fans what question they would like to ask Giniel de Villiers, Dakar 2012 podium finisher. Here are some of the few he answered when we caught up with him in Johannesburg.
Toyota Blog: If you had a choice of past rally drivers who have given you inspiration, who would it be?
Castrol Toyota’s Taylor and Birkin lead Toyota Desert Race after day two
By Toyota_Blogger on 2011-06-27 13:22
Kumakwane, Botswana, Saturday, June 25 – It was a case of déjà vu for Castrol Team Toyota’s Anthony Taylor as he completed the second day of the Toyota 1000 Desert Race in first place overall in his factory SP class Toyota Hilux Double Cab, just as he did last year.
Toyota takes all the spoils of war in Atlas Copco Battlefields 400
By Toyota_Blogger on 2011-05-23 13:28
Toyota made an emphatic clean sweep of all the spoils of war in last weekend’s Atlas Copco 400 national championship off road race, fought out near the historic battle sites of Isandlwana, Rorke’s Drift and Blood River in KwaZulu-Natal.
Castrol Team Toyota
A new event and a virgin route await Castrol Team Toyota’s Special Production class Toyota Hilux bakkies in round three of the Absa South African Off Road Car Championship in KwaZulu-Natal this weekend.
The Atlas Copco 400 has moved from its previous venue in the canefields of Eston near Pietermaritzburg to the hills around Dundee, where the sounds of high-powered V6- and V8-engined racing vehicles fighting for supremacy will evoke memories of long-gone battles at historic sites like Isandlwana, Rorke’s Drift and Blood River.
They say lightning never strikes twice in the same place - which is good news for Class A crews in the Special Vehicle category at the Toyota Dealer 400, round two of the Absa Off Road Championship, in Mpumalanga on April 8 and 9.
With the Production Vehicle category a potpourri of possibility it would take a brave person to predict a winner at the Toyota Dealer 400, round two of the Absa Off Road Championship, in Mpumalanga on April 8 and 9.
There are some new faces and some returning old friends in the premier SP Class with potential winners coming out of the woodwork. There are 20 SP Class vehicles entered with their number bolstered by teenager Lance Woolridge and Ward Huxtable, in a second factory Ford Racing Ranger, and old stalwarts Hugo and Jaap de Bruyn who return to action after missing last season.
Karoo
4x4s were made to tame rugged and sparse landscapes such as this, but more than the challenging terrain and abundant natural wonder, South Africa’s largest province offers the quiet serenity of open space.
Experience the sheer vastness of the Northern Cape in your Toyota Hilux by exploring its five regions; Diamond Fields, Namakwa, Karoo, Green Kalahari and Kalahari.
The following is just a small sampling of 4x4 trails in the Northern Cape.
Race director Adri Roets has rung the changes for the Toyota Dealer 400, round two of the Absa Off Road Championship, in Mpumalanga on April 8 and 9.
The event will again be based in Lydenburg with race headquarters, the start/finish and the designated service park at the Lydenburg Rugby Club. That is about where the similarity to previous Toyota Dealer 400 races ends.
