Monster Energy Honda Team’s Portuguese rider Paulo Gonçalves has clinched the overall victory in the Desafío Ruta 40, the fourth round of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship. Ricky Brabec finished fifth.
The final stage of the Desafío Ruta 40, from Villa Union to San Juan, which featured two hundred kilometres of special timed stage, concluded to the joy of Paulo Gonçalves and the entire Monster Energy Honda Team. The squad romped to a final triumph in the race after five days of merciless Argentine desert. The Portuguese rider...
sexta-feira, 31 de agosto de 2018
João Ramos e Victor Jesus, após o período de descanso, vão regressar à competição, dias 7 e 8 de Setembro na BAJA DE IDANHA-A-NOVA, aos comandos da Toyota Hilux da equipa Toyota Caetano Motorsport.
Nas palavras de João Ramos “Após o intervalo de férias, reentramos no Campeonato de Portugal de Todo o Terreno, onde faltam duas Bajas, a Baja TT de Idanha-a-Nova e a Baja de Portalegre. Com o balanço das pontuações realizado e dos possíveis cenários das duas ultimas Bajas, verificamos que pelo fato de deitar o pior resultado fora, estamos numa...
A Taça YAMAHA YXZ 1000R vai regressar às competições do Campeonato Nacional de Todo-o-Terreno, desta feita, para disputar a sua quinta jornada que decorrerá na Baja TT Idanha-a-Nova a qual se cumpre nos dias 7 e 8 de Setembro.
As magnificas paisagens beirãs de Penamacor e Idanha-a-Nova vão ser o cenário de mais uma disputada corrida inserida nesta competição monomarca promovida pela YAMAHA Motor Portugal. Actualmente liderada por Mário...
A Baja TT Idanha-a-Nova, que se disputa nos próximos dias 7 e 8 de setembro, vai receber a quinta jornada do Troféu Polaris RZR 2018, uma etapa que se vai realizar nas magnificas pistas dos concelhos de Penamacor e Idanha-a-Nova.
A competição destinada ao modelo RZR do construtor americano Polaris vai contar mais uma vez com uma dezena de equipas repartidas por duas classes uma destinada a máquinas com motor Turbo e outra atmosférico.
Quando...
Riders Kevin Benavides and Mathias Bellino, participants in the 2018 Desafío Ruta 40 with the Monster Energy Honda Team, were both forced to retire prematurely from the race after separate accidents.
World championship leader Argentinean rider Kevin Benavides, was involved in an accident at kilometre 60 in the first stage of the Desafio Ruta 40, suffering a hard blow to the head. The race medical team who treated him at the nearest checkpoint advised further checks at the hospital in Belén where the rider was transported to undergo various...
The fourth stage of the Desafío Ruta 40 brought with it good results for the Monster Energy Honda Team. Despite opening the track, Paulo Gonçalves minimized the handicap and managed to finish the day on the podium. Brabec was fourth on the penultimate stage.
In spite of the hindrance of having to open the field, as the Desafío Ruta 40 reached its fourth day, Paulo Gonçalves was able to maintain a swift pace high in the mountains linking Tinogasta and Villa Unión. In doing so the rider was able to keep the aspirations of his pursuing rivals firmly...
quinta-feira, 30 de agosto de 2018
Another complicated day in Fiambalá where the Monster Energy Honda Team colours shone in the immensity of the Argentine desert. Stage three of the Desafío Ruta 40 saw victory for Paulo Gonçalves and third place for Ricky Brabec.
Today’s Desafío Ruta 40 was originally scheduled to cover a total of 210.89 kilometres of special stage in the Fiambalá desert, with characteristics similar to those of the gruelling previous stage with off-piste and navigation through the dunes the order of the day. However, for security reasons, race authorities...
terça-feira, 28 de agosto de 2018
The Desafío Ruta 40 today put the competitors through one of the hardest ever stages in its history as it crossed the Fiambalá Desert. Riders had to tackle a highly demanding 320-kilometre special stage filled with tricky navigation and challenging off-piste racing. Paulo Gonçalves, who opened the track today, lies fourth overall.
The severity of this Ruta 40 second stage proved to be not only a physical punishment, but a mental one too. The navigation in the Fiambalá desert became increasingly more demanding, with many sections where competitors...
segunda-feira, 27 de agosto de 2018
A bittersweet first stage of the Desafío Ruta 40 for Monster Energy Honda Team. Kevin Benavides, one of the hot favourites for an overall win, was forced to retire after taking a heavy fall. Nevertheless, the winning laurels went to team-mate Paulo Gonçalves, riding the longest stage of Ruta 40.
With the scrutineering, the prologue and the ceremonial start out of the way, the Desafío Ruta 40 headed out of Tucumán and moved into the province of Catamarca before finishing up in Belén in a tough, complicated and gruelling stage. The roadbook...
domingo, 26 de agosto de 2018
Monster Energy Honda Team are all fired up and ready to roll in the 2018 Desafío Ruta 40, which kicks off today, Sunday, with the dispute of a curtain-raising prologue.
After last week’s hugely successful Atacama Rally campaign, where Kevin Benavides clinched a decisive victory, this week the action hops the border into the neighbouring Argentina, home soil for Kevin Benavides, current bi-champion of the Desafío Ruta 40. The Monster Energy Honda Team rider is the clear favourite for the triumph as the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship...
Saudi Arabian driver Essa Al-Dossari is one of the first international drivers to enter the exciting new Jordan Baja, an FIA candidate event for the forthcoming FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies.
The three-day off-road event for cars, motorcycles and quads will take place in the stunning Wadi Rum area on September 27-29. Al-Dossari has been out of international rallying action since crashing his ED Racing Nissan Navara on the second stage...
sexta-feira, 24 de agosto de 2018
- Campeões podem ficar decididos na Baja TT de Idanha
- Prólogo muda de figurino e localização
- Partida de Setor Seletivo na Senhora do Loreto promete emoção redobrada
- Parque de Assistência muda-se para a Zona Industrial de Idanha-a-Nova
Terminada que está a habitual pausa de verão no Nacional de Todo-o-Terreno, pilotos e máquinas já se preparam para a próxima prova da temporada, a Baja TT Idanha-a-Nova.
Com a organização...
segunda-feira, 20 de agosto de 2018
The Atacama Rally, on Chilean soil, turned out to be hugely successful for Monster Energy Honda Team’s Argentinean rider Kevin Benavides, who clinched overall victory and the leadership of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship.
The final day, on a 155-kilometre looping route, starting and finishing in Copiapó, was battled out over the same course that had been used in Stage One. Competitors had to have their wits about them and were faced with some challenging navigation in the dunes as well as some off-piste and dry river beds.
Kevin...
sábado, 18 de agosto de 2018
In the penultimate stage of the Atacama Rally, Argentinean Monster Energy Honda Team rider Kevin Benavides retook the leadership in the overall standings as the rally arrives at the crunch final stage.
The 371.39-kilometre fourth stage of the Atacama Rally ran a looping route which both started and finished in Copiapó, taking in Chañaral and Caldera en route. The special saw the riders face 253.54 kilometres against the clock.
José Ignacio Cornejo posted his best partial time in the second-to-last stage, with a fourth place, just a minute...
quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de 2018
After the dispute of the third stage of the Atacama Rally, featuring a 259.27-kilometre timed special, Monster Energy Honda Team rider Kevin Benavides, remains firmly in the podium zone with good prospects of an overall win.
The Atacama Rally has reached its halfway point with the dispute of the third stage. Today, despite an hour and a half delay due to the morning fog, participants finally got away and had to tackle a total of 335.17 kilometres on the looping Copiapó route, which took riders to Ojos del Salado during the 259.27-kilometre special....
quarta-feira, 15 de agosto de 2018
The longest stage in the Atacama Rally, held today in Copiapó, turned out to be a great success for Kevin Benavides behind the bars of the Honda CRF450 RALLY. The Argentinean Monster Energy Honda Team rider set off this morning from first place and proved to be not only unreachable, but also managed to chalk up the day’s fastest time.
This second stage, the longest of the Atacama Rally, with a total of 440.88 kilometres – including 375.91 against the clock – had the start of the special stage delayed due to the usual appearance of the ‘camanchaca’,...
Monster Energy Honda Team got to grips today with the first full stage of the Atacama Rally, grabbing a decisive win for Kevin Benavides in the dunes of Copiapó. Joan Barreda suffered a heavy fall that saw him obliged to drop out of the race.
Yesterday’s short afternoon prologue in Tierra Amarilla, a town just fifteen kilometres from Copiapo, brought some surprises, as the top riders were at their smartest strategically, to avoid starting out from the front when the first stage of the competition got underway. Thus, Paulo Gonçalves, José...
segunda-feira, 13 de agosto de 2018
The Atacama Rally, third round of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship, kicks off this Monday with the curtain-raiser – a short prologue stage that will determine the competitors’ starting order for the first full stage. A buoyant Monster Energy Honda Team is all set and poised to take up the action.
After making the first contact with Chilean terrain and overcoming the mandatory administrative and technical checks, Monster Energy Honda Team is hot to trot for the Atacama Rally which gets underway tomorrow, Monday, at 17:00 hrs...
domingo, 12 de agosto de 2018
Nani Roma wins in Hungary
Przygonski extends his FIA World Cup lead by finishing second
The Hungarian Baja, event number eight on the FIA Cross Country Rally World Cup calendar, ended with a huge success for X-raid. Joan ‚Nani‘ Roma and Alex Haro (both ESP) won the Baja with their MINI John Cooper Works Rally, followed by their team-mates Jakub ‚Kuba‘ Przygonki (POL) and Tom Colsoul (BEL) – who also raced a MINI JCW Rally – in second...
Piloto da KTM conquistou 2ª posição na Hungarian Baja
Mário Patrão sagrou-se este fim-de-semana vice-campeão do mundo de Bajas na modalidade de Todo-o-Terreno depois de completar a sua participação na Hungarian Baja na segunda posição, imediatamente atrás de Stefan Svitko piloto eslovaco que em 2016 terminou o Dakar na 2ª posição.
Foram semanas intensas de preparação para esta prova e o piloto apoiado pelo CRÉDITO AGRÍCOLA esteve...
sábado, 11 de agosto de 2018
Russian driver Vladimir Vasilyev and Spaniard Xavier ‘Xevi’ Pons finished third and fourth in the overall standings at the Veszprém-based HunGarian Baja, round round eight of the 2018 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, on Saturday.
The result enabled 48-year-old Vasilyev to maintain his challenge for a second FIA World Cup title, although the Toyota Hilux driver did cede a further five points to series leader Jakub Przygonski, the...
sexta-feira, 10 de agosto de 2018
Mário Patrão inicia hoje a sua participação na Hungarian Baja terceira e derradeira jornada pontuável para a Taça do Mundo de Bajas, competição na qual o consagrado piloto português aspira lutar por uma das primeiras posições.
As últimas semanas têm sido extremamente metódicas no que diz respeito à preparação para esta prova, pelo que a expectativa está a um nível muito alto. O piloto apoiado pelo CRÉDITO AGRÍCOLA, na sua estreia, alcançou...
quarta-feira, 8 de agosto de 2018
The Atacama Rally sees the full Monster Energy Honda Team back in action for Round Three of the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship. There won’t be any beach or holidays for the riders this summer, but they can, however, look forward to plenty of sand at the races.
Kevin Benavides, Paulo Gonçalves, Joan Barreda, Ricky Brabec and Nacho Cornejo, the five riders of the Monster Energy Honda Team, are en route to Chile this week to take part in the Atacama Rally whose points count towards the FIM Cross-Country Rallies World Championship.
Four...
segunda-feira, 6 de agosto de 2018
Russian driver Vladimir Vasilyev and Spaniard Xavier ‘Xevi’ Pons will represent Overdrive Racing in this weekend’s HunGarian Baja, round eight of the 2018 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies.
The 48-year-old Russian claimed victory in the 2014 FIA World Cup. Recent outright success at Spain’s Baja Aragón Teruel - on his first appearance with Overdrive Racing at the wheel of a Toyota Hilux - has lifted the G-Energy Team driver to within...
domingo, 5 de agosto de 2018
Exciting new desert Baja to run out of Aqaba into Wadi Rum area of Jordan
Jordan Motorsport has proudly announced the new 2018 Jordan Baja, the Hashemite Kingdom’s first entry into the world of cross-country rallying since the Marlboro BP 2000 Desert Challenge ran in 1987, 1988 and 1990. The three-day off-road event for cars, motorcycles and quads will take place in the stunning Wadi Rum area on September 27-29.
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