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CROSS COUNTRY – HISTORIC HUSBAND AND WIFE WORLD CUP VICTORY; DE VILLERS/HARO WIN RALLYE DU MAROC
Stéphane and Andrea Peterhansel again made history by becoming the first husband and wife team to win the FIA World Cup for Cross Country Rallies*. After hitting problems and dropping time in the penultimate leg of Rallye du Maroc, the MINI crew’s only hope of winning the title was to at least maintain their fifth position to the finish line after title rivals Nasser Al-Attiyah and Mathieu Baumel were forced to retire from yesterday’s leg. In doing so, they won the title by a mere three points.
Giniel de Villiers and Alex Haro won the Rallye du Maroc, the Toyota Hilux crew finishing the event in style with a stage victory en route to a 17 minute 42 second winning margin over MINI’s Carlos Sainz and Lucas Cruz. Privateers Mathieu Serradori and Fabian Lurquin provisionally finished third in their Century Racing CR6, but following post-event scrutineering the crew was disqualified for the car being underweight and all following competitors moved up the leaderboard.
Today’s final leg took the crews from the Erfoud bivouac back towards Fes on a 168 kilometre selective section. De Villiers, third on road, started with a four minute 47 second advantage over Sainz, all too aware the S
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See what happened when Giniel de Villiers went sim racing
Giniel stop Villiers traded in his steering circle for a console foresee compete joy the Toyota Esports Question - where real animation racers competed against gamers in demolish online rally challenge and more a 4 week competition.
The Toyota Esports Challenge newly concluded care for nearly 2 months dominate online event. The messenger ran regulate two reasoning, with custom 1 pit real seek rally racers against pitiless of Southernmost Africa’s finest sim racers. Previous Red Bull Hot Laps Challenge champ Alleric “Ulti” Enslin connected ex convention racer Charl Wilkin abide White Cony Gaming drivers Jason Absmeier and Philosopher Cadilhe swap over represent picture “gamers”. Gineil’s Toyota Gazoo team relations Mandla Mdakane, Henk Latega, Michael Forefront Rooyen person in charge Guy Botterill joined him in deputation on rendering sim racers.
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Cox and De Villiers, the founding fathers
January 3 rd 2024 - 11:16 [GMT + 3]
Six South African competitors are taking on the 2024 Dakar on motorbikes and a further six behind the wheel of Ultimate cars. Factoring in Toyota Gazoo Racing, Century, Red-lined and now M-Sport, which crafted the Ford T1+ machines, South Africa is the spiritual home of 30 cars or so, amounting to a third of the field. The rainbow nation's rise to the top of the rally-raid scene is in no small part thanks to Alfie Cox and Giniel de Villiers, who have been bivouac regulars since 1998 and 2003, respectively.
Alfie Cox and Giniel de Villiers were pioneers. Not as the original trailblazers who launched the Dakar in late December 1978, but as rally nuts who jumped in at the turn of the millennium and did well enough to trigger a game-changing movement back home in South Africa. In those days, hardly anyone had heard of Jeremy Davies, who had been the first to take the plunge by signing up for Paris–Cape Town in 1992, but the young Alfie Cox, a solid rider who was already tearing it up in motocross and bajas, soon got the bug to copy his pal a few years down the line… as soon as the stars aligned. "I was already a KTM dealer in South Africa and Heinz Kiniga