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Rally dos Sertões: More than 100 car and truck competitors in Brazilian rally.

Dunas Race, organizer of [ RALLY DOS SERTOES ] in Brazil, released the entry list for the 22th edition in the categories Cars and Trucks. The event, which will have its start on August 24th in Goiânia and the arrival on the 30th in Belo Horizonte, will feature 45 vehicles and 90 competitors between cars and five trucks and 12 competitors in the category of "giants "of the rally.

The Entry list can be seen [ HERE ]. Apart from cars and trucks, the Sertões also has the contest categories motorbikes, quads and UTVs and will soon be disclosed the subscribers list.

Among the cars a lot of newness and expectation of a fierce fight between the top names in the national off-road. In the main category, the FIA T1, there will be four "super machines" and the strong Brazilian teams will accelerate the for the championship title.

Biggest winner of the race in the car category, the four-time champion Guilherme Spinelli from Brazil is one of them. After two runner-ups followed, besides the browser Youssef Haddad in the Mitsubishi Petrobras team, they want the title back. Partners for five years, they won two Sertões and hope to repeat it this season with the model Mitsubishi ASX Racing.

But for that, they will have to overcome other weight pairs: Reinaldo Varela, holder of a rally world title and also Rally dos Sertões champion, will be the browser side Gustavo Gugelmin to the staff Divino Fogao Rally Team / Overdrive with a Toyota Hilux; the staff of South Africa Rally X / NWM also arrives strong enough to fight with Mark Baumgart / Kleber Cincea and Cristian Baumgart / Alley Andreotti, with Ford Ranger models.

In Prototypes categories - T1 and T3 will be 11 vehicles, including the current champions Rafael and João Antonio Franciosi Capoani, which run through the Mitsubishi Ralliart Team Brasil with a L200 Triton SR. In Super Production, Glauber Fontoura and Minae Miyauti will also defend the current championship aboard a Mitsubishi Triton ERS. Already in Pro Brasil, will be eight cars in the race, with various brands and prototypes.

With three entered the Production - T2 will have one of the novelties this year: The return of the Suzuki competition. The brand - which won the first title of the Rally between cars in 1995 - have two pairs: Julian Diener / Gilson Rocha and Marcelo Mendes / Luis Felipe Eckel, who will pilot a Suzuki Jimny. The other car in the race category will be a Toyota FJ Cruiser dual Kffuri Marcus and Rodrigo Czech.

And closing the modality cars, the big highlight is the new Production category T2/TR4, which will feature 11 cars in competition. Created to encourage the rally base in the country, it attracted a good number of participants, which was the initial goal of Dunas Race to launch the project.

The truck category, which always draws attention wherever goes and surprises with the speed of these "giants" of the Rally, has five teams entered, two triples and three doubles. Two six-time champion are among the favorites: Edu Piano - current champion - will be aboard a Ford Cargo 1933 4x4 beside Solon Mendes and Antonio Carlos de Sales; and Guido Salvini Netto, who was the second place in 2013, shares the Mercedes Benz Atego 1725 4x4 with browsers Fernando and Flavio Bisi Chwaigert.

The modality will still have three teams with trucks Ford F4000: Fábio Freire / Fabio Rocha, Felicio Bragante / Ricardo Costa and Garcia Kenner / Rafael Dal Bello.

In addition to Goiânia and Belo Horizonte, five cities will receive the caravan Sertões in 2014. Of these five, three are to host the rally for the first time, Catalão (GO), Paracatu (MG) and São Francisco (MG). Complete the route, Caldas Novas (GO) and Diamantina (MG), which have received the Sertões in other editions.

Before leaving for the special stage, the competitors still compete at the prologue in Goiania on August 23rd, with the promotional start in the same evening, at the renovated International Goiania speedway.

Schedule Dos Sertões Rally Brazil 2014

23/08 - Prologue - Goiânia (GO)
24/08 - SS01 - Goiânia (GO) / Caldas Novas (GO)
25/08 - SS02 - Caldas Novas (GO) / Catalão (GO)
08/26 - SS03 - Catalão (GO) / Paracatu (MG)
27/08 - SS04 - Paracatu (MG) / San Francisco (MG)
28/08 - SS05 - San Francisco (MG) / Diamantina (MG) - MARATHON
29/08 - SS06 - Diamantina (MG) / Diamantina (MG)
30/08 - SS07 - Diamantina (MG) / Belo Horizonte (MG) 

L’histoire des Grands Prix Moto à Brno : Ce qu’il faut savoir /

Le Grand Prix bwin de République Tchèque 2014 sera le 45e GP organisé à Brno.

- Le seul circuit à avoir accueilli plus de Grands Prix que Brno est le circuit d'Assen, aux Pays-Bas, où a eu lieu le TT Assen à chacune des 66 années de l'histoire du Championnat du Monde.

- Le premier GP de Tchécoslovaquie eut lieu à Brno en 1965. Mike Hailwood (MV Agusta) s'imposa alors en 500cc dans une course de 13 tours, sur un circuit de 13.94 km, en un temps d'1h, 11m et 23.2s

- Le circuit a été raccourci à 10.92 km en 1975 afin de garantir plus de sécurité.

- La dernière course de la catégorie reine sur circuit de routes à Brno eut lieu en 1977 et fut remportée par Johnny Cecotto sur Yamaha. Le circuit fut ensuite jugé trop dangereux pour les machines de grosse cylindrée.

- Les machines de plus petites cylindrées continuèrent à courir sur le tracé de routes jusqu'en 1982, avant que l'épreuve ne soit retirée du calendrier des Grands Prix, pour des raisons de sécurité.

- Le circuit actuel de Brno fut utilisé pour la première fois en Grand Prix en 1987 et a accueilli le GP de Tchécoslovaquie jusqu'en 1991. L'épreuve de Brno était absente du calendrier en 1992 mais revint en 1993 en tant que GP de République Tchèque et a depuis eu lieu chaque année.

- Le circuit actuel accueille son 27e Grand Prix cette année et n'a pas connu beaucoup de changements : quelques petites modifications furent apportées au tracé en 1996, lorsque la longueur passa de 5.394 à 5.403 km.

- Depuis l'introduction des MotoGP™ 4-temps en 2002, Yamaha et Honda ont tous les deux remporté cinq victoires à Brno et Ducati, deux. Les pilotes Honda se sont imposés à Brno ces trois dernières années après la victoire de Jorge Lorenzo avec Yamaha en 2010.

- Un seul pilote tchèque est monté sur le podium du circuit actuel de Brno : Lukas Pesek, troisième en 125cc en 2007, avec une Derbi.

- Le meilleur résultat tchèque en MotoGP™ à Brno est la neuvième place de Karel Abraham en 2012.

- Les deux pilotes qui ont remporté le plus de victoires à Brno sont Max Biaggi (4 x 250cc, 2 x 500cc, 1 x MotoGP) et Valentino Rossi (1x 125cc, 1 x 250cc, 1 x 500cc, 4 x MotoGP), avec sept victoires chacun.

This year’s bwin Grand Prix České republiky will be the 45th GP to be held at Brno.

Below is a brief history of Grand Prix racing at this famous venue:

- The only venue that has hosted more Grand Prix events than Brno is Assen in The Netherlands, which has hosted the Dutch TT in each of the 66 years of the motorcycling World Championship.

- The first Czechoslovakian Grand Prix was held at Brno in 1965. The 500cc race held over 13 laps of the original 13.94 km long road circuit was won by Mike Hailwood (MV Agusta) in a time of 1hr 11 min 23.2 sec.

- The circuit was shortened to 10.92 km in 1975 in an effort to improve safety.

- The last premier class race held on the road circuit at Brno was in 1977 and was won by Johnny Cecotto riding a Yamaha. The circuit was subsequently considered too dangerous for the large capacity machines.

- The smaller capacity machines continued to compete in Grand Prix races on the Brno road circuit until 1982 before it was removed from the Grand Prix calendar for safety reasons.

- The current circuit was first used for Grand Prix racing in 1987 and hosted the Czechoslovakian GP through until 1991. Brno did not appear on the calendar for 1992, but the event was revived in 1993 as the Grand Prix of the Czech Republic and has taken place every year since.

- This will be the 27th time that the current circuit has hosted a Grand Prix event, during which time the circuit has remained virtually unchanged; minor modifications were made to the circuit in 1996 which extended the length from 5.394 km to the current 5.403 km.

- Since the introduction of the four-stroke MotoGP™ class in 2002, both Yamaha and Honda have had five victories at Brno and Ducati have had two. Honda riders have won at Brno for the last three years, the last Yamaha win was with Jorge Lorenzo in 2010.

- There has only been one podium finish by a Czech rider at the current Brno circuit across all classes – Lukas Pesek’s third place in the 125cc race in 2007 riding a Derbi.

- The best result by a Czech rider in the MotoGP class at the Brno circuit is Karel Abraham’s ninth place finish in 2012.

- The two riders with most Grand Prix wins at the current Brno circuit, each with seven wins, are Max Biaggi (4 x 250cc, 2 x 500cc, 1 x MotoGP) and Valentino Rossi (1x 125cc, 1 x 250cc, 1 x 500cc, 4 x MotoGP).

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