Motors & Soul

Voici un an Virage8 organisait son premier Run en Vallée de Chevreuse. Depuis lors, ces Runs, Rides et Balades ont accueilli un nombre croissant de participants. Pour fêter ce premier anniversaire, ils ont décidé d'organiser une rencontre à la hauteur de l'événement. Les 6 et 7 septembre prochains, le Château de Villiers situé à une quarantaine de kilomètres au sud de Paris sera le lieu de rendez-vous des amateurs de motos et d’autos de caractère. Passion, partage et plaisir seront nos maîtres mots. Au programme, des balades, une exposition des plus belles motos et autos de caractère, des artistes, un concert de blues-rock, et de nombreuses autres activités. Un week-end d’Art de vivre la moto et l’auto de caractère unique en région parisienne.

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Rally dos Sertões: Marc Coma wins again in Bikes and remains the leadership. / Stagewin for Toyota´s Varela in S3 but Spinelli still leader.

A hard and technique special in the third stage of the 22nd edition of the "Rally dos Sertões" was disputed on Tuesday (26th). Starting from Catalão, the stage finished in Paracatu, which receives the Rally for the first time in history. There were 360.45 km in total, with the largest special edition disputed so far in 2014 (209.86 kilometers).

In bikes, the Spaniard Marc Coma (KTM Red Bull Factory Team) won again. The leader of the FIM World Cross Country Rally and the Rally dos Sertões champion in 2010 closed the special with the time of 02:36:10 hours. The Brazilian Jean Azevedo (Honda Mobil de Rally) was the first runner-up, followed by the Portuguese Paulo Gonçalves (Team Honda HRC).

Overall, Coma - who also won the 1st stage - leads with 05:18:37, 3:19 minutes lead to Gonçalves and 3:34 mins to Azevedo. Thirty-six motorcycles remain in the dispute. "It was a little bigger stage, a hard day, where I was trying to take as much time to recover. It was a good stage, but always difficult to find an appropriate pace," said Coma.

For the experienced Jean Azevedo, who is disputing his 19th Sertões, it was a day with the characteristics of the event. "It was a longer day, with characteristics similar to those of yesterday, with less bumps, curves and slow sections. It was a typical day of Sertões and fun to ride," Azevedo said.

Fourteen quads completed the 3rd stage on Tuesday. The Brazilian Marcelo Medeiros (Taguatur Racing), who had won the prologue in Goiânia, got the victory in the 3rd stage with the time to 02:46:58 hours. With the result, the rider also took the overall leadership with 1:57 minutes advantage for Robert Nahas (RNN Sports), who finished fourth on Tuesday, and 3:45 mins ahead of Polish Rafal Sonik (Sonik Team), who was third in the day.

Twenty UTVs remain in the fight for the title of the Rally dos Sertões. The victory in the 3rd stage was with André Sawaya and Eduardo Costa (S2 Rally / Bike Box), who recorded the time of 02:51:02 hours. The category is also well balanced and not repeated winners in the first stages.

Denisio Casarini and Eduardo Shiga (Casarini Can-Am) were the first runner-up and are in the overall leadership, but with the duo Rodrigo Varela / John Arena (Divine Stove Rally Team) just 30 seconds behind.

On Tuesday´s 3rd stage of the Brazilian "Rally dos Sertoes", the competitors departed in the morning of Catalão, Goiás State, and finished the stage in Paracatu, town of Minas Gerais State that receives the largest rally in Brazil for the first time. There were 360 km in total and a special test of 209.86 km.

In cars, the duo Reinaldo Varela and Gustavo Gugelmin (Overdrive Toyota Hilux) won the stage with the time of 02:34:29 hours. "Today, the car went well, we finished first and we could reduce the difference for the leaders. Now, we have to be prepared for the marathon stage", said the two time World Cross Country Rally Champion Varela, who is overall 7:28 minutes behind the leaders.

Cristian Baumgart and Beco Andreotti (X-Rally Team / NWM Ford Ranger) finished second, with Guilherme Spinelli and Youssef Haddad (Mitsubishi Petrobras) in the third place. Marcos Baumgart and Kleber Cincea (NWM Ford Ranger) were fourth. Spinelli and Youssef remain in the overall leadership, with the advantage of 2:47 minutes to Baumgart and Andreotti.

In the trucks, six-time Rally dos Sertões champion, Edu Piano and the co-drivers Solon Mendes and Antonio Carlos de Sales (Ford F4000 / Território Motorsport) won the third stage in a row. They are in the overall lead, with 13:14 mins advantage for Kenner Garcia / Rafael Dal Bello / Raphael Bettoni (Ford F4000), fourth on the stage today.

On Wednesday (27th), the competitors depart towards São Francisco (Minas Gerais State) in the dispute of the 4th stage of the Rally dos Sertões 2014. There will be 585.30 km in total on the fourth day (135.24 km of initial liaison, 363.85 km of special and 86.21 km of final liaison).

Between Goiânia and Belo Horizonte, Sertões will go through five more cities. Three will host the rally for the first time: Catalão, Paracatu and São Francisco. Caldas Novas and Diamantina complete the route.
via www.marathonrally.com

Dakar 2015 : les premiers essais du Peugeot 2008 DKR

A 6 mois du départ du Dakar 2015, le 2008 DKR dévoile de nouvelles caractéristiques à l'occasion de ses premiers essais officiels, avec un V6 diesel biturbo chargé d'animer les deux roues motrices.


Un buggy V6 diesel 4x2
En action en photo et vidéo, le 2008 DKR a effectué ses premiers roulages le 27 juin du côté de Freneuse, dans les Yvelines, sur un terrain boueux mais offrant des tests de franchissement et de motricité. Justement, Peugeot réaffirme avec conviction son choix d'opter pour une transmission à deux roues motrices contre les traditionnelles 4x4.


Selon le constructeur français, ce choix radical permettrait d'alléger considérablement le bolide - "le poids est l'ennemi de la performance" rappelle le responsable projet Jean-Christophe Pallier - d'augmenter la taille des roues à 37 pouces, ainsi que celles des suspensions passant de 250 à 480 mm de débattement.

Peugeot précise que le choix du 4x2 offre un autre avantage, celui de choisir la pression des pneus via un "télé-gonflage" dans l'habitacle afin de gérer rapidement les différents obstacles et surfaces.

Autre confirmation de l'équipe, celle du moteur, qui sera un diesel V6 biturbo, de cylindrée et de puissance inconnues. Ainsi, le but de Peugeot Sport est de faire du 2008 DKR "la première deux roues motrices à motorisation diesel à gagner le Dakar."


Pour rappel, le Peugeot 2008 DKR sera pilotée par l'Espagnol Carlos Sainz - auteur des essais ici en images - ainsi que par les Français Stéphane Peterhansel et Cyril Despres, dans l'édition 2015 du Dakar se disputant du 4 au 17 janvier.

Source sur MYTF1 : Dakar 2015 : les premiers essais du Peugeot 2008 DKR en photos et vidéo

 

 

Baja Poland: Overdrive Racing with five Toyota Hilux and Nasser Al Attiyah.

The Belgian Overdrive Racing Team continues its hectic August by entering five Toyota Hilux in this weekend’s "Baja Poland", round eight of the 2014 FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies. The three-day Polish event is an important one for the Overdrive Team for three different reasons and takes place on August 29-31.

Qatar’s Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah and his French navigator Matthieu Baumel are chasing outright honours in this year’s FIA World Cup, the Polish Team Orlen quartet of Marek Dabrowski/Jacek Czachor and Adam Malysz/Rafal Marton will be hoping to reach the podium on their home round of the championship and the talented Dutchman Bernhard Ten Brinke joins the team for the first time with Belgian co-driver Tom Colsoul to begin their preparations for the 2015 Dakar Rally.

Polish driver Tadeusz ‘Taddy’ Blazusiak drives the third Team Orlen car under the Overdrive Racing banner and is partnered by the Frenchman Edouard Boulanger. The 31-year-old Pole is an esteemed motorcycle rider in trials, enduro and endurocross and is a five-time winner of the Erzberg Rodeo, a four-time champion in the FIM Indoor Enduro World Cup and a winner of the AMA EnduroCross title on five occasions. He has also won four Moto X Enduro gold medals and a bronze at the X Games.

The Overdrive Racing team is also taking part in this week’s 22nd "Rally dos Sertões" in Brazil with the local duo of Reinaldo Varela and Gustavo Gugelmin. The pair won the Prologue and the first of the selective sections on Sunday. This event reaches its conclusion on Saturday, August 30th.

The team also plans to enter one Toyota Hilux in the exciting "Great China Rally", which takes place at the start of September and has been organised by the Chinese in collaboration with former Dakar Rally chief organiser and consultant Hubert Auriol. The experienced Zhou Yong will drive the car. He has already taken part in several Dakar rallies.

Al-Attiyah and Baumel sealed a dramatic last stage win in the "Hungarian Baja" two weeks ago and know that a second successive outright victory would give them a superb chance of overhauling Vladimir Vasilyev at the top of the FIA World Cup standings with two more rallies to follow in Morocco and Portugal.

Dabrowski finished eighth two weeks ago after earlier delays and Malysz will be hoping to bounce back from a disappointing outing in Hungary. Overdrive Racing’s team director Jean-Marc Fortin announced Ten Brinke was joining the team last month and the Dutchman is relishing his opportunity to work with the Belgian team in Poland.

"This is an important rally for everyone connected with our team," said Jean-Marc Fortin. "Nasser needs to keep the momentum going if he is to win the FIA World Cup for the second time and both Marek and Adam will want to perform well in front of their home supporters and hopefully, challenge for the podium. It is great to have Bernhard and Tom in the team and we wish them well and are confident that they will be competitive from the start. We also give a warm welcome to Taddy and Edouard and look forward to working with them this weekend."

In addition to FIA World Cup leader Vasilyev, the Overdrive Racing quartet face a fierce challenge from the likes of Czech driver Miroslav Zapletal and strong Polish rivals, Martin Kaczmarski and Krzysztof Holowczyc.

In 2012, Overdrive Racing only fielded two cars in Poland for Szymon Ruta and the Hungarian Erik Korda, but the team enjoyed a superb result last year, with Russian Aleksandr Zheludov claiming the outright win from Dabrowski. Malysz finished fourth and a time penalty cost Nunzio Coffaro a potential second place and he reached the finish in fifth to give Overdrive Racing four cars in the top five.

The competition gets underway on Friday evening with the start ceremony at the Sports and Entertainment Arena in Szczecin Bezrzecze at 17.30hrs (CET) and this will be followed by an 8.00km Prologue stage, starting at 18.00hrs.

The first of the longer selective sections (Drawsko Pomorskie 192 km) gets underway at 08:00 hrs on Saturday morning and this will be repeated from 14:00 in the afternoon. A shorter 65 km selective section (Dobra) is run on two occasions on Sunday morning (09:15) and early afternoon (13:15) and the podium finish is planned for 15:30. In a total route of 795.50 km, there will be 522 km of competition.