2011 Dakar Rally

[Christophe Berton]

Central thread for the Dakar Rally 2011. Post all your Dakar news in here

MONSTER ENERGY X-RAID TEAM UNVEILS MINI ALL4 RACING FOR WORLD DEBUT ON GRUELLING 2011 DAKAR RALLY IN SOUTH AMERICA
New MINI All4 Racing unveiled after 90 days from start of project
Chicherit and Périn set to drive new MINI All4 Racing
Magna-Steyr, Heggemann and Faster boost MINI project
TÜV Rheinland to support Monster Energy X-raid Team

TREBUR (Germany): The X-raid Team unveiled an exciting new cross-country motor sport programme to run and develop the MINI All4 Racing in international competition.
The project was first discussed in the summer of 2009 and the competitive debut of the new MINI All4 Racing will be in the hands of the French rally crew of Guerlain Chicherit and co-driver Michel Périn in January’s 33rd Personal Dakar Argentina-Chile. The event starts in Buenos Aires on New Year’s Day and finishes in the Argentine capital on Sunday, January 16th, 2011.
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[ufunacaoenn]

Once I read the article I started to imagen mini's sinking in to the sand.

I know, it looks like I have no fath in the Mini but I actualy do and I think it's great ot see such historical car get a new shape up and in to Dakar.

 

[Aaron DeMarre]

Very cool, I like the way BMW is headed with the Mini brand.

 

[Christophe Berton]

Volvo is coming in 2011

Now it´s official: Volvo is going to start in the Rallyraid-Sport. But not as official work-team: Volvo of Sweden is supporting the private "Pewano Team", which is building two Volvo XC60 CC. Head of the project is Pelle Wallentheim, a motorsport-specialist in Rally and STCC-Touring Car Championship.

The both Volvo are based on a tubular frame with carbon-skin and will be powered by a Volvo 2,4 litres-engine. "We are working on the Project for 1,5 years" Wallentheim told the Swedish Television SVT. "The cars are built in Gothenburg. Our main goal is the Dakar Rally 2012, but we will start in 2011 in the FIA Cross Country World Cup in different rallies."

As team-manager the team involved the Swedish navigator Tina Thoerner. While Pelle Wallentheim will drive the first car together with Olle Ohlsson, the second car will be navigated by Tina Thoerner. But better: The team is talking about a "Comeback" of Jutta Kleinschmidt. "This sport is dominated by men" Wallentheim told, "so we want to go our way with a women-team."

The XC60 CC will not be the first Volvo at the Dakar Rally. After a "Lapplander" in the 80s, in 2003 a team from Norway startet with a prepared Volvo Station Wagon, but failed. In 2005 they tried to start again, but the Volvo fell down from the Trailer during the transport to Barcelona, so the Norwegian team rented a "Matzker Land Rover" in Germany - and reached the finish line.

 

[Christophe Berton]

Mini4All

3D view

 

[Christophe Berton]

Tim Coronel presents the McRae Buggy

 

[Christophe Berton]

The cars can be pick up by the teams in the port.

 

[Lee Palmer]

Haven't really followed Dakar for a few years. Would be great if somone can keep this thread upto date with news? Would love to follow it.

 

[Ondrej Kapal]

car looks stunning

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Haven't really followed Dakar for a few years. Would be great if somone can keep this thread upto date with news? Would love to follow it.

That will happen, can't wait to check out the daily broadcasts here on Dutch tv

 

[Christophe Berton]

Some articles:

KTM is ready
Former F1-Pilot Eliseo Salazar in second Gordon Hummer.
The bleu kamaz

 

[Christophe Berton]

Good morning of tim Coronel, go go tim

 

[Christophe Berton]

new dakar site http://www.dakar.com/

 

[Christophe Berton]

robby gordon

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Let's see if he can keep his equipement nicely in shape this year

 

[Christopher Aponte]

Robbie Gordon is still the underdog that i would love to see in victory lane...love his driving style...hopefully this year

btw....Tim Coronel posted this
if anyone is interested, there is a live broadcast of day one on a local tv station that can be seen here
http://www.raceteevee.com/

 

[David Garcia]

Can´t wait for the dailly reviews! By the way... GO TOM GO! What a superb guy!

 

[Christophe Berton]

Can´t wait for the dailly reviews! By the way... GO TOM GO! What a superb guy!

it's Tim

daily reviews on www.timcoronel.nl

en Facebook

btw roby gordon drove crazy yesterday.
Lucky he can control his car and nothing happend

 

[Christophe Berton]

whats happening today for the trucks !!!!!

Wuf (ned) out
De Rooy out
Becx probly also out

bad day for the Dutch truck


Tim 32 at WP7 whoehoe

cars:
1, sainz
2, peterh
3, All Atti

Bikes
1, Faria ---> watercary man for despres
2, despres
3, coma

 

[Christopher Aponte]

Wuf crashed on the highway heading to the start of the race (swayed maybe to late to avoid a foreign metal object on the road)
De Rooy asked for medical assistance....it might be his back again :S